2011 Vermont Code
Title 30 Public Service
Chapter 75 INTERCHANGE OF SERVICE BETWEEN TELEGRAPH AND TELEP
§ 2701 Transfer of messages and interchange of service

§ 2701. Transfer of messages and interchange of service

Whenever the board, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, finds that a physical connection can reasonably be made between the lines of two or more telephone companies or two or more telegraph companies whose lines can be made to form a continuous line of communication, by the construction and maintenance of suitable connections, for the transfer of messages or conversations, and that public convenience and necessity will be subserved thereby, or finds that two or more telegraph or telephone companies have failed to establish joint rates, tolls or charges for service by or over their lines, and that joint rates, tolls or charges ought to be established, the board may, by its order, (a) require that the connection be made, except where the purpose of the connection is primarily to secure the transmission of local messages or conversations between points within the same city or town, and that conversations be transmitted and messages transferred over the connection

under such rules and regulations as the board may establish, and (b) may prescribe through lines and joint rates, tolls and charges to be made and to be used, observed and enforced in the future. If the telephone or telegraph companies do not agree upon the division of the joint rates, tolls or charges established by the board over the through lines, the board may, after further hearing, establish the division by supplemental order. (Amended 1961, No. 180, { 2.)