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TN Code § 65-29-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-116. Effect of Consolidation or Merger

 The effect of consolidation or merger shall be as follows:   The several cooperatives, parties to the consolidation or merger, shall be a single cooperative, which, in the case of a consolidation, shall be the new cooperative provided for in the articles of consolidation, and, in the case of a merger, shall be that cooperative designated in the articles of merger as the surviving cooperative, and the separate existence of all cooperatives, parties to the consolidation or merger, except the new or surviving cooperative, shall cease;   Such new or surviving cooperative shall have all the rights, privileges, immunities, and powers and shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities of a cooperative organized under this chapter, and shall possess all the rights, privileges, immunities and franchises as well of a public as of a private nature, and all property, real and personal, applications for membership, all debts due on whatever account, and all other choses in action, of each of the consolidating or merging cooperatives, and furthermore all and every interest of, or belonging or due to, each of the cooperatives so consolidated or merged, shall be taken and deemed to be transferred to and vested in such new or surviving cooperative without further act or deed; and the title to any real estate, or any interest therein, under the laws of this state vested in any such cooperatives shall not revert or be in any way impaired by reason of such consolidation or merger;   Such new or surviving cooperative shall thenceforth be responsible and liable for all of the liabilities and obligations of each of the cooperatives so consolidated or merged, and any claim existing, or action or proceeding pending, by or against any of such cooperatives may be prosecuted as if such consolidation or merger had not taken place, but such new or surviving cooperatives may be substituted in its place;   Neither the rights of creditors nor any liens upon the property of any such cooperatives shall be impaired by such consolidation or merger; and   In the case of a consolidation, the articles of consolidation shall be deemed to be the articles of incorporation of the new cooperative; and in the case of a merger, the articles of incorporation of the surviving cooperative shall be deemed to be amended to the extent, if any, that changes in the articles of incorporation of the surviving cooperative are provided for in the articles of merger.
TN Code § 65-29-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-119. Filing of Articles of Incorporation, Etc

 Articles of incorporation, amendment, consolidation, merger, conversion, or dissolution, as the case may be, when executed and acknowledged and accompanied by such affidavits as may be required by applicable provisions of this chapter, shall be presented to the secretary of state for filing in the records of the office of the secretary of state. If the secretary of state shall find that the articles presented conform to the requirements of this chapter, the secretary of state shall, upon the payment of the fees as in this chapter provided, file the articles so presented in the records of the office of the secretary of state and, upon such filing, the incorporation, amendment, consolidation, merger, conversion or dissolution provided for therein shall be in effect. The secretary of state immediately upon the filing in the office of the secretary of state of any articles pursuant to this chapter shall transmit a certified copy thereof to the county clerk of the county in which the principal office of each cooperative or corporation affected by such incorporation, amendment, consolidation, merger, conversion, or dissolution shall be located. The clerk of any county, upon receipt of any such certified copy, shall file and index the same in the records of the clerk's office, but the failure of the secretary of state or of a clerk of a county to comply with this section shall not invalidate such articles. This section shall also apply to certificates of election to dissolve and affidavits of compliance executed pursuant to § 65-29-118(b)(2).
TN Code § 65-29-120 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-120. Filing Fees

 The secretary of state shall charge and collect for the filing of:   Articles of incorporation, twenty-five dollars ($25.00);   Articles of amendment, fifteen dollars ($15.00);   Articles of consolidation or merger, fifteen dollars ($15.00);   Articles of conversion, fifteen dollars ($15.00);   Certificate of election to dissolve, fifteen dollars ($15.00);   Articles of dissolution, fifteen dollars ($15.00); and   Certificate of change of principal office, five dollars ($5.00).
TN Code § 65-29-121 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-121. Use of Revenue

