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279.570 Foreign corporations.
Any foreign nonprofit or cooperative corporation furnishing or authorized to furnish
telephone service and owning or operating telephone lines or facilities in an adjacent
state may construct or acquire extensions of such lines in this state and operate
such extensions without complying with any statute of this state pertaining to the
qualifications of foreign corporations for the doing of business in this state. Any such
corporation shall, before constructing or operating such extensions, by an instrument
executed and acknowledged on its behalf by its president or vice president, under its
seal attested by its secretary, and filed with the Secretary of State, designate the
Secretary of State its agent to accept service of process on its behalf. Thereafter,
with respect to its operations in this state, such corporation shall have only the
rights, powers, privileges and immunities of, and shall be subject to all of the laws of
this state relating to the jurisdiction and supervision of the Public Service
Commission in the same manner and to the same extent as, a cooperative
organized under KRS 279.310 to 279.600. In the event any process shall be served
upon the Secretary of State, he shall forthwith forward the same by certified mail,
return receipt requested to such corporation at the address thereof specified in the
aforesaid instrument.
Effective:July 15, 1980
History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 114, sec. 66, effective July 15, 1980. -Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 315, sec. 44. -- Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 147,
sec. 27, effective March 25, 1950.
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