28 In this Part,
“company” means a railway, street railway or incline railway company, and includes every such company and any person or municipal corporation having authority to construct or operate a railway or street railway or incline railway; (“compagnie”)
“public utility” means a waterworks, gasworks (including works for the production, transmission, distribution and supply of natural gas), electric heat, light and power works, telephone lines, or any works supplying the general public with necessaries or conveniences; (“service public”)
“railway” means any railway that the company has authority to construct or operate, and includes all associated branches, sidings, stations, depots, wharfs, rolling stock, equipment, stores, real or personal property and works, and also any railway bridge, tunnel or other structure that the company is authorized to construct; (“chemin de fer”)
“street railway” means a railway constructed or operated along and upon a highway under an agreement with or by-law of a city or town, although it may at some point or points deviate from the highway to a right-of-way owned by the company, and includes all portions of the railway within the city or town and for a distance of not more than 2.4 kilometres beyond the limits of the city or town, and any part of an electric railway that lies within the limits of a city or town and that is constructed or operated along and upon a highway and includes buses and other vehicular means of transportation operated as part of or in connection with a street railway. (“tramway”)