Code of Virginia - Title 56 Public Service Companies - Chapter 15 Telegraph And Telephone Companies

56-458 Right to erect lines parallel to railroads; occupation of roads, streets, etc.; location of sam...
A. Every telegraph company and every telephone company incorporated by this or any other state, or by the United States, may construct, maintain and operate ...
56-458.1 Relocation of lines or works of certain public utilities acquired by Commonwealth Transportation Bo...
Whenever a telegraph or telephone company, or any company mentioned in Chapter 10 (§ 56-232 et seq.) of this title, shall be required by the ...
56-459 Removal of old line not required by this chapter
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the Commonwealth Transportation Board to require the removal of the lines and works of any telegraph ...
56-460 How consent of appropriate authorities obtained; terms of use
The consent required under § 56-458, when given, shall be by ordinance regularly adopted by the council or other governing body of the city or ...
56-461 Cost to Commonwealth in connection with construction of line to be paid by company
The actual costs and expenses of the Commonwealth in the investigation by the Commonwealth Transportation Board of the application of any company for a permit, ...
56-462 Franchise to occupy parks, streets, etc.; imposition of terms, conditions, etc., as to use of stree...
A. No incorporated city or town shall grant to any such telegraph or telephone corporation the right to erect its poles, wires, or cables, or ...
56-463 Company may contract for right-of-way, etc
Every such company may contract with any person or corporation, the owner of lands, or of any interest, franchise, privilege, or easement therein or in ...
56-464 Right of eminent domain
If the company and such owner cannot agree on the terms of such contract, the company may acquire such right-of-way in the manner provided by ...
56-465 Preceding sections subject to repeal or change at pleasure
The preceding sections of this chapter and also §§ 56-466, 56-467 and 56-484 shall be subject to repeal, alteration, or modification, and the rights and ...
56-466 Location of posts, poles, cables and conduits; height of wires, etc
All posts, poles, wires, cables and conduits which shall be erected by any authority in the preceding sections of this chapter conferred shall be so ...
56-466.1 Pole attachments; cable television systems and telecommunications service providers
A. As used in this section: "Cable television system" means any system licensed, franchised or certificated pursuant to Article 1.2 (§ 15.2-2108.19 et seq.) of ...
56-467 Restoring condition of ground
The portions of the surface of the parks, roads, turnpikes, streets, avenues, or alleys, or of any pavements opened up or disturbed in erecting, repairing, ...
56-468 Endangering life or limb by stringing wires across other works
Whoever shall hereafter erect, string, or maintain wires for any telephone or telegraph lines, over or across the works, in this Commonwealth, of any company ...
56-468.1 (Contingent expiration - see Editor's note) Public Rights-of-Way Use Fee
A. As used in this article: "Access lines" are defined to include residence and business telephone lines and other switched (packet or circuit) lines connecting ...
56-468.2 Reimbursement for relocation costs
A. After July 1, 1998, certificated providers of telecommunications services shall receive reimbursement for eligible relocation costs incurred at the direction of a locality that ...
56-469 Receipt and transmission of dispatches; venue
It shall be the duty of every telegraph company in this Commonwealth to receive dispatches and messages from and for other telegraph companies or lines ...
56-470 Messages to be delivered or forwarded promptly
Every telegraph company, upon the arrival of a dispatch or message at the point to which it is to be transmitted, shall cause the same ...
56-471 Interstate messages
Nothing contained in §§ 56-469 and 56-470 shall apply to interstate messages. (Code 1919, § 4044.) ...
56-472 Intrastate messages
A telegraphic message from any point in this Commonwealth to another point in this Commonwealth shall be deemed to be a domestic message. (Code 1919, ...
56-473 Reasonable regulations for "day letters" and "night letters"
Telegraph companies may make reasonable regulations for the transmission and delivery of telegrams commonly designated as "day letters" or "night letters," and if such regulations ...
56-474 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1977, c. 624. ...
56-475 What companies subject to {{ 56-469 and 56-470
Every person, firm, association, or company doing the business of telegraphing messages for the public in this Commonwealth, whether incorporated or not, shall be subject ...
56-476 Company shall not contract against its own negligence
No company doing business as a telegraph company in this Commonwealth shall have the right, by contract or otherwise, to limit, evade, or restrict in ...
56-476.1 Gratuitous undertaking to sound fire alarms
Where any telegraph company has assumed, without compensation, the undertaking to sound any fire alarm, in cooperation with the governing body of any town, city ...
56-477 Special damages; mental anguish; damages not to be barred by regulations of company
All telegraph companies in this Commonwealth shall be liable for special damages occasioned by the negligence of their operators or servants in receiving, copying, transmitting, ...
56-478 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1973, c. 376. ...
56-478.1 Requiring extension of telephone facilities into rural areas
If, from any rural territory not now being served, application be made to the Commission by a group of ten or more persons, natural or ...
56-479 Commission to make rules; require connection between companies; inspect lines and building...
The Commission shall keep itself fully informed of the condition of all the telephone companies of this Commonwealth as to the manner in which they ...
56-479.1 Long distance service; change of carriers; prior authorization
No telephone company shall cause the long distance carrier designation of any telephone customer to be changed following such customer's initial selection thereof when establishing ...
56-479.2 Anti-competitive acts; injunctive relief
A. No telecommunications service provider shall engage in anti-competitive acts or practices in connection with its provision of telecommunications services including price discrimination, predatory pricing ...
56-480 Rates, etc., on file with Commission not to be questioned in courts; revision; proof
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 ...
56-480.1 Time limit on institution of approved rates
No telephone company shall institute a rate for service contained within the official tariff of the company more than three years from the date such ...
