Section IX-34: Definitions - Avoidance of conflicts with U. S. Constitution.

  As used in this Article, the term "transportation company"
shall include any company, corporation, trustee, receiver or any
other person owning, leasing or operating for hire a railroad,
street railway, canal, steamboat line, and also any freight car
company, car corporation, or company, trustee or persons in any
way engaged in such business as a common carrier over a route
acquired in whole or in part under the right of eminent domain,
or under any grant from the Government of the United States; the
term "rate" shall be construed to mean rate of charge for any
service rendered, or to be rendered; the terms "rate," "charge"
and "regulation" shall include joint rates, joint charges and
joint regulations, respectively; the term "transmission company"
shall include any company, receiver or other person owning,
leasing or operating for hire any telegraph or telephone line;
the term "freight" shall be construed to mean any property
transported or received for transportation by any transportation
company.  The term "public service corporation" shall include all
transportation and transmission companies, all gas, electric,
heat, light and power companies, and all persons, firms,
corporations, receivers or trustees engaged in said businesses,
and all persons, firms, corporations, receivers or trustees
authorized to exercise the right of eminent domain or having a
franchise to use or occupy any right of way, street, alley or
public highway, whether along, over or under the same, in a
manner not permitted to the general public, and all persons,
firms, corporations, receivers and trustees engaged in any
business which is a public utility or a public service
corporation, at the present time or which may hereafter be
declared to be a public utility or a public service corporation.
The term "person" as used in this Article shall include
individuals, partnerships, and corporations in the singular as
well as plural number; the term "bond" shall mean all
certificates or written evidence of indebtedness issued by any
corporation and secured by mortgage or trust deed.  The term
"frank" shall mean any writing or token issued by or under
authority of a transmission company, entitling the holder to any
service from such company free of charge.
  The provisions of this Article shall always be so restricted in
their application as not to conflict with any of the provisions
of the Constitution of the United States, and as if the necessary
limitations upon their interpretation had been herein expressed
in each case.