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service commissioner, and shall with in sixty days from the organization of said General Assembly, at it's reg ular session in 1915 and within sixty days from the organization of said General Assembly, at its regular ses- sion quadrennially thereafter, nomin- ate and with the advice and consent of the Senate appoint two public service commissioners. The Senate shall act on all such nominations within ten days after they are made. If the governor shall fail to nomin- ate within the sixty days prescrib- ed a person or persons for public service service commissioner or com- miSSiOners, who shall be confirmed by the Senate, the General Assembly shall fill the vacancy or vacancies which would otherwise occur. If any vacancy occurs in said board at a time when the General Assembly Is not in session, the governor shall ap- point a commissioner to fill such va cancy until the rising of the next cies shall be filled for the remainder of the respective terms in the man. her provided in this section.
 Sec. ?. Said commission may eln- ploy such accountants, engineers. in spectors and other experts, agents and employees as may be required for the proper performance of its duties, and shall determine the com pensation to be paid it's employees. Each commissionsioner shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum. The salaries and eX- penses of the commission shall be paid monthly by the treasurer upon the order of the comptroller; provid- ed, that the expenses of the commlS- sion shall not exceed the specific ap- propriatiOn hereafter made from time to time by the General Assembly for +IA Af 1,o r,aic c-in
 Sec. 8. The corporations subject to the provisions of this act shall be all corporations which have corpo- rate powers within this state to es- tabliSh, construct, maintain, or op crate a telephone exchange system for the service of the public in any town, city or borough, or to sell electricity or gas for lighting in any town, city or borough, or to sell wa ter for domestic purposes to the pub lie in any town. city or borough. The term corporations subject to this act" as hereinafter used, shall in clude all trustees, receivers, lessees, or other persons who shall be in pos session of the property of any such corporation. Municipal corpora tions actually selling electricity or gas for lighting to the public, or sell . the public, shall be subject only to the provisions of section four of this act.
 Sec. A. Said commission shall an- nually, on or before the thirty-first day of December, furnish to every corporation subject to the provisions of this act from which such a re- and also municipal corporations de- scribed in the preceding section. du- plicate blanks for a report to be made for the year ending on said thirty-frst day of December. All corporations receiving such blank forms shall return one of them, prop erly filled out, to the commission on or before the fifteenth day of March in each year. Every such re- port shall be signed and sworn to by the president or vice-president and treasurer or assistant treasurer of the corporation making such report or by a majority of the trustees or re- ceivers making the same, or, in the case of a municipal corporation, by the treasurer of the board or com mission having general charge of the sale of electricity or gas or water, or other official having the custody of funds received from such sale Ev- cry corporation, trustee, receiver or municipal treasurer, or other munich pal official, refusing or neglecting to make any such report as required under the provisions of this act shall forfeit to the state twenty-five dol lars for each day of such neglect or refusal, and the commission shall re- port such forfeiture to the state treasurer. All such reports shall be made strictly according ta the forms provided, and all questions shall be fully answered, except where the ans wer would be None" or Nothing" in which case the question itself may be stricken out If it is impractical ble to report all of the items in de- tail as required, the reasons why such details cannot be given shall be stated. but it shall not be an ex- cuse for emitting to give such details are not kept in such manner as will enable it to do so. When any such report seems to the commission de- fectlVe or erroneous, it shall notify the corporation making the report of it's requirement. that such report be amended, and in any such case the report required by law shall be made to the commission within fifteen days from the time of such notification, un- der the same penalty as is provid cd for refusing or neglecting to make such report.
 Section. 5. It shall be the duty ot all corporations subject to this act to render to the public such proper and adequate service, including the provision of facilities therefor as shall be reasonable and just and req sonably compensated, and it shall al so be the duty of such corporations to refrain from eXtortionate, unjust or unreasonable rates and charges for service rendered to the public The provisions of public statutes and Of the charters of such corporation. relating to the service to be render ed or rates to be charged by any such corporation are hereby repealed. Il shall be the duty of all corporations subject to this act to adopt such rea- sonable measures and regulations as are conductive to the public safety and to the safety of their employees Sec. 6. Upon the complaint of any person alleging a violation by anJ Icorporation subject to this act of any
 duty declared or prescribed by the preceding section, the commission in interest, conduct a public inquiry
 as to the truth of the allegations ot | such complaint and if after duly
 nearing all parties in interest the
 commission shall find the allegation. | or such complaint to be true the commission shall recommend in writ. | ing to the corporatiof found to bt Violating such duty, such action as ir
 the opinion of the commission is nee
 essary to secure in the future tho performance by such corporation o-
 the duty thus violated. If such cor. | poratlon shall not thereafter cease from violating such duty. the com | mission shall cause an action to bt brought and prosecuted in the super 1 Tor court for the county of Hartford | by the attorney-general in the nam, 1 or the commission against the of | lending corporation, to enforce it's fu