as express companies as fully as if such persons, companies or corporations were specially named and designated therein.

The commission has jurisdiction over every person or corporation operating any railroad or express business in the state.

Digest, 1904, sec. 6002.

See Kirby's

The commission also has jurisdiction over sleeping car companies. See Acts 1907, no. 422, sec. 4.

CALIFORNIA

Every private corporation, and every individual or association. of individuals, owning, operating, managing or controlling any commercial railroad, interurban railroad, street railroad, canal, pipe line, plant, or equipment, within this state for the transportation or conveyance of passengers, or express matter, or freight of any kind, including crude oil, or for the transmission of telephone or telegraph messages, or for the production, generation, transmission, delivery or furnishing of heat, light, water, or power, or for the furnishing of storage or wharfage facilities, either directly or indirectly, to or for the public, and every common carrier, is hereby declared to be a public utility subject to such control and regulation by the railroad commission as may be provided by the legislature, and every class of private corporations, individuals, or associations of individuals hereafter declared by the legislature to be public utilities shall likewise be subject to such control and regulation. The railroad commission shall have and exercise such power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate public utilities, in the state of California, and to fix the rates to be charged for commodities furnished or services. rendered by public utilities as shall be conferred upon it by the legislature, and the right of the legislature to confer powers upon the railroad commission respecting public utilities is hereby declared to be plenary and to be unlimited by any provision of this constitution. From and after the passage by the legislature of laws conferring powers upon the railroad commission respecting public utilities, all powers respecting such public utilities vested in boards of supervisors, or municipal councils, or other governing bodies of the several counties, cities and counties, cities and towns in this state, or in any commission created by law and existing at the time of the passage of such laws, shall cease so far as such powers shall conflict with the powers so conferred upon the railroad commission; provided, however, that this section shall not affect such powers of control over any public utility vested in any city or county or incorporated city or town as, at an election to be held pursuant to laws to be passed hereafter by

the legislature, a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon of city and county, or incorporated city or town, shall vote to retain, and until such election such powers shall continue unimpaired; but if the vote so taken shall not favor the continuation of such powers they shall thereafter vest in the railroad commission as provided by law; and provided, further, that where any such city and county or incorporated city or town shall have elected to continue any powers respecting public utilities, it may, by vote of a majority of its qualified electors voting thereon, thereafter surrender such powers to the railroad commission in the manner to be prescribed by the legislature; or if such municipal corporation shall have surrendered any powers to the railroad commission, it may, by like vote, thereafter reinvest itself with such power. Const., art. xii, sec. 23.

See also sec. 82, ch. 14, and Stats. 1911, 1st ex. sess. secs. I to 10, ch. 40.

DEFINITIONS.

STATS. 1911, IST EX. SESS., CH. 14, SEC. 2.

Definitions of the following terms are substantially indentical with definitions of same terms in Arizona, Session Laws 1912, ch. 90, sec. 2: Corporation, electrical corporation, electric plant, express corporation, gas corporation, gas plant, person, pipe line, pipe line corporation, railroad corporation, street railroad, street railroad corporation, telegraph corporation, telegraph line, telephone corporation, telephone line, transportation of persons, transportation of property, water corporation, water system.

Common carrier includes every railroad corporation; street railroad corporation; express corporation, dispatch, sleeping car, dining car, drawing room car, freight, freight-line, refrigerator, oil, stock, fruit, car loaning, car renting, car loading and every other car corporation or person, their lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, operating for compensation within this state; and every corporation or person, their lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, controlling, operating or managing any vessel regularly engaged in the transportation of persons or property for compensation upon the waters of this state or upon the high seas, over regular routes between points within this state.

Public utility includes every common carrier, pipe-line corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, wharfinger and warehouseman, as those terms are defined in this section, and each thereof is hereby declared to be a public utility and to be subject to the jurisdiction, control and regulation of the commission and to the provisions of this act.

Railroad includes every commerical, interurban and other railway, other than a street railroad, and each and every branch or extension thereof, by whatsoever power operated, together with all tracks, bridges, trestles, rights of way, subways, tunnels, stations, depots, union depots, ferries, yards, grounds, terminals, terminal facilities, structures and equipment, and all other real estate, fixtures and personal property of every kind used in connection therewith, owned, controlled, operated or managed for public use in the transportation of persons or property.

Vessel includes every species of water craft, by whatsoever power operated which is owned, controlled, operated or managed for public use in the transportation of persons or property.

Wharfinger includes every corporation or person, their lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees, appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, controlling, operating or managing any dock, wharf or structure used by vessels in connection with or to facilitate the receipt or discharge of freight or passengers for compensation within this state.

COLORADO

The provisions of this act shall apply to any corporation or to any person or persons who shall be held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this act, and.to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by railroad from one point or place within the state to any other point or place within the state. Laws 1910, sp. sess., ch. 5, sec. I.

This act shall not apply to the ownership or operation of street railways conducted solely as common carriers in the transportation of passengers within the limits of cities and towns. Same.

DEFINITIONS:

LAWS 1910, SP. SESS., CH. 5, SEC. 2.

Common carriers shall also include express companies, private freight car lines and pipe lines.

