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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?071+ful+CHAP0427\">427<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":250071,"object_type":"law","relational_id":73927,"identifier":"56-484.20","token":"56\/15\/8\/56-484.20","url":"\/56-484.20\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-484.20\/","token":"56\/15\/8\/56-484.20","dublin_core":{"Title":"Charges for emergency calls","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-484.20","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">MLTS provider<\/span> of any <span class=\"dictionary\">multiline telephone system<\/span> shall maintain and operate the MLTS in such manner that an individual placing an <span class=\"dictionary\">emergency call<\/span> from a <span class=\"dictionary\">telephone station<\/span> on the MLTS is not charged for the call.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCHARGES FOR EMERGENCY CALLS (\u00a7 56-484.20)\n\nThe MLTS provider of any multiline telephone system shall maintain and operate\nthe MLTS in such manner that an individual placing an emergency call from a\ntelephone station on the MLTS is not charged for the call.\n\nHISTORY: 2007, c. 427.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}