38. The Board, any controller designated by the president or, if the latter is unable to act, by the vice-president, and any person specially authorized by the Board, may make an inventory of all the property of the distributors and carry out investigations as to the financial structure, books and methods of accounting, rates, receipts, profits, salaries and in general all the operations of the distributors. Investigations respecting the electricity distributors designated to the Board by the Government shall have precedence over all others and must be conducted with all the celerity humanly possible.
R. S. 1964, c. 87, s. 30.