public utility holding company act
1Public Utility Holding Company Act — Le Public Utility Holding Company Act ou PUHCA, littéralement la Loi sur les sociétés holdings chargées d un service public, est une loi votée en 1935 par le Congrès des États Unis pour renforcer la régulation des groupes opérant dans les… …
2Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 — The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) was a law that was passed by the United States Congress to facilitate regulation of electric utilities, by either limiting their operations to a single state, and thus subjecting them to… …
3Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 — (PUHCA) PUHCA was enacted by the U.S. Congress to regulate the large interstate holding companies that monopolized the electric utility industry during the early 20th century. *** This act prohibits acquisition of any wholesale or retail… …
4Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 — Legislation intended to eliminate many holding company abuses by reorganizing the financial structures of holding companies in the gas and electric utility industries and regulating their debt and dividend policies. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …
5Public Utility Holding Company Act — Federal statute enacted in 1935 to protect public, investors and consumers from economic effect of complex, unwieldy and dishonest organization of public utilities and particularly from effect of false, misleading and irresponsible security… …
6Holding company — A holding company is a company that owns part, all, or a majority of other companies outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself, rather its only purpose is owning shares of other companies.… …
7Public utility — Utilities redirects here. For other uses, see Utility (disambiguation). Public infrastructure Assets and facilities Airports  …
8Holding company — A company that confines its activities to owning stock in and supervising management of other companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission, as administrator of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, defines a holding company as a… …
9North American Company — This article is about the utility holding company broken up by the SEC in 1946. For other entities similarly named, see North American (disambiguation). The North American Company was a holding company incorporated in New Jersey on June 14, 1890 …
10Potomac Electric Power Company — The Potomac Electric Power Company (known as Pepco) is a public utility supplying electric power to the city of Washington, D.C., and to surrounding communities in Maryland. It has operated there since the 1920s. The company s trademarked slogan …