  Revenues of a corporation for any fiscal year may be used to:  Defray expenses of the cooperative and of the operation and maintenance of its facilities during such fiscal year;   Pay the interest and principal obligations of the cooperative coming due in such fiscal year;   Finance, or to provide a reserve for the financing of, the construction or acquisition by, the cooperative of additional facilities to the extent determined by the board of directors;   Provide a reasonable reserve for working capital;   Provide a reserve for the payment of indebtedness of the cooperative maturing more than one (1) year after the date of issuance of such indebtedness in an amount not less than the total of the interest and principal payments in respect thereof required to be made during the next following fiscal year;   Provide a fund for education and the dissemination of information concerning the effective use of telephone service and other services made available by the cooperative; and   Provide reserves against the contingencies of catastrophe or calamity, including, but not limited to, ice breaks, cyclone, tornado, high winds, snows, etc.; reserves for bad debt losses, major service losses, such as discontinuance of service by large plants or government installations with a large number of telephones.     All operating revenues in excess of the amounts necessary to pay expenses of operating and maintenance of its facilities and interest during the fiscal year shall be distributed by the cooperative to its patrons as either:  A refund to the patrons, which refund may in the discretion of the governing body be:  A credit on the books of the cooperative as a capital credit;   In cash; or   A combination of subdivisions (b)(1)(A) and (B); or     A general rate reduction.     The amount of each individual patron's credit as in subdivision (b)(1) shall be the same percentage of the total funds available for credit to patrons as such patron contributed to the total patronage of the cooperative for the period involved.
TN Code § 65-29-123 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-123. Nonliability of Members for Debts of Cooperative

 The private property of the members of a cooperative shall be exempt from execution for the debts of the cooperative, and no member shall be liable or responsible for any debts of the cooperative.
TN Code § 65-29-124 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-124. Mortgages

 Any mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument executed by a cooperative or foreign corporation transacting business in this state pursuant to this chapter, which, by its terms, creates a lien upon real and personal property then owned or after-acquired, and which is recorded as a mortgage of real property in any county in which such property is located or is to be located, shall have the same force and effect as if the mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument were also recorded or filed in the proper office in such county as a mortgage of personal property. Recordation of any such mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument shall cause the lien thereof to attach to all after-acquired property of the mortgagor of the nature therein described as being mortgaged or pledged thereby immediately upon the acquisition of such property by the mortgagor, and such lien shall be superior to all claims of creditors of the mortgagor and purchasers of such property and to all other liens, except liens of prior record and tax liens, affecting such property.
TN Code § 65-29-125 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-125. Exercise of Eminent Domain

  No property which is owned or held for public use, nor any interest therein, shall be condemned pursuant to the authority granted in § 65-29-104 if in the judgment of the court the condemnation of such property or interest therein will obstruct, prevent, burden, interfere with, or unduly inconvenience the continued use of such property for the public use of which it is devoted at the time the same is sought to be condemned. Where title to any property sought to be condemned is defective, it shall be passed by decree of court. Where condemnation proceedings become necessary, the court in which such proceedings are filed shall, upon application by the cooperative and upon the posting of a bond with the clerk of the court in such amount as the court may deem commensurate with the value of the property, order that the right of possession shall issue immediately or as soon and upon such terms as the court, in its discretion, may deem proper and just. In cases where condemnation of property already devoted to a public use is sought, no order as to right of possession shall issue until it is finally determined that the condemnor is entitled to condemn such property.    If such cooperative or company has actually taken possession of land, occupying it for the purpose of internal improvement, without condemnation or without the consent of the owner, the owner of such land may petition for a jury of inquest, in which case the same proceedings may be had, as near as may be, as set out in title 29, chapter 16, or amendments thereto; or the owner may sue for damages in the ordinary way, in which case the jury shall lay off the land in metes and bounds and assess the damages, as upon the trial of an appeal from the return of a jury of inquest.   The owner of land shall, in such cases, commence proceedings within twelve (12) months after the land has been actually taken possession of, and the work of the proposed internal improvement begun; saving, however, to unknown owners and nonresidents, twelve (12) months after actual knowledge of such occupation, not exceeding three (3) years, and saving to persons under the disabilities of infancy and unsoundness of mind, twelve (12) months after such disability is removed, but not exceeding ten (10) years.
TN Code § 65-29-126 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-126. Waiver of Notice

 Whenever any notice is required to be given under this chapter or under the articles of incorporation or bylaws of a cooperative, waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time fixed for the giving of such notice, shall be deemed equivalent to such notice. If a person entitled to notice of a meeting shall attend such meeting, such attendance shall constitute a waiver of notice of the meeting, except in case the attendance is for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting shall not have been lawfully called or convened.
TN Code § 65-29-127 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-127. Acknowledgments by Officers, Directors or Members

