                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXTENSION OF SERVICE TO TERRITORY NOT BEING SERVED (§ 56-508)

If, from any rural territory not now being served, application be made to the
State Corporation Commission by a group of five or more persons, natural or
artificial, to require an extension of telephone service to such territory, the
Commission shall, if necessary to accomplish the purposes sought, fix a time for
hearing upon the application, on such terms and conditions as the Commission
prescribes, and, if it be established to the satisfaction of the Commission that
a proper guaranteed revenue for a sufficient number of years will accrue to any
company which may be required to construct the desired extension, and that a
reasonable return will accrue to the company constructing the extension, then
the Commission is authorized to require the nearest, or most advantageously
located public telephone company to such territory to construct such extension
to such point or points in such territory and to serve such customer or
customers therein, as in its judgment is deemed right and proper.

HISTORY: 1950, p. 595; 1956, c. 434.