278.510 Consolidation of telephone lines.
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No telephone company doing an exchange business in a city shall consolidate with
any other telephone company doing an exchange business in the same city, or
purchase, lease or operate the plant or line of any such company, until the proper
city authorities have found, after such investigation as they deem necessary, that no
substantial public benefits result from the separate existence of the companies and
that actual competitive conditions do not exist, and have stated their finding in a
resolution consenting to such consolidation, lease, sale or operating arrangement.
No telephone company doing a toll line business shall consolidate with any other
company doing a like business whose lines serve the same communities or
localities, or purchase, lease or operate the plant or lines of any such company until
the Public Service Commission has found, after such investigation as it deems
necessary, that no substantial public benefits result from the separate existence of
the companies and that actual competitive conditions do not exist, and has stated its
finding in a resolution consenting to such consolidation, lease, sale or operating
arrangement. Whenever a joint application of two (2) or more such telephone
companies requesting such finding and consent is filed with the Public Service
Commission, the commission shall make such investigation, hold such hearings,
examine such witnesses and require the production of such books, papers, and
records as it deems pertinent to the determination of the application, and shall grant
or withhold such consent as the facts warrant.
The Public Service Commission shall have jurisdiction of those matters set out in
Section 201 of the Constitution that relate to telephone companies, and shall enter
in its minutes a record of its acts in relation thereto.
Effective: July 15, 1982
History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 82, sec. 48, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 379, sec. 52, effective April 1, 1979. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts
ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 4679e-1, 4679e-2,
4679e-4.
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