Section 10
SEC. 10. Section fourteen of Act Numbered Twenty-three hundred and seven is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 14. The Board shall have general supervision and regulation of, jurisdiction and control over, all public utilities, and also over their property, property rights, equipment, facilities and franchises so far as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. The term 'public utility' is hereby defined to include every individual, copartnership, association, corporation or joint stock company, whether domestic or foreign, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, that now or hereafter may own, operate, manage or control within the Philippine Islands any common carrier, railroad, street railway, traction railway, steamboat or steamship line, shipyard, marine railway, marine repair shop, ferry, freight or any other car service, public warehouse, ice, refrigeration, cold storage, canal, express, subway, pipe line, gas, electric light, heat, power, water, oil, sewer, telephone, wire or wireless telegraph system, plant or equipment, for public use: Provided, That ice plants, cold storage plants, shipyards, marine railways, and marine repair shops shall be exempt from the operation of this Act so long as the Insular or Federal Governments shall have any interest or participation in establishments of a like character or nature: And provided further, That in case the Insular or Federal Governments alienate the ice plants, cold storage plants, shipyards, marine railways, and marine repair shops which they possess at present, these shall come under the operation of this Act and therefore under the control of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners."