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cidents. Every public service com pany shall, in the event of any accl- dent attended with personal injury or involving public safety which was or may have been connected with or due to the operation of it's plant or equipment, or caused by contact with it's wires, notify the commission there of, by telephone or otherWlse, as son as may be reasonably possible af- ter the occurrence of such accident. Any company failing to comply with the provisions of this section may De fined not exceeding five hundred dol lars for each offense.
 Sec. IS. Duties of Commission as to Accidents. The commission shall examine into the causes of, and the facts and circumstances connected with, all fatal accidents occurring in the operation of the plant or equip ment of any public service company and such other accidents, whether resulting in personal injury or not, as in it's judgment. shall require in- vestigation. The commission shall make a record of the causes, facts and circumstances of each accident, with in one month thereafter, and as a part of said record, shall suggest means, if possible, whereby similar accidents may be avoided in the fu- ture. Such records shall be open to public inspection at the office of the commission, and copy thereof shall De malled 10 the company dnecteu thereby.
 Sec. 19. Powers of Commission Relative to Electricity and Gas. The office of inspector for gas and gas meters is hereby abolished, and the duties heretofore invested in formed by the commission. The comA mission shall also have power to fix the standard of Illuminating and heating power and purity and quality of gas, and to fix the initial efficien- cy of electric lamps furnished by gas and electric companies, and to inves- tigate and make orders regarding the pressure or voltage at which gas or electricity shall be distributed.
 Sec. 20. Inspection of Meters. Upon petition of any person, and the payment by such person of a fee of one dollar, for each meter, the com mission shall cause to be inspected any electric, gas or water meter of such petitioner. The company sup plying electricity, gas or water through such meter shall reimburse the petitioner for such fees If such per centum fast and shall not again use such meter until corrected and approved by the commission. The commission shall cause to be approV- ed every electric, gas or water me- ter in which the error does not ex-
 
 four per cent. for electric or water meters, and shall cause the same to be stamped with some suitable device and the date of approval.
 Sec. 21. Establishment of Through Routes and Transportation. If the lines of any two or more common carriers or railroad or street railway companies form Cor by the construc- tion and maintenance of switch or other suitable connection could be made to form) a continuous line of transportation, the commission, upon hearing, after due public notice, may authorize or require the establish ment by such companies at joint rates of through routes or transpor- tation for passengers, or for such freight or other property as the com mission may designate; and the com mission may, after due hearing, re- qufre any of such companies to Oper- atet over it's lines cars or other equip ment delivered by any other of such companies: and, if said companies cannot agree as to the division of rates or conditions under which such through routes or transportation shall be esta blished or such cars op- erated, the commission shall have power, after due hearing to deter mine and prescribe the proportion ate portions of such through rates payable to each of said companies
 
 such through routes or transporta- tion, or to the operation of such cars or other equipment.
 Sec. 22. Plant and Equipment To Be Adequate. Any borough, city, or town within which or between which, and any other borough, city or town in this state any public service com pany is furnishing service, or any ten patrons of any such company, may bring 8. written petition to the com mission alleging that the plant or equipment of such company is made Quate or unsuited to the public need. Thereupon the commission shall fix a time and place for a hearing upon such petition, of which it shall mail notice to the parties in interest and give due public notice, at least one week prior thereto. Upon said hearing the commission may, if it finds such plant or equipment to pe inadequate or unsuited to the pub lie need, order. and prescribe such plant or equipment as shall be ade- Quate and suitable, and fix a time within which said company shall con- equipment. It shall thereupon be the duty of such commission to con- struct such plant or obtain such equipment within the time so deter mined.
 Sec. 23. Rates and Service Affect
  city or town within which, or be- | tween which, and any other borough city or town in this state, any pulp lie service company is furnishing ser vice, or any ten patrons of any such company, or any such company fur nislhing service in accordance with or at rates prescribed by an order of the commission may bring a written petition to the commission alleging that the rates or charges of such company, or prescribed by the com mission are unreasonable, or that the service furnished is inadequate to, or exceeds, public necessity and conVen- fence. Thereupon the commission shall fix a time and place for a hear | ing upon such petition, of which # shall mail notice to the parties in in terest and also give due public notice on said hearing the commission may | if it shall find such rates and charges | to be unreasonable, or such service to be inadequate or excessive, deter mine and prescribe an adequate ser vice and just and reasonable maxi mum rates and charges to be there after made by such company. Such company shall thereafter furnish the service so determined or prescribed and shall not thereafter demand any | rate or charge in excess of the max | imum rate or charge so determine ed | and prescribed.
 Sec 24. Rates and Service Affect | ing a Single Person. If any water gas, electric, or telephone company shall unreasonably fail or refuse tc | furnish adequate service at reason able rates to any person within the