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AR Code § 23-17-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-102. Railroads may operate telegraphs and telephones — Authority

 Any railroad company incorporated by the laws of or operating lines of railroad within this state, upon filing its assent to this section and §§ 23-17-101, 23-17-103 — 23-17-108, and 23-17-113 in the office of the Secretary of State, shall thereby become clothed with the rights, powers, and duties provided for telegraph and telephone companies.
AR Code § 23-17-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-103. Condemnation proceedings upon failure to secure right-of-way

 In the event that the telegraph or telephone companies upon application to such individuals, railroads, or turnpike companies fail to secure a right-of-way by consent, contract, or agreement, then the telegraph or telephone corporation shall have the right to proceed to procure the condemnation of the property, lands, rights, privileges, and easements in the manner prescribed by law for taking private property for right-of-way for railroads, as provided by § 18-15-1201 et seq.
AR Code § 23-17-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-104. Right of entry for construction — Liability for damages

 Wherever any telegraph or telephone company desires to construct its lines on or along the lands of individuals, on the right-of-way and structures of any railroads, or upon and along any turnpike, the telegraph or telephone company by its agents may have the right to peacefully enter upon the lands, structures, or right-of-way and survey, locate, and lay out its lines thereon, being liable, however, for any damage that may result by reason of such acts.
AR Code § 23-17-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-105. Contract for exclusive privileges prohibited

 No telegraph or telephone corporation organized by virtue of the laws of this state or doing business in this state by virtue of the laws of any other state, or of the United States, shall have the power to contract with the owners of lands or the right in lands, or with any person or corporation, for the rights to erect, operate, or maintain telegraph, telephone, or other lines or works for the speedy transmission of intelligence over his or her or its lands, privileges, rights, or easements to the exclusion of other persons or corporations authorized to erect and operate lines and works for speedy transmission of intelligence.
AR Code § 23-17-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-106. Priority of dispatch of messages — Confidentiality

 (a)  (1) In consideration of the right-of-way over the public property conceded in this section and §§ 23-17-101 — 23-17-105, 23-17-107 , 23-17-108, and 23-17-113, every telephone corporation in the case of war, insurrection, or civil commotion of any kind and for the arrest of criminals shall give immediate dispatch at the usual rates of charge to any message connected therewith of any officer of the state or of the United States.  (2) Any officer or agent of a telephone company who fails or refuses to carry out the provisions of the preceding subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor.    (b)  (1) All other messages, including those received from other telephone companies, shall be transmitted in order of their delivery, correctly and without unreasonable delay, and shall be strictly confidential. However, arrangements may be made with the publishers of newspapers for the transmission of intelligence of general and public interest.  (2) Any officer or agent of a telephone company who willfully violates the provisions of this subsection is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.  (3) The telephone company so violating this section is liable in damages to the party aggrieved.
AR Code § 23-17-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-107. Interception of message — Injuring equipment — Penalty

 If any person without authority intercepts a dispatch or message transmitted by telephone or willfully destroys or injures any telephone pole, wire, cable, or fixture, he or she is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
AR Code § 23-17-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-108. Refusal to transmit message — Penalty

 Every telegraph and telephone company doing business in this state, under a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each and every refusal to do so, must transmit over its wires to localities on its lines for any individual, corporation, or other telegraph or telephone company such messages, dispatches, or correspondence as may be tendered to it by, or to be transmitted to, any individual, corporation, or other telegraph or telephone companies at the price customarily asked and obtained for the transmission of similar messages, dispatches, or correspondence without discrimination as to charges or promptness. The penalty prescribed in this section shall be recoverable in any court through proper form of law, one-half (½) of which shall go to the prosecutor and one-half (½) to the state.
AR Code § 23-17-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-110. Telegraph companies — Schedule of rates

 In order to ascertain what the regular charges of such companies are, all telegraph companies doing business in this state are required to keep in all their offices in this state a schedule of the regular rates charged by them, which shall be open to the inspection of any person interested therein.
AR Code § 23-17-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-112. Damages for mental anguish

 (a) All telegraph companies doing business in this state shall be liable in damages for mental anguish or suffering even in the absence of bodily injury or pecuniary loss for negligence in receiving, transmitting, or delivering messages.  (b) In all actions under this section, the jury may award such damages as it concludes resulted from the negligence of the telegraph company.  (c) Nothing contained in this section shall abridge the rights and remedies now provided by law against telegraph companies, and the rights and remedies provided for by this section shall be in addition to those now existing.
AR Code § 23-17-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-113. Telephone service to be supplied without discrimination — Complaint to commission

 (a)  (1) Every telephone company doing business in this state and engaged in a general telephone business shall supply all applicants for telephone connection and facilities without discrimination or partiality, within ten (10) days after written demand therefor, if the applicants comply or offer to comply with the reasonable rules of the company.  (2) No telephone company shall impose any condition or restriction upon any applicant that is not imposed impartially upon all persons or companies in similar situations. Nor shall the company discriminate against any individual or company engaged in lawful business by requiring as a condition for furnishing the facilities that they shall not be used in the business of the applicant or otherwise.    (b) Upon failure of any telephone company to comply with the written demand for telephone connection and facilities, the applicant may file a complaint with the Arkansas Public Service Commission under the provisions of § 23-3-119. The commission may make such temporary and final orders relative to the furnishing of such connection and facilities as the facts may justify.
AR Code § 23-17-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-116. Fee for initiation of residential telephone service to be payable in installments

