Public Utilities: Street Railway Regulation by State Commission in Home Rule City: Permission to Withdraw from Service

1934 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
J. W. C.
Keyword(s):  
Public Utilities ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
State Commission

Public Utilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 417-418
Author(s):  
Richard B. Collins ◽  
Dale A. Oesterle ◽  
Lawrence Friedman
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
The Public ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Privately Owned

This chapter addresses Article XXV of the Colorado Constitution, which governs public utilities. Added in 1954, the article grants the general assembly authority, which it had lacked, to regulate privately owned public utilities operating in home rule cities. It also affirms the general assembly’s power over privately owned utilities located elsewhere in the state and its authority over the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). A bit unusual is the article’s delegation to the PUC of full legislative discretion until the general assembly provides otherwise. This gave the PUC rather open-ended powers for a short time. The general assembly has now preempted the field with specific legislation. Meanwhile, Article XXV’s last phrase states that it does not “apply to municipally owned utilities.” This preserves immunity from legislative, and thus PUC, control.

Public Utilities: Holding Companies: Power of State Commission to Regulate Intercorporate Charges

1935 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 452
Author(s):  
W. A. B.
Keyword(s):  
Public Utilities ◽  
Holding Companies ◽  
State Commission

Central Utilities Commissions and Home Rule: A Paper before the Madison Literary Society, May 9, 1910

1911 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-393
Author(s):  
Balthasar H. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Utilities ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Heat Power ◽  
Interstate Commerce Commission ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interstate Commerce ◽  
Central Commission ◽  
Local Use ◽  
Country Today

The term “public utilities” embraces all properties devoted to a use in which the public has an interest. As currently employed in this country today, it includes water, light, heat, power, and telephone plants; urban, suburban and interurban electric railways; steam railways; the telegraph, express companies and several minor organizations connected with transportation. In a narrower and more local use of the term, its scope is restricted to water, light, heat, power and local telephone utilities, and urban and suburban electric railways.Central utilities commissions are administrative bodies appointed or elected for the purpose of carrying out legislative acts with reference to public utilities. In the widest sense of the term a central commission is a federal or national commission, of which the Interstate Commerce Commission is the best-known representative. Central Commissions, in the narrower sense of the term, are illustrated by state utilities and railroad commissions. Like many other terms central and local have relative meanings with shifting and overlapping circumferences.

Scottish Home Rule: Entering the Second Century

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-269
Author(s):  
David Millar
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Home Rule

Defining Liberalism: the first Home Rule crisis in the Scottish capital

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-30
Author(s):  
M. K. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Traditional Assessment ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Irish Question

The nature of liberalism was at the heart of the political debate surrounding the first Irish Home Rule bill in Edinburgh. The rhetoric of the campaign was dominated by the fight for the ownership of liberalism, and it was pivotal for all the candidates standing in Edinburgh to present themselves as liberals, and to define their stance on the Irish question by associating it to a core value of liberalism. Democracy and the protection of minorities were the two values used to justify the candidates’ stances on Irish Home Rule, and the perceived threat of Irish Catholicism was often the focus of the associated arguments. The discourse that resulted from this justification centred on a fight to define the essence of liberalism. Therefore, the Irish Home Rule debate in Edinburgh demonstrates that the Liberal split was more nuanced than the traditional assessment of a Whig versus Radical split. Instead, the debate on the Irish question signified the struggle of liberalism.

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