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This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 916<\/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. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2002, chapters 479<\/a> and 489<\/a>; in 2003, chapter 711<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":60584,"section_number":"56-484.7:1","catch_line":"Offering of communications services","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-484.7_1\/"},{"id":62050,"section_number":"56-484.7:4","catch_line":"Revocation of Commission approval","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-484.7_4\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":60584,"section_number":"56-484.7:1","catch_line":"Offering of communications services","order_by":null,"url":"\/56-484.7_1\/"}],"permalink":{"id":250005,"object_type":"law","relational_id":84607,"identifier":"56-484.7:2","token":"56\/15\/5.1\/56-484.7_2","url":"\/56-484.7_2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-484.7_2\/","token":"56\/15\/5.1\/56-484.7_2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Approval","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-484.7:2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Commission<\/span> shall find that it is in the public interest to approve the offering of qualifying communications services as defined in \u00a7 56-484.7:1<\/a> unless it shall be demonstrated to the Commission<\/span> and found that, within the geographic area specified in the petition<\/span>: (i) the qualifying communications service specified in the petition<\/span> as provided for in \u00a7 56-484.7:1<\/a> is readily and generally in the specified geographic area available from each of three or more nonaffiliated companies and is functionally equivalent for consumers in that specified geographic area to one or more services offered by each of the three or more competitors; (ii) the petition<\/span> is not in compliance with the requirements of \u00a7 56-484.7:1<\/a>; or (iii) the offering of the proposed qualifying communications services will not benefit consumers.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAPPROVAL (\u00a7 56-484.7:2)\n\nThe Commission shall find that it is in the public interest to approve the\noffering of qualifying communications services as defined in \u00a7 56-484.7:1\nunless it shall be demonstrated to the Commission and found that, within the\ngeographic area specified in the petition: (i) the qualifying communications\nservice specified in the petition as provided for in \u00a7 56-484.7:1 is readily\nand generally in the specified geographic area available from each of three or\nmore nonaffiliated companies and is functionally equivalent for consumers in\nthat specified geographic area to one or more services offered by each of the\nthree or more competitors; (ii) the petition is not in compliance with the\nrequirements of \u00a7 56-484.7:1; or (iii) the offering of the proposed qualifying\ncommunications services will not benefit consumers.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, c. 916; 2002, cc. 479, 489; 2003, c. 711.","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}}