Corporation—■ Public Utility — Furnishing Electricity to Private Person—Municipal Regulation.—A corporation, engaged in the business of supplying gas and electricity to the inhabitants of a city, in furnishing electricity for power to be used by a private person in his private business, acts in the performance of a public service which can be regulated by the municipality.

Id.—Test of Public Service—Duty of Purveyor to Supply Public.— The use which the consumer makes of the commodity furnished does not constitute the test as to whether or not the regulatory powers of boards or commissions in dealing with public utilities may be invoked. It is the duty which the purveyor or producer has undertaken to perform on behalf of and so owes to the public generally, or to any defined portion of it, as the purveyor of a commodity, or as an agency in the performance of a service, which stamps the purveyor or the agency as being a public service utility.

Ib.—Los Angeles—Power to Regulate Public Service Corporations. The power of regulating public service corporations is expressly conferred on the city of Los Angeles by article I, section 2, subdivision 30, of its charter.

Id.—Police Power—Power of Municipality not Limited to Fixing Maximum Rates.-—The rate-fixing powers of a municipality, in its reasonable use of its police power, is not limited to the establishment of the maximum charge which a public utility may make, leaving it open to the utility by agreement to fix a less charge for an individual consumer. Such a limitation on its power would open the door for abuse by way of favoritism and discrimination within the limit, the prevention of which is one of the primary objects to be attained by rate regulation.

Id.-—Denying Consumer Bight to Apply por Beduction op Bates— Discrimination—Denial op Due Process op Law.—An ordinance of a municipality fixing for the period of one year, and after an opportunity had been accorded the consumers to be heard, the rates to be charged by a public service corporation, and prohibiting the collection of lesser rates, is not rendered discriminatory, nor does it operate to deny to the consumers the equal protection of the law, merely because it contains a provision allowing the corporation to apply for a reduction of rates during the life of the ordinance, and denying such rights to the consumers.

Id.—Contract With Consumer Subject to Subsequent Bate Begulation.—A contract between a public service corporation and a private consumer will be conclusively presumed to have been executed in contemplation of the power of the proper board or tribunal to thereafter fix rates in every ease where such power exists and may have been legally exercised.