 No person who is authorized to take acknowledgments under the laws of this state shall be disqualified from taking acknowledgments of instruments executed in favor of a cooperative or to which it is a party, by reason of being an officer, director, or member of such cooperative.
TN Code § 65-29-128 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-128. Foreign Corporations

 Any corporation organized on a nonprofit or a cooperative basis for the purpose of supplying telephone service and owning or operating telephone service lines in a state adjacent to this state shall be permitted to construct or acquire extensions of such lines and to transact business in this state without complying with any statute of this state pertaining to the qualification of foreign corporations for the transaction of business in this state. Any such foreign corporation, as a prerequisite to the construction or operation of such extension of its lines into and the transaction of business in this state, shall, by an instrument executed and acknowledged in its behalf by its president or vice president under its corporate seal attested by its secretary, designate the secretary of state its agent to accept service of process in its behalf. In the event any process shall be served upon the secretary of state, the secretary of state shall forthwith forward the same by registered mail to such corporation at the address thereof specified in such instrument. After such designation, such corporation may sue and be sued in the courts of this state and shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities of a cooperative.
TN Code § 65-29-129 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-129. No Exemption From Ad Valorem Taxes

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to exempt cooperatives and foreign corporations furnishing telephone service in this state pursuant to this chapter from ad valorem property taxes. Assessment schedules for such property shall be filed with the comptroller of the treasury. Cooperatives and foreign corporations shall also be subject to the sales and use tax under title 67, chapter 6. The payment of the above taxes shall be in lieu of all other taxes unless it is otherwise specifically provided by law.
TN Code § 65-29-130 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-130. Jurisdiction of Tennessee Public Utility Commission

  Cooperatives and foreign corporations engaged in rendering telephone service in this state pursuant to this chapter fall within the jurisdiction of the Tennessee public utility commission for the sole and specific purposes as set out below:  The establishment of territorial boundaries;   The hearing and determining of disputes arising between one (1) telephone cooperative and other telephone cooperatives, and between telephone cooperatives and any other type of person, corporation, association, or partnership rendering telephone service, relative to and concerning territorial disputes; and   The approval of sales and purchases of operating telephone properties.     Cooperatives and foreign corporations engaged in rendering telephone service in this state pursuant to this chapter fall within the jurisdiction of the comptroller of the treasury for the sole and specific purpose of assessing the cooperative property for ad valorem taxes as provided in § 65-29-129.   Either party shall have the right of appeal from any ruling, order or action by the commission or the comptroller of the treasury under the procedures established by §§ 4-5-322 and 4-5-323.
TN Code § 65-29-131 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-131. Securities Act Exemption

 Title 48, chapter 16 shall not apply to any note, bond, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by any cooperative or foreign corporation transacting business in this state pursuant to this chapter to the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or to any mortgage or deed of trust executed to secure the same. Title 48, chapter 16, as amended, shall not apply to the issuance of membership certificates or equity certificates by any cooperative or any such foreign corporation.
TN Code § 65-29-132 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-132. Construction of Chapter

 This chapter shall be construed liberally. The enumeration of any object, purpose, power, manner, method, or thing shall not be deemed to exclude like or similar objects, purposes, powers, manners, methods, or things.
TN Code § 65-29-133 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 29 - Telephone Cooperatives|§ 65-29-133. Cooperative Elections — Criminal Penalties

  It is a Class C misdemeanor in such cooperative elections to:  Commit any act prohibited in title 2, chapter 19, part 1;   Prepare more ballots than the number of accounts or eligible members of the cooperative holding the election;   Violate the rules or bylaws of the cooperative relative to voting; or   Otherwise engage in any fraudulent conduct in conducting such elections.     Any action under this section shall be brought in the criminal court of the county in which the election is conducted, as, notwithstanding title 2, chapter 17, shall any action challenging an action under § 65-29-109, relative to the filling of an office specified in § 65-29-111.
TN Code § 65-30-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 30 - Radio Common Carriers|§ 65-30-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the “State Radio Common Carrier Act.”
TN Code § 65-30-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 30 - Radio Common Carriers|§ 65-30-102. Declaration of Public Policy

