2006 Ohio Revised Code - [4905.24.1] 4905.241.Company may make application to render service where another is giving inadequate service.

[§ 4905.24.1] § 4905.241. Company may make application to render service where another is giving inadequate service.
 

Any telephone company may be authorized by the public utilities commission to furnish a telephone service in any area where no telephone service is being furnished upon filing a plat of the area proposed to be served. 
 

Where the telephone service being furnished in an area by any company is inadequate, another telephone company proposing to serve such area shall file with the commission an application requesting authority to render such service. 
 

The application shall be verified and shall state the service proposed, the area within which such service is to be furnished, the time within which such service will be available, the inadequacy of existing service, if any is being furnished, and such other information as the commission may by rule prescribe. 
 

The commission upon the filing of such application, shall fix a date for hearing not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days after the date of filing and shall give notice thereof to the applicant and the telephone company, if any, then furnishing telephone service in the area, not less than fifteen days prior to the date of such hearing. If the commission finds that the telephone service, if any, being furnished in said area is inadequate and that the company serving such area is unable or unwilling to furnish an adequate service within a reasonable length of time and at a just rate, it shall authorize the applicant to render such service. 
 

HISTORY: 125 v 613. Eff 10-26-53.