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2020 Georgia Code
Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation
Chapter 5 - Telephone Service
Article 3 - Telegraph Service
§ 46-5-140. Through 46-5-149

Universal Citation:
GA Code § 46-5-140 (2020)
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Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2012, p. 847, § 11/HB 1115, effective July 1, 2012.

Editor's notes.

- This article consisted of Code Sections46-5-140 through46-5-149, relating to telegraph service, and was based on Ga. L. 1880-81, p. 115, §§ 1, 2; Code 1882, § 3412; Ga. L. 1893, p. 86, §§ 1-5; Civil Code 1895, §§ 2339-2343, 2348; Ga. L. 1908, p. 94, §§ 1, 2; Civil Code 1910, §§ 2803-2807, 2812-2814; Code 1933, §§ 104-101 - 104-104, 104-201, 104-206 - 104-208; Code 1981, §§ 46-5-140 -46-5-149; Ga. L. 1983, p. 859, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 46, Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 46; Ga. L. 2005, p. 524, § 1/HB 622.

ARTICLE 4 TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND COMPETITION DEVELOPMENT

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 1995, p. 886, § 3, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "The Public Service Commission shall be required to conduct at least three hearings in locations outside the metropolitan areas of the state and accept evidence as to the costs, feasibility, and methodology of providing for toll free calling between two telephones where the central offices serving such telephones are within an extended area of service of not less than 22 miles of each other. The methodology and analysis of the cost and feasibility of such toll free calling area shall be conducted under the supposition of an alternative system of regulation within the framework of Section 1 of this Act. The commission shall conduct such hearings prior to November 30, 1995, and shall report its findings to the General Assembly no later than December 31, 1995. The Public Service Commission shall conclude its consideration in Docket 4231-U of the expansion of local calling areas pursuant to its rules, including but not limited to all balloting and the formulation of an appropriate rate design, on or before January 1, 1996. The implementation of the expanded calling areas shall be completed on or before July 1, 1996."

Ga. L. 1995, p. 886, § 4, not codified by the General Assembly, provides for severability.

Law reviews.

- For note on the 1995 enactment of this article, see 12 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 333 (1995).

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