Every telegraph company shall establish and maintain offices for the transaction of business with the public in its capacity as a common carrier, at each city, town, and village convenient to its routes, if, in the opinion of the public service commission, the public convenience and necessity requires it. An office once established shall not […]
A telegraph or telephone company shall transmit all written messages between points where it may have offices within the state. If the telegraph or telephone company shall receive any message or matter at one of its offices in this state for transmission to a person addressed at a point where it has an office in […]
A telegraph or telephone company shall deliver all messages addressed to a person residing or having a place of business in any city, town, or village where it may have an office, or within one mile of its office. If any telegraph or telephone company shall receive any message or matter for transmission, and shall […]
In any suit against a telegraph company for nondelivery or failure to promptly deliver any telegram in this state, the copy of the telegram received and transcribed by such company’s operator at the office of final destination shall be conclusive evidence in the hands of the bona fide addressee of the filing of the original […]
Telegraph or telephone companies or associations shall be bound, on application of any officer of this state, or of the United States, in case of any war, insurrection, riot, or other civil commotion or resistance of public authority, or for the prevention and punishment of crime, or for the arrest of persons suspected or charged […]
All companies or associations of persons incorporated or organized for the purpose of constructing telegraph or telephone lines shall be authorized to construct the same, and to set up and erect their posts and fixtures along and across any of the public highways, streets, or waters, and along and across all turnpikes, railroads, and canals, […]
The board of supervisors of any county, and the governing authorities of any city, town or village, through which any telegraph or telephone line may pass, shall have power to regulate, within their respective limits, the manner in which the same shall be constructed and maintained, with a view to the safe and convenient use […]
Telegraph and telephone companies or associations shall be responsible for any damages which any person shall sustain by the erection, continuance, and use of telegraph and telephone lines and the fixtures thereof. In any action for the recovery thereof brought by any owner or possessor of land over or along which such line may run, […]
Telegraph and telephone companies, for the purpose of constructing new lines, are empowered to exercise the right of eminent domain, as provided in Chapter 27 of Title 11, Mississippi Code of 1972.
All telephone lines, exchanges and properties in any county of the State of Mississippi may be consolidated and merged so as to create and establish a telephone system in such county and to enable all patrons of such telephone properties to secure telephonic service over and through one system. When such merger and consolidation of […]
The consolidation and merger of the said telephone properties in any county or in any of the municipalities located in such county shall not take effect until the individuals, associations or corporations owning the said telephone properties which are operating in such county or such municipalities shall have first obtained from the governing authority of […]
Nothing in Sections 77-9-719 and 77-9-721, shall be construed so as to require and compel any rural telephone system now being operated in any of the counties of the State of Mississippi, or that may be hereafter established in any of the said counties, to merge and consolidate with each other, or with any other […]
It shall be unlawful for any telegraph company, telephone company, telegraph press association, railroad company, or any leased wire firm or private individual doing business in this state, and employing telegraphers for the purpose of transmitting telegraph dispatches for the general public, or any press association or private business, or in the operation of any […]
It shall be unlawful for any two or more such telegraph or telephone companies, telegraph press associations, railroad companies or leased wire firms or private individuals doing business in this state and employing telegraphers, to conspire, contract, mutually agree or co-operate to discriminate against, blacklist or refuse employment to any telegrapher merely on account of […]
Any such telegraph or telephone company, telegraph press association, railroad company or leased wire firm or private individual violating Section 77-9-725, shall be liable in actual and exemplary damages to the person so discriminated against. Any telegraph or telephone company, telegraph press association, railroad company, or leased wire firm or private individual violating Section 77-9-727, […]
