Arkansas Code Title 23, Subtitle 1, Chapter 17, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 23-17-101 - Right to Construct, Operate, and Maintain Lines -- Damages for Occupation of Property.
  (a) (1) Any person or corporation organized by virtue of the laws of this state or of any other state of the United States...
• § 23-17-102 - Railroads May Operate Telegraphs and Telephones -- Authority.
  Any railroad company incorporated by the laws of or operating lines of railroad within this state, upon filing its assent to this section and...
• § 23-17-103 - Condemnation Proceedings Upon Failure to Secure Right-Of-way.
  In the event that the telegraph or telephone companies upon application to such individuals, railroads, or turnpike companies fail to secure a right-of-way by...
• § 23-17-104 - Right of Entry for Construction -- Liability for Damages.
  Wherever any telegraph or telephone company desires to construct its lines on or along the lands of individuals, on the right-of-way and structures of...
• § 23-17-105 - Contract for Exclusive Privileges Prohibited.
  No telegraph or telephone corporation organized by virtue of the laws of this state or doing business in this state by virtue of the...
• § 23-17-106 - Priority of Dispatch of Messages -- Confidentiality.
  (a) (1) In consideration of the right-of-way over the public property conceded in this section and §§ 23-17-101 -- 23-17-105, 23-17-107 , 23-17-108, and...
• § 23-17-107 - Interception of Message -- Injuring Equipment -- Penalty.
  If any person without authority intercepts a dispatch or message transmitted by telephone or willfully destroys or injures any telephone pole, wire, cable, or...
• § 23-17-108 - Refusal to Transmit Message -- Penalty.
  Every telegraph and telephone company doing business in this state, under a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each and every refusal to...
• § 23-17-109 - [Repealed.]
• § 23-17-110 - Telegraph Companies -- Schedule of Rates.
  In order to ascertain what the regular charges of such companies are, all telegraph companies doing business in this state are required to keep...
• § 23-17-111 - [Repealed.]
• § 23-17-112 - Damages for Mental Anguish.
  (a) All telegraph companies doing business in this state shall be liable in damages for mental anguish or suffering even in the absence of...
• § 23-17-113 - Telephone Service to Be Supplied Without Discrimination -- Complaint to Commission.
  (a) (1) Every telephone company doing business in this state and engaged in a general telephone business shall supply all applicants for telephone connection...
• § 23-17-114, 23-17-115 - [Repealed.]
• § 23-17-116 - Fee for Initiation of Residential Telephone Service to Be Payable in Installments.
  (a) The fee or charge imposed by any telephone company doing business in this state for the initiation of local telephone service at a...
• § 23-17-117, 23-17-118 - [Repealed.]
• § 23-17-119 - Surcharges to Provide Telecommunications for Deaf and Hearing Impaired -- Definitions.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Commercial mobile radio service" means the same as defined at § 12-10-303; and (2) "Prepaid wireless telephone...
• § 23-17-120 - Establishment of Calling Plans.
  (a) (1) The Arkansas Public Service Commission by regulation shall establish calling plans in telephone exchanges in the state. (2) The commission shall determine...
• § 23-17-121 - Agreements for Special Terminating Access Rates or Plans.
  (a) Two (2) or more eligible telecommunications carriers may enter into an agreement under this section for special terminating access rates or plans between...

Last modified: November 15, 2016