The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 30 V.S.A. § 2701)
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§ 2701. Transfer of messages and interchange of service
Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint,
finds that a physical connection can reasonably be made between the lines of two or
more telephone companies or two or more telegraph companies whose lines can be made
to form a continuous line of communication, by the construction and maintenance of
suitable connections, for the transfer of messages or conversations, and that public
convenience and necessity will be subserved thereby, or finds that two or more telegraph
or telephone companies have failed to establish joint rates, tolls, or charges for
service by or over their lines, and that joint rates, tolls, or charges ought to be
established, the Commission may, by its order, (a) require that the connection be
made, except where the purpose of the connection is primarily to secure the transmission
of local messages or conversations between points within the same city or town, and
that conversations be transmitted and messages transferred over the connection under
the rules as the Commission may establish, and (b) may prescribe through lines and
joint rates, tolls, and charges to be made and to be used, observed, and enforced
in the future. If the telephone or telegraph companies do not agree upon the division
of the joint rates, tolls, or charges established by the Commission over the through
lines, the Commission may, after further hearing, establish the division by supplemental
order. (Amended 1961, No. 180, § 2; 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 397, eff. July 1, 2024.)