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     237.27 Attorney general to compel obedience. 

    When any telephone company fails to comply with any law of 
 the state or any order of the commission after it has become 
 final, or any order or judgment of the district court, the Court 
 of Appeals, or the Supreme Court in any cases taken to any of 
 the courts on appeal, after the judgment or order has become 
 final, the attorney general shall apply to the district court in 
 the name of the state in any county in which the plant of the 
 telephone company, or any part of it, is situated, for a 
 mandatory injunction or other appropriate writ to compel 
 obedience to the law, order, or judgment.  The district court 
 shall punish any disobedience of its orders in the enforcement 
 proceedings as for contempt of court.  

    HIST: (5311) 1915 c 152 s 25; 1971 c 25 s 67; 1980 c 614 s 
 123; 1983 c 247 s 101 

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