56-480.2 Operator assistance at pay stations
No telephone company shall require the deposit of money in any pay station as a prerequisite to reaching the operator from such station. (1979, c. ...
56-481 Rates established by municipal corporations subject to revision by Commission
Upon complaint by anyone aggrieved that any rate, charge or practice of any telephone company doing business in this Commonwealth, established or provided for by ...
56-481.1 Rates, charges, and regulations for interexchange telephone service
If under Chapter 10.1 (§ 56-265.1 et seq.) of this title a certificate of public convenience and necessity is issued to a telephone company to ...
56-481.2 Rates, charges and regulations for local exchange telephone services provided by new entrant...
If, under subsection B of § 56-265.4:4, a certificate of public convenience and necessity is issued to a new entrant to provide local exchange telephone ...
56-482 Agreements between telephone companies to be submitted to Commission
Upon demand of either party thereto or any person affected thereby all arrangements and agreements whatever between two or more telephone companies doing business in ...
56-482.1 Reports required of interexchange telephone companies
Each interexchange telephone company shall provide to the Commission in a timely manner any report or information concerning its usage of local exchange telephone services ...
56-482.2 Penalties
Any interexchange company which willfully and knowingly fails to provide on time a report required by § 56-482.1 or willfully and knowingly understates the volume ...
56-483 Refusal or neglect to make reports; obstructing Commission in discharge of duties; violations in ge...
Every officer, agent or employee of any telephone company, who shall willfully neglect or refuse to make and furnish any report lawfully required by the ...
56-484 Foreign companies to obtain license
Every telephone or telegraph company, not incorporated by the laws of this Commonwealth, shall, as a condition precedent to the enjoyment of any right or ...
56-484.1 Definitions
The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning appears from the context: A. ...
56-484.2 Extension or reduction upon poll of certain subscribers
A. Upon petition of five percent but in no case less than twenty-five of the subscribers in an established telephone exchange for an extension or ...
56-484.3 Powers of Commission not restricted; rules and regulations
Nothing in this article shall restrict or alter the power of the Commission to change service areas on its own, on petition of any telephone ...
56-484.4 through 56-484.6
Repealed by Acts 2006, c. 780, cl. 2, effective January 1, 2007. For expiration of repeal, see Editor's notes. ...
56-484.7 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1996, c. 68. ...
56-484.7:1 Offering of communications services
A. A county, city, town, electric commission or board, industrial development authority, or economic development authority, other than one in a locality that (i) is ...
56-484.7:2 Approval
The Commission shall find that it is in the public interest to approve the offering of qualifying communications services as defined in § 56-484.7:1 unless ...
56-484.7:3 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2002, cc. 479 and 489. ...
56-484.7:4 Revocation of Commission approval
The Commission may revoke its approval of a petition under § 56-484.7:1 no earlier than five years after such approval if it finds (i) that ...
56-484.8 through 56-484.11
Repealed by Acts 2000, c. 1064. ...
56-484.12 Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Automatic location identification" or "ALI" means a telecommunications network capability that enables the ...
56-484.12:1 Notice to subscribers of lack of access to E-911.
Each provider of Voice-over-Internet protocol service in the Commonwealth shall provide to its subscribers in the Commonwealth any notice that the provider is required to ...
56-484.12:2 Plan for access to E-911.
If the Federal Communications Commission requires all providers of Voice-over-Internet protocol service to prepare and file with it a plan setting forth how the provider ...
56-484.13 Wireless E-911 Services Board; membership; terms; compensation
A. The Wireless E-911 Services Board is hereby created. The Board shall plan, promote and offer assistance: 1. In the statewide development, deployment, and maintenance ...
56-484.14 Powers and duties of Wireless E-911 Services Board
The Board shall have the power and duty to: 1. Make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or incidental to the performance of ...
56-484.15 Wireless Carrier E-911 Cost Recovery Subcommittee established
A. There is hereby established a Wireless Carrier E-911 Cost Recovery Subcommittee of the Board. The Subcommittee shall (i) meet only to determine whether costs ...
56-484.16 Local emergency telecommunications requirements; use of digits "9-1-1."
A. On or before July 1, 2003, every county, city or town in the Commonwealth shall be served by an E-911 system, unless an extension ...
56-484.17 Wireless E-911 Fund; uses of Fund; enforcement; audit required
A. There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Wireless E-911 Fund (the Fund). The Fund ...
56-484.18 Designation of official State Police access number; blocking caller identification prohibite...
A. Telephone number #77 is hereby designated as an official access number for wireless telephone usage in the Commonwealth for access to designated offices of ...
56-484.19 Definitions
As used in this article: "Alternative method of providing call location information" means a method of maintaining and operating a multiline telephone system that ensures ...
56-484.20 Charges for emergency calls
The MLTS provider of any multiline telephone system shall maintain and operate the MLTS in such manner that an individual placing an emergency call from ...
56-484.21 Instructions for emergency calling
Commencing July 1, 2009, the MLTS provider of any multiline telephone system shall either (i) demonstrate or provide written instructions to each new user of ...
56-484.22 Access to PSAPs from telephone stations on MLTS
Commencing July 1, 2009, the MLTS provider of any multiline telephone system shall maintain and operate the MLTS in such manner that a telephone call ...
56-484.23 Provision of emergency call information
A. The MLTS provider of any multiline telephone system that is acquired or installed on or after July 1, 2009, commencing on the date of ...
56-484.24 Liability
A. An MLTS provider, its employees or agents shall not be liable to any person for damages incurred as a result of any act or ...
56-484.25 Exemption for certain counties
Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, the provisions of §§ 56-484.22 and 56-484.23 shall not apply with respect to any multiline telephone ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009