                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RATES, ETC., ON FILE WITH COMMISSION NOT TO BE QUESTIONED IN COURTS; REVISION;
PROOF (§ 56-480)

The reasonableness, justice and validity of any rate, charge, rule, regulation
or requirement on file with the Commission for any telephone company shall not
be questioned in any suit brought by any person in the courts of this
Commonwealth against any such telephone company, wherein is involved the charges
of such company for the transmission of messages, or the efficiency of the
public service and in all the courts of this Commonwealth they shall be
conclusively presumed to be reasonable, just and valid.
		All such schedules, rules, regulations and requirements shall be received and
held in all such suits as prima facie the schedules, rules, regulations and
requirements of the Commission without further proof than the production of the
schedules desired to be used as evidence, with a certificate of the clerk of the
Commission that the same is a true copy of the schedule, rule, regulation or
requirement on file with the Commission and so offered in evidence.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 4056; 1973, c. 378.