 Upon investigation, the general assembly has determined that the rates, services and operations of radio common carriers are affected with a public interest, and it is hereby declared to be the policy of this state to provide fair regulation of such carriers in the interest of the public, to promote adequate, economical and efficient radio common carrier service to citizens and residents of this state; to provide just and reasonable rates and charges for radio common carrier services without unjust discrimination, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices; to encourage and promote harmony between radio common carriers and their subscribers; to cooperate with other states and with the federal government in promoting and coordinating efforts to effectively regulate radio common carriers in the public interest; and to these ends, to vest authority in the Tennessee public utility commission to regulate radio common carriers generally and their rates, services and operations, in the manner and in accordance with the policies set forth in this chapter. This chapter shall not apply to operations of radio or television broadcast stations licensed and regulated by the federal communications commission.
TN Code § 65-30-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 30 - Radio Common Carriers|§ 65-30-103. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Commission” means the Tennessee public utility commission;   “Radio common carrier” and “carrier” includes any person, firm, corporation, company, association or partnership owning, operating or managing a business of providing radio services to the public on a for-hire basis and under such circumstances as would require a license by the federal communications commission as a miscellaneous common carrier in the domestic public land mobile radio service; provided, that such definition does not include land line telephone or telegraph utilities regulated by the commission or to community antenna television systems; and   “Radio common carrier system” means any facility within this state which is operated to perform for hire the service of radio communications to members of the public who subscribe to such service; and “facility,” as used in this subsection (3), includes all real property, stations, antennae, radios, receivers, transmitters, instruments, appliances, fixtures and other personal property used by a radio common carrier in providing service to its subscribers.
TN Code § 65-30-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 30 - Radio Common Carriers|§ 65-30-104. Applicability of Chapter

  This chapter relates only to “radio common carriers” as defined in § 65-30-103 and shall not apply to mobile radio telephone service offered by land line telephone or telegraph utilities regulated by the commission.   This chapter shall not apply to operations of radio or television broadcast stations licensed and regulated by the federal communications commission.
TN Code § 65-30-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 30 - Radio Common Carriers|§ 65-30-107. Rates

 The commission shall prescribe just and reasonable rates, charges and classifications for the services rendered by a radio common carrier to subscribers. Tariffs shall be in such form and filed and published in such manner and on such notice as the commission may prescribe.
TN Code § 65-30-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 30 - Radio Common Carriers|§ 65-30-108. Duties of Radio Common Carriers

  Each radio common carrier shall provide safe and adequate service, equipment and facilities for the operation of its system.   No radio common carrier shall demand or receive a greater or less or different compensation for providing service than the rates and charges specified in the tariff filed and approved by the commission.   Every radio common carrier shall obey and comply with every rule and regulation and order adopted by the commission under this chapter.
TN Code § 65-30-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 30 - Radio Common Carriers|§ 65-30-109. Abandonment

 No radio common carrier shall abandon all or any part of its system or other property necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public, or discontinue or temporarily suspend all or any part of the service which it is rendering to the public by the use of same, without first obtaining the approval of the commission. In granting such approval, the commission may impose such terms, conditions or requirements as in its judgment are necessary to protect the public interest.
TN Code § 65-30-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 30 - Radio Common Carriers|§ 65-30-110. Interconnection With Land Line Telephone Utility

 Whenever the commission finds that public convenience and necessity require the interconnection of the radio communications facilities of a certificated radio common carrier with the telephone facilities of a land line telephone utility serving all or part of the certificated territory of the radio common carrier, and that such common carrier and land line telephone utility have failed to agree upon such interconnection or the terms and conditions or compensation for the same, the commission may, upon petition of either party, order that such interconnection be permitted, and prescribe a reasonable compensation and reasonable terms and conditions for such interconnection.
TN Code § 65-30-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 30 - Radio Common Carriers|§ 65-30-111. Supervision and Regulation

 The supervision, control and regulation of public utilities are provided for under chapter 4 of this title and these provisions, and specifically, chapter 4, part 3 of this title, shall apply to radio common carriers.