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Joint use of telephone and telegraph facilities - 66 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2904

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     § 2904.  Joint use of telephone and telegraph facilities.
        (a)  Through lines for continuous service.--The commission
     may, upon complaint or upon its own motion, after reasonable
     notice and hearing, by order, require any two or more public
     utilities, whose lines or wires form a continuous line of
     communication, or could be made to do so by the construction and
     maintenance of suitable connections or the joint use of
     facilities, or the transfer of messages at common points,
     between different localities which cannot be communicated with,
     or reached by, the lines of either public utility alone, where
     such service is not already established or provided, to
     establish and maintain through lines within this Commonwealth
     between two or more such localities. The rate for such service
     shall be just and reasonable and the commission shall have power
     to establish the same, and declare the portion thereof to which
     each company affected thereby is entitled and the manner in
     which the same must be secured and paid. All facilities
     necessary to establish such service shall be constructed and
     maintained in such manner and under such rules, with such
     division of expense and labor, as may be required by the
     commission.
        (b)  Trunk line connections.--The commission may, upon
     complaint or upon its own motion, after reasonable notice and
     hearing, by order, require any one or more public utilities to
     connect their facilities, through the medium of suitable trunk
     lines, with such manual or automatic inter-communicating
     telephone or telegraph systems as may be wholly owned or leased
     by such public utilities, or by any other person or corporation.
     Rates for such trunk line connections and service shall be in
     accordance with tariffs filed with and approved by the
     commission.

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