Public Utility - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: public utilityPublic utility
Public utility, means usefulness but it is often used to refer to a corporation that performs a public service. Hence rail, roads, airlines, bus lines, gas and electricity corporation are known as public utilities. Public utilities also means public purpose depending upon the context in which it is used in a statute, rules or regulations, Earth Builders v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1997 Bom 148...
Object of general public utility
Object of general public utility, an object beneficial to a section of the public is an object of general public utility. To serve a charitable purpose it is not necessary that the object should be to benefit the whole of mankind or all persons in a particular country or State. It is sufficient if the intention to benefit a section of the public as distinguished from a specified individual is present, Ahmedabad Rana Caste Association v. CIT, AIR 1972 SC 273 (275): (1972) 3 SCC 475....
General public utility
General public utility, The words 'general public utility' contained in the definition of charitable purpose are very wide. These words, as held by the Judicial Committee in the case of All India Spinners Association v. C.I.T., (1944) 12 ITR 482 (PC), exclude objects of private gain. Sole Trustee, Lok Shikshana Trust v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1976 SC 10: (1976) 1 SCC 254: (1976) 1 SCR 863...
public utility
public utility : a business organization (as an electric company) performing a public service and subject to special government regulation ...
utility
utility pl: -ties 1 : fitness for some purpose or worth to some end 2 a : public utility b : a service or commodity provided by a public utility [paid for rent and utilities] ;also : equipment or material used in providing such a service or commodity [an easement limited to purposes of travel which does not include the right to install utilities "Ware v. Public Serv. Co., 412 A.2d 84 (1980)"] 3 pl : stocks or bonds of utility companies [utilities performed poorly] ...
Charitable purpose
Charitable purpose, includes relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any other object of general public utility, but does not include a purpose which relates exclusively to religious teaching or worship. [Charitable Endow-ments Act, 1890 (6 of 1890), s. 2]Means relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any other object of general public utility without the additive words 'not involving the carrying on of any activity for profit', Additional Commissioner of Income Tax v. Surat Art Silk Cloth Manufacturers Association, Surat, (1980) 2 SCR 77: (1980) 2 SCC 31: AIR 1980 SC 387.The definition of 'charitable purposes' in the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953 follows, though not quite, the well-known definition of charity given by Lord Macnaghten in Commissioners for Special Purposes of Income Tax v. Pemsel, (1891) AC 531 (583), where four principal divisions were said to be comprised-trusts for the relief of poverty; trusts for ...
Public interest
Public interest, means an act beneficial to the general public. It means action necessarily taken for public purpose, Babu Ram Verma v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1971) All LJ 653: (1971) Serv LR 649: (1971) 2 Lab LJ 235: (1971) Lab IC 1162 (All).Means of concern or advantage to people as a whole, T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.Means retention of honest and efficient employees and weeding of inefficient and dishonest, Indira Saxena v. Municipal Council, 1995 Jab LJ 28.Means those interests which concern the public at large, Law Lexicon, 2nd Edn., Reprint 2000, at p. 1557). See also T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.Refers to cases where the interests of public adminis-tration require the retirement of a government servant who with the passage of years has pre-maturely ceased to possess the standard of efficiency, competence and utility called for by the government service to which he belongs. No stigmas or implication of misbehav...
rate base
rate base : the total fair value of public utility property that is used in rendering services and that comprises the investment on which a fair rate of return is based in setting utility rates ...
Utility
Utility, means any person or entity engaged in the generation, transmission, sale, distribution or supply, as the case maybe, of energy. [Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act, 1998 (14 of 1998), s. 2 (l)]Means the electric lines or electrical plant, and includes all lands, buildings, works and materials attached thereto belonging to any person acting as a generating company or licensee under the provisions of this Act. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(75)]Means equipment or material used in providing such a service or commodity, Ware v. Public Serv. Co., 412 A. 2d 84 (1980).Means the electric lines or electrical plant, and includes all lands, buildings words and materials attached thereto belonging to any person acting as a generating company or license under the provisions of the Act, Electricity Act, 2003, s. 2(75); A.P. Gas Power Corporation Ltd. v. A.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission, AIR 2006 AP 13....
franchise
franchise [Anglo-French, literally, freedom, liberty, from Middle French, from franchir to free, from Old French franc free] 1 : a special right or privilege granted by the government to an individual, group, or business entity: as a : a right to conduct a business and esp. to be and to exercise the powers of a corporation b : a right granted to a public utility company to provide services and to use public land for that purpose 2 : a constitutional or statutory right ;esp : the right to vote used with the [restricting them in employment, education, the , legal personality, and public accommodation "W. H. Burns"] 3 : a right or license that is granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory under the company's trademark, trade name, or service mark and that often involves the use of rules and procedures designed by the company and services (as advertising) and facilities provided by the company in return for fees, royalties, ...
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