§ 250.27 - Classification of accounts prescribed for utility companies not already subject thereto.

(a) Every registered holding company and subsidiary thereof, which is a public utility company and which is not required by either the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or a State commission to conform to a classification of accounts, shall keep its accounts, insofar as it is an electric utility company, in the manner currently prescribed for similar companies by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or, and insofar as it is a gas utility company, in the manner currently recommended by the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, except any company whose public utility activities are so limited that the application to it of such system of accounts is clearly inappropriate. A company claiming that its activities are thus limited, shall apply to the Commission for written instructions to that effect.

(b) All references, in the systems of accounts made applicable by paragraph (a) of this section, to the authority prescribing the same and to orders and instructions by, and reports to, said authority, shall be deemed to refer to the Securities and Exchange Commission as the “Commission” thereby designated.