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2018 Georgia Code 46-5-42 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 46 PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Section 5. Telephone Service, 46-5-1 through 46-5-252.

ARTICLE 2 TELEPHONE SERVICE

46-5-42. Interference with existing telephone lines, plants, or systems by person constructing or extending a telephone line, plant, or system.

If any person, in constructing or extending his telephone line, plant, or system, unreasonably interferes or is about to interfere unreasonably with any line, plant, system, or service of any other person, the commission, on its own initiative or on the complaint of any person claiming to be injuriously affected, may, after a hearing conducted after the giving of reasonable notice, make such order and prescribe such terms and conditions with respect thereto as are just and reasonable.

(Ga. L. 1950, p. 311, § 2.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Statesboro Tel. Co. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 235 Ga. 179, 219 S.E.2d 127 (1975).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Telecommunications, § 114.

ALR.

- Right of public utility not having an exclusive franchise to protection against, or damages for, interference with its operations, property, or plant by a competitor, 119 A.L.R. 432.

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