2006 Ohio Revised Code - 4931.17. Transmitting and delivery of dispatches.

§ 4931.17. Transmitting and delivery of dispatches.
 

Every telegraph company, incorporated or unincorporated, operating a telegraph line in this state, shall transmit and deliver all dispatches in the order in which they are received for transmission or delivery. For failure to do so, such company is liable to a forfeiture of one hundred dollars, as provided in section 4931.14 of the Revised Code, except that arrangements may be made with the proprietors or publishers of newspapers for the transmission, for publication, of intelligence of general and public interest, out of its regular order, and dispatches by officers of the state or the United States, on public business, may have preference over all private business, when the public interest requires it. No company is required to deliver dispatches at a greater distance from the station at which they are received than is published in its regulations. If an applicant directs a dispatch to be mailed at the place of delivery, and offers to pay the necessary postage, the company shall affix the proper postage stamp, and mail the dispatch in time for the first mail that departs after it is received at the office of delivery, and for an omission to do so the company is liable to a forfeiture as provided in section 4931.14 of the Revised Code. 
 

HISTORY: RS § 3465; S&S 155; 62 v 72, § 9; GC § 9185; Bureau of Code Revision. Eff 10-1-53.