Effective – 28 Aug 1975 392.010. Telephone and telegraph corporations, by whom and how formed. — Any number of persons, not less than five, being subscribers to the stock of any contemplated telephone or magnetic telegraph company, may be formed into a corporation for the purpose of constructing, owning, operating and maintaining lines of telephone […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2020, 2 histories 392.020. Articles, where filed — powers when incorporated. — 1. The original articles of association shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which the corporation is to be located, and then be filed in the office of the secretary of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.030. Powers of corporation. — All corporations formed under sections 392.010 to 392.170 shall possess all the powers and privileges granted to corporations by chapter 351, relating to the general powers of private corporations, and be subject to all the provisions thereof except as herein otherwise provided. ——– (RSMo 1939 […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.040. Election of directors — appointment of officers. — 1. There shall be an annual election of directors to serve for the ensuing year, notice of which, appointing a time and place, shall be given by the directors chosen, as provided by law, for the first annual election, and thereafter […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1975 392.050. Directors, procedure for election of. — All elections for directors shall conform to the requirements of law governing private business corporations. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 5324, A.L. 1975 S.B. 89) Prior revisions: 1929 § 4919; 1919 § 10130; 1909 § 3324
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.060. Meeting of board. — The board of directors may at any time meet for the transaction of business, upon a call of the president of the company. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 5325) Prior revisions: 1929 § 4920; 1919 § 10131; 1909 § 3325 CROSS REFERENCE: Quorum in membership telephone […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.070. Consolidation of companies. — Any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, under the laws of this state, may at any regular meeting of the stockholders thereof, by vote of persons holding a majority of the shares of the stock of such company, unite or consolidate […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1974 392.080. May construct lines on public roads — consent of city required — constructive easement acquired, when. — Companies organized under the provisions of sections 392.010 to 392.170, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining telephone or magnetic telegraph lines are authorized to set their poles, piers, abutments, wires, and […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.090. Mode of construction may be directed, by whom. — The mayor and aldermen or board of common council of any city, and the trustees of any incorporated town, through which the lines of any telephone or telegraph company are to pass, may, by ordinance or otherwise, specify where the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.100. May enter upon lands, when. — Such companies are also authorized to enter upon any land, whether owned by private persons in fee or in any less estate, or by any corporation, whether acquired by purchase or by virtue of any provision in the charter of such corporation for […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.110. No contract for exclusive use of land. — No company shall have power to contract with any owner of land for the right to erect or maintain a telephone or telegraph line over his lands, to the exclusion of the lines of other companies organized under the provisions of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.120. Power to own and maintain lines. — Any company incorporated as herein provided may contract, own, use and maintain any line or lines of telephone or magnetic telegraph, whether wholly within or wholly or partly beyond the limits of this state, and shall have power to lease or attach […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.130. Companies to provide facilities to meet public needs — penalty for failure to deliver messages. — It shall be the duty of every telegraph or telephone company, incorporated or unincorporated, operating any telephone or telegraph line in this state, to provide sufficient facilities at all its offices for the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.140. Duties in forwarding dispatches over other lines. — Where the person sending the dispatch desires to have it forwarded over the lines of other telephone or telegraph companies, whose termini are respectively within the limits of the usual delivery of such companies, to the place of final destination, and […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.150. Employees to notify sender when message cannot be transmitted immediately — penalty. — In all cases where application is made to any telephone or telegraph company, or the operator, agent, clerk or servant thereof, to send a dispatch, it shall be the duty of such operator, agent, clerk or […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.160. Penalty for transmitting false communications. — If any officer, manager, agent or operator of any telephone or telegraph line operating in this state, or any other person, shall knowingly transmit by such telephone or telegraph line any false communication or intelligence with intent to injure anyone, or to speculate […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 392.170. Liability for negligence in transmitting and delivering messages — not to disclose contents — penalty. — Every telephone or telegraph company now organized under the laws of this state, and every telephone or telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of any other […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1997 392.175. Operator services, live operator to be provided, when. — 1. As used in this section, the meanings of words and phrases shall have the same meaning as given to such words and phrases in section 386.020. 2. A telecommunications company that provides operator services within this state shall enable […]
