As used in ORS 759.500 to 759.570, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Allocated territory” means a geographic area for which the Public Utility Commission has allocated to no more than one person the authority to provide local exchange telecommunications service, the boundaries of which are set forth on an exchange map filed with and […]
(1) The purpose of establishing allocated territories under ORS 759.500 to 759.570 is to ensure that telecommunications utilities, cooperative corporations and municipalities certified by the Public Utility Commission to provide local exchange telecommunications service: (a) Provide adequate and safe service to the customers of this state; and (b) Serve all customers in an adequate and […]
(1) A telecommunications utility, cooperative corporation or municipality that desires to provide local exchange telecommunications service in a territory that is not served by another person providing a similar local exchange telecommunications service may apply to the Public Utility Commission for an order allocating the territory to the applicant. The application shall include an exchange […]
(1) The rights acquired by an allocation of territory may only be assigned or transferred with the approval of the Public Utility Commission after a finding that the assignment or transfer is not contrary to the public interest. (2) The commission may approve a transfer of territory previously allocated only upon receipt of an application […]
In the event an allocated territory is served by a person that is not authorized by the Public Utility Commission to provide local exchange telecommunications service in the territory, an aggrieved person or the commission may file an action in the circuit court for any county in which is located some or all of the […]
(1) ORS 759.500 to 759.570 may not be construed or applied to restrict the powers granted to cities to issue franchises or to restrict the exercise of the power of condemnation by a municipality. If a municipality condemns or otherwise acquires equipment, plant or facilities from another person for rendering local exchange telecommunications service, the […]
The Public Utility Commission has power to require any telecommunications utility, after a public hearing of all parties interested, to extend its line, plant or system into, and to render service to, a locality not already served when the existing public convenience and necessity requires such extension and service. However, no such extension of service […]
As used in ORS 759.585 to 759.595, “unserved person” means a person: (1) Who does not have local exchange telecommunications service; (2) Who is applying for residential service or business service with five or fewer lines; and (3) Who, for the initiation of such service, would be required to pay line extension charges. [1989 c.574 […]
(1) An unserved person may file an application with the Public Utility Commission for an order directing another telecommunications utility to provide local exchange service to the unserved person. (2) The commission shall adopt rules which prescribe the form of an application filed under subsection (1) of this section and which provide for reasonable notice […]
(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 […]
