O.C.G.A. § 46-2-22 (2019)
Jurisdiction of commission over express companies and telegraph companies
Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2012, p. 847, § 4/HB 1115, effective July 1, 2012.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS to public service is unconstitutional taking of property. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm’n v. Georgia Power Co., 182 Ga. 706, 186 S.E. 839 (1936). Utility has no authority to select customers or discriminate. - A corporation organized to generate and supply hydroelectric power to the public, and having a monopoly of such power in the section where it operates, has no authority to select customers or discriminate against the members of a class it has elected to serve. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm’n v. Georgia Power Co., 182 Ga. 706, 186 S.E. 839 (1936).
Courts to investigate only unreasonable, arbitrary, or confiscatory commission orders. - Courts should not interfere with valid order of Public Service Commission unless it is clearly shown that the order is unreasonable, arbitrary, or confiscatory; and courts have no power to substitute their judgment for that of the commission. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm’n v. Georgia Power Co., 182 Ga. 706, 186 S.E. 839 (1936). Requiring extension of power lines beyond utility’s commitment unconstitutional. - Requiring extension of existing power lines beyond scope of carrier’s commitment
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL the laws of the state, but also express authority to regulate the charges for messages sent by telegraph by these companies. 1976 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 76-79.
Authority of commission to regulate telegram charges. - The Public Service Commission has not only general supervisory powers over business organizations which are chartered as telegraph companies under
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - What telephone companies are within public utilities acts, 21 ALR 1162; 132 ALR 1495.
Telephone company’s liability for disclosure of number or address of subscriber holding unlisted number, 1 ALR4th 218.