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[CITE: 15USC79s]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
              CHAPTER 2C--PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANIES
 
Sec. 79s. Hearings before Commission

    Hearings may be public and may be held before the Commission, any 
member or members thereof, or any officer or officers of the Commission 
designated by it, and appropriate records thereof shall be kept. In any 
proceeding before the Commission, the Commission, in accordance with 
such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, shall admit as a party 
any interested State, State commission, State securities commission, 
municipality, or other political subdivision of a State, and may admit 
as a party any representative of interested consumers or security 
holders, or any other person whose participation in the proceedings may 
be in the public interest or for the protection of investors or 
consumers.

(Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title I, Sec. 19, 49 Stat. 832.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of Securities and Exchange Commission, 
with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan 
No. 10 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 
1265, set out under section 78d of this title.