If upon investigation the rates, tolls, charges, schedules, or joint rates of any public utility operating in this Commonwealth shall be found to be unjust, unreasonable, insufficient or unjustly discriminatory or to be preferential or otherwise in violation of any of the provisions of law, the State Corporation Commission shall have power to fix and order substituted therefor such rate or rates, tolls, charges or schedules as shall be just and reasonable. All rates, tolls, charges or schedules set by the Commission shall be valid only if they are in full conformance with the provisions of this chapter.
Va. Code Ann. § 56-235
When Commission may fix rates, schedules, etc.; conformance with chapter
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Princess Anne Utilities Corp. v. Commonwealth (1971)
Most recently applied in Commonwealth Gas Pipeline Corp. v. Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (April 1987)
Code 1919, § 4071; 1977, c. 336.
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