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    V HSVADA COMF1 Xj£D XAWS 1929 Section 6100: Creates a public service commission "whose duty it shall be to supervise and regulate the operation and mainten­ance of public utilities .... in conformity with the provisions of this• act." • Section 6108: "Every public utility ••••• is hereby required to furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities." Section 6117t "The Commission shall have power, in the interest of safety or service, after hearing to determine and order required and necessary repairs, reinforcements, construction and connection of property lines, equipment, appliances, buildings, tracks and all property used or useful in public utility service;...." Section 61258 "Chon a complaint made against any public utility by any ...... municipal corporation, that any ..... practice, or act whatsoever affecting or relating to ••••• the production, trans­mission or delivery or furnishing of .•... water,... or any service in connection therewith is, in any respect, ..••• insufficient, ... or that any service is inadequate, the Commission shall proceed, with or without notice, to make an investigation of such complaint, and if, as a result of such investigation, the Commission shall determine that probable cause exists for eueh complaint, it shall order a hearing thereof, upon notice to the public utility. But no order affecting said ••••• practice or act complained of shall be entered without a formal hearing." Section 6127 s "Xf, upon any hearing and after due investigation... it shall ...... be found that any practice, act or service complained of I s ..... Insufficient, .... or if it be found that the service is inadequate, or that any reasonable service cannot be obtained, the Commission shall have the power to substitute therefor sueh other ...... practices, service, or acts, and make such order relating thereto as may be just and reasonable. ...... The Commission may, at any time, upon its own motion, investigate any of the ..... . practices, and service, and, after a full hearing as above provided, by order, make such changes as may be just and reasonable, the same as if. a formal complaint had been made." Section 6133s "Any party in interest being dissatisfied with an order of the commission fixing ..... any .... practices or services, may within ninety (90) days commence an action in the district court of the proper County against the Commission and other interested parties as defendants to vaeats and set aside any such order on the ground that ..... any eueh ••••«• practice, or service, fixed in such order is unreasonable. ....... any party to such action may introduce evidence in addition to the transcript of the evidence offered to said Commission." -1