A telephone company furnishing public telephone or telegraph service, including any telephone cooperative operating in the state, shall file with the commission an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity. The commission shall grant a certificate only to the extent of territory served and shall define such area on a map. Operations for which no application has been made are unlawful.
History: 1953 Comp., § 69-10-4, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 292, § 4; 1998, ch. 108, § 55.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1998 amendment, effective January 1, 1999, rewrote this section.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 86 C.J.S. Telecommunications §§ 21, 22.