CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -VALIDITY OF REGISTRATION PROVISIONS OF PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935

Authors

Gerald L. Stoetzer, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

In recognition of the abuses that arise from the monopolistic tendencies of holding companies in the public utility field and of the inability of the respective states to exert the necessary control thereof, Congress has attempted to draw certain of the public utility holding companies within the inquisitorial and regulatory control of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, reciting in great detail facts showing the necessity for control of holding companies having as subsidiaries electric and gas operating utilities, indicates that Congress regarded the uncontrolled utility holding company as "an agency which, unless regulated, is injurious to investors, consumers, and the general public:"

Recommended Citation

Gerald L. Stoetzer, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -VALIDITY OF REGISTRATION PROVISIONS OF PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935, 36 Mich. L. Rev. 1324 (1938).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol36/iss8/5