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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>370731</law_id><section_number>56-78</section_number><catch_line>Exclusion from accounts of payments to affiliated companies</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="121" identifier="56">Public Service Companies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="5" identifier="4">Regulation of Relations With Affiliated Interests</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In any proceeding, whether upon the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>&#x2019;s own <span class="dictionary">motion</span> or upon complaint, involving the <span class="dictionary">rates</span> or practices of any <span class="dictionary">public service company</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may exclude in whole or in part from the accounts of such <span class="dictionary">public service company</span> any payment or compensation to an <span class="dictionary">affiliated interest</span> for any services rendered or property or service furnished, as above described, under existing <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> or arrangements with such <span class="dictionary">affiliated interest</span>, if it shall appear and be established upon investigation that such payment or compensation or such <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or arrangement is not consistent with the public interest. In such proceeding any payment or compensation may be disapproved or disallowed by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, in whole or in part, unless satisfactory proof is submitted to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> of the cost to the <span class="dictionary">affiliated interest</span> rendering the service or furnishing the property or service above described.</p></section></text><history>1934, p. 744; Michie Code 1942, &#xA7; 3774d.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