Railroad shall include all bridges used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the roads in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract, agreement or lease; and shall also include all switches, spurs, tracks and terminal facilities of every kind used or necessary in the transportation of the persons or property designated herein, and also all freight depots, yards and grounds used or necessary in the transportation of the persons or property designated herein, and also all freight depots, yards and grounds, used or necessary in the transportation or delivery of any of said property.

Transportation shall include all cars, and all other vehicles and instrumentalities and facilities of a shipment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or of any contract, express or implied, for the use thereof, and all service in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, demurrage, storing or handling of property transported; and it shall be the duty of every common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, to provide and furnish such transportation upon reasonable request therefor, and to establish through routes and just and reasonable rates applicable thereto, and to provide a sufficient number of cars, and a reasonable time schedule for trains.

CONNECTICUT

Commission has jurisdiction over public service companies as

defined.

DEFINITIONS.

PUB. ACTS 1911, CH. 128, SEC. I.

Electric company shall include every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership, or person, or lessee thereof, owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing, or controlling poles, wires, conduits, or other fixtures, along public highways or streets, for the transmission or distribution of electric current for sale for light, heat, or power within this state, or engaged in generating electricity to be so transmitted or distributed for such purpose.

Gas company shall include every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership or person, or lessee thereof, owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing, or controlling mains, pipes or other fixtures, in public highways or streets, for the transmission or distribution of gas for sale for light, heat, or power within this state, or engaged in the manufacture of gas to be so transmitted or distributed for such purpose.

Plant shall include all real estate, buildings, tracks, pipes, mains, poles, wires, and other fixed or stationary construction and equipment, wherever located, used in the conduct of the business of the company.

Public service company shall include all common carriers, railroad, street railway, electric, gas, telephone, telegraph, and water companies owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing, or controlling plants, or parts of plants, or equipment, and all express companies having special privileges on railroads or street railways, within this state, but shall not include towns, cities, boroughs, or any municipal corporation or department thereof, whether separately incorporated or not.

Railroad company shall include every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership, or person, or lessee thereof, owning, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling any railroad, or any cars or other equipment employed thereon or in connection therewith, for public or general use within this state.

Street railway company shall include every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership, or person, or lessee thereof, owning, maintaining, operating, managing, or controlling any street railway, or any cars or other equipment employed thereon or in connection therewith, for public or general use within this state.

Water company shall include every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership, or person, or lessee thereof, owning, maintaining, operating, managing, or controlling any pond, lake, reservoir, or distributing plant employed for the purpose of supplying water for general domestic use in any town, city, or borough, or portion thereof, within this state.

DELAWARE

No commission up to 1913.

FLORIDA

The provisions of this chapter1 shall apply to the transportation of passengers and property and to the receiving, delivery, storage and handling of property wholly within this state, and shall apply to all railroad corporations, railroad companies and common carriers en

Includes all of secs. 2882-3633 of Gen. Stats. 1906, as used herein.

gaged in this state in the transportation of passengers or property by the railroads or common carriers therein, from any points within this state to any point within this state. Gen. Stats. 1906, sec. 2890. Commission has power under laws 1911, ch. 6186, sec. 1, to regulate the charges and service within the state of all persons, firms or corporations engaged in or carrying on a telephone business within the state.

All the terms and provisions of this state as embraced in ch. 5,1 tit. 4, div. 4, of the general statutes and all acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof are hereby declared to be of force with reference to all persons, firms or corporations carrying on a telephone business within this state so far as said laws are applicable to such persons, firms or corporations carrying on telephone business within this state. Laws 1911, ch. 6186, sec. 2.

All persons, firms and corporations owning, controlling or operating or that may hereafter own, control or operate a line or lines of telegraph whose line or lines is or are in whole or in part in this state, shall be under the control of the railroad commission of this state. Laws 1911, ch. 6187, sec. 1.

DEFINITIONS.

GEN. STATS. 1906, CH. 5, TIT. 4, DIV. 4.

Common carriers shall be deemed to mean and include: (1) all companies and any person or persons owning and operating railroads wholly or partly within this state; (2) all companies and any person or persons owning and operating steamships engaged in the transportation of freight or passenger from and to ports within this state; (3) all companies and any person or persons owning and operating steamboats used in the transportation of freight or passengers upon the rivers or inland waters of this state; (4) all companies and any person or persons owning or operating railroads, passenger terminals or union depots for the purpose of receiving, delivering or transferring passenger traffic to and from the place or city in which said terminal or union depot may be situated, or to or from one or more of the railroads operating its train service into said terminal or depot from or to any other such railroad or railroads; whenever any steamship or steamboat company owns and operates any barge, canal boat, steam tug, ferry boat or lighter, in connection with its ships or boats, the thing so owned and operated shall be deemed a part of its main line. Sec. 2891.

Railroad shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad operated wholly or in part in this state, all passenger terminal companies or union depot companies whether operating train service or not, and also all the road in use by any corporation, receiver, trustee, or any other person operating a railroad, whether operated under any contract, agreement, lease or otherwise, and the term railroad corporation or railroad company, as used in this act, shall be deemed to mean all corporations, associations, partnerships, trustees, agents, assignees and individuals, all express companies and sleeping car companies included, now owning or operating, or which may hereafter own or operate 1 Includes all of secs. 2882-3633 of Gen. Stats. 1906, as used herein.