...Company Act as "any company which directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, l0 per centum or more of the outstanding voting securities of a public-utility company * * *." issuance of securities and other forms of financing, acquisitions and dispositions of utility...

...important of the definitions are as follows: "Holding company," defined in section 2(a)(7)(A) as one "which directly or indirectly owns, controls or holds...outstanding voting securities of a public-utility company;" "Public-utility company," defined in section 2(a)(5) as "an electric utility company or a gas utility...

...10 per centum or more of the voting stock of any banking institution or of any company which owns, controls or holds with power to vote 10 per centum or more of the voting stock of such banking institution, but no person shall be deemed to control a banking Institution...

...companies. 2 The 1 Dated August 30, 1983 (GAO/RCED-83-118 ) . 2The act defines a holding company as "* * * any company which directly or indirectly owns, controls,...company or of a company which is a holding company * * * . " lor act's provisions were intended to protect the public, investors, and consumers from abuses...

...(6) "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission. (7) "Holding company" means — (A) any company which directly or indirectly owns, controls,...this clause or clause (B), unless the Commission, 175 PUHCA of 1935 Sec. 2 as hereinafter provided, by order declares such company not to be a holding...

...single area or region. The statute broadly defines the key terns under the Act. A "holding company* is "any company which directly or indirectly owns, controls,...outstanding voting securities of a public-utility company." 8_/ An "electric utility company," in turn, is "any company that owns or operates facilities used for...

...and a single line of utility business, gas or electric. A "holding company" is generally defined as "any company which directly or indirectly owns, controls,...outstanding voting securities of a public-utility company." 12/ An "electric utility company," for purposes of the 1935 Act, is "any company that owns or operates...

...strictures of the Act come into play. The Act's key terns are broadly defined. A "holding company" is "any company which directly or indirectly owns, controls,...outstanding voting securities of a public-utility company." A/ An "electric utility company" is "any company that owns or operates facilities used for the generation,...

...complete interests in other companies. 'PUHCA defines a holding company as any company or person that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with...or more of the outstanding voting securities of a public utility company or of a company that is a holding company. Because the past decade's structural...

...2(a)(7) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act. It generally defines a holding company to include "any company which directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote 10 percentum or more of the outstanding voting securities" as well as any person able "directly or indirectly...