People's Counsel v. Public Service Commission

I dissent because, in my opinion, the majority of the Court has construed too narrowly the words “begin construction. . .of a generating station” in the Act of 1968, Ch. 498, now Art. 78, § 54A of the Maryland Code, effective July 1, 1968, and has applied inappropriate criteria in reaching that narrow construction, thus misconstruing the legislative intent in regard to the applicability of § 54A.

*425It is apparent that the word “construction” has a broad and varied meaning. In Webster’s New International Dictionary (2nd ed. 1949), p. 572, the noun “construction” is defined as having six general…