Section 759.595 – Criteria for granting application for service; effect on other territorial allocation.

(1) The Public Utility Commission shall grant an application filed under ORS 759.590 if the commission finds that:

(a) The telecommunications utility in whose territory the unserved person is located has declined to serve without line extension charges;

(b) Another telecommunications utility has agreed to provide local exchange telecommunications service to the unserved person with no line extension charge or with line extension charges lower than those offered by the telecommunications utility in whose territory the unserved person is located; and

(c) Approval of the application is not contrary to the public interest.

(2) Any order of the commission issued under subsection (1) of this section shall not have the effect of changing any territory allocated under ORS 758.400 to 758.475 that is being provided with local exchange telecommunications service. [1989 c.574 §4; 1991 c.307 §3]