supply system. A. The Corporation Commission shall have general supervision over trusts created for the benefit and furtherance of a public function pursuant to Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes, Sections 176 et seq., where: 1. The trust has multiple beneficiaries; and 2. A water supply system is operated by the trust or a person or entity to which such function has been delegated; and 3. The water supply system is operated in a county having a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000) persons according to the most recent Federal Decennial Census; and 4. The beneficiaries do not regulate the rates, charges and practices of the water supply system. B. The Corporation Commission shall also have general supervision over any person or entity to whom the function of operating a water supply system has been delegated by such a trust. C. The Corporation Commission shall have the power to fix and establish rates and to prescribe rules, requirements and regulations affecting their services, operation, and the management and conduct of the business of persons and entities subject to this section and shall inquire into the management of the business thereof, and the method in which same is conducted. It shall have full visitorial and inquisitorial power to examine such operations, and keep informed as to their general conditions, their capitalization, rates, plants, equipment, apparatus, and other property owned, leased, controlled or operated, the value of same, the management, conduct, operation, practices and services, not only with respect to the adequacy, security and accommodation afforded by their service, but also with respect to their compliance with the Constitution and laws of this state, and with the orders of the Commission.
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