 (a) The fee or charge imposed by any telephone company doing business in this state for the initiation of local telephone service at a residential location, but not including contributions in aid of construction, if any, shall be billed to the residential customer in equal monthly installments over a period of six (6) months at the option of the customer if the total installation charges exceed one hundred dollars ($100).  (b) If the total installation charges exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) but do not exceed one hundred dollars ($100), the residential customer shall at the option of the customer be billed in equal monthly installments over a period of three (3) months.
AR Code § 23-17-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-119. Surcharges to provide telecommunications for deaf and hearing impaired — Definitions

 (a) As used in this section:  (1) “Commercial mobile radio service” means the same as defined at § 12-10-303; and  (2) “Prepaid wireless telephone service” means the same as defined at § 12-10-303.    (b)  (1) To fund the equipment distribution program established by § 20-79-401 et seq., the Arkansas Public Service Commission may impose a surcharge of up to:  (A) Two-hundredths of a dollar ($0.02) per subject access line per month; and  (B) Two-hundredths of a dollar ($0.02) per working subject telephone number per month.    (2) Surcharges imposed by the commission under subdivisions (b)(1)(A) and (B) of this section shall:  (A) Be identical; and  (B) Not apply to prepaid wireless telephone service.      (c) The surcharges levied under this section shall be collected by the local exchange carriers and commercial mobile radio service providers from their customers and remitted to the Department of Finance and Administration for deposit as special revenues into the State Treasury to the credit of the Telecommunications Equipment Fund for the equipment distribution program under § 20-79-401 et seq.  (d) If revenues collected under this section exceed the costs of operating the program established by § 20-79-401 et seq., and if the excess at any time equals a three-year average of expenditures under this section and § 20-79-401 et seq., then the collection of the surcharge shall cease until one-half (½) of the surplus has been exhausted.
AR Code § 23-17-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-120. Establishment of calling plans

 (a)  (1) The Arkansas Public Service Commission by rule shall establish calling plans in telephone exchanges in the state.  (2) The commission shall determine the size of exchanges that will be eligible for the calling plan.    (b)  (1) The commission may establish end-user charges for the plan in an amount not to exceed two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per month per access line to be applied in the affected exchanges. In addition the commission may establish usage-based charges or other end-user charges as appropriate to fund the plan.  (2) The plan shall be funded by customer charges under subdivision (b)(1) of this section and by the Arkansas Calling Plan Fund established by § 23-17-404(e).    (c) The plan may vary among telephone exchanges based on factors determined by the commission.  (d) In establishing the calling plan, the commission shall consider basic local exchange rates, calling scopes, the ability of customers to call the county seat, access to industry and business, the cost of providing the calling plan, and the availability of funding from the Arkansas Calling Plan Fund.  (e) The plan provided to different telephone exchanges may vary in minutes in the plan and the cost to customers for the plan and may be either mandatory or optional plans.  (f) Any mandatory plan shall be subject to approval through a balloting process by the customers of the exchanges that would be subject to the monthly end-user charge associated with the proposed plan. A minimum of fifty-one percent (51%) of the ballots returned must be in favor of the proposed calling plan in order for the proposed calling plan to be implemented.  (g)  (1) Incumbent local exchange carriers shall not be entitled to Arkansas Universal Service Fund [superseded] recovery for lost toll revenues associated with the implementation of these calling plans.  (2) In establishing the plans, the commission is required to ensure that all costs to incumbent local exchange carriers of implementing such plans, including, but not limited to, lost toll and access revenues, network and equipment costs, and costs incurred to terminate associated plan traffic are fully compensated by the combination of end-user charges and funds provided to each incumbent local exchange carrier from the Arkansas Calling Plan Fund.  (3) Lost toll revenues shall be determined by a two-month study of actual toll usage and revenues for traffic on the proposed route.
AR Code § 23-17-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-121. Agreements for special terminating access rates or plans

 (a) Two (2) or more eligible telecommunications carriers may enter into an agreement under this section for special terminating access rates or plans between exchanges of the parties to the agreement. The agreement is conditioned upon the approval of the Arkansas Public Service Commission.  (b) The commission may approve the agreement only if the commission determines that:  (1) The agreement is needed to enhance or improve calling between communities of interest or to assist citizens to call their county seat;  (2) The agreement is in the best interest of the customers of the eligible telecommunications carriers;  (3) The special terminating access rate or plan recovers the cost of providing the service; and  (4) The agreement does not detrimentally impact the customers of other telecommunications carriers in Arkansas.    (c)  (1) The approval may provide for special terminating access rates that shall be available only to the companies entering into the agreement.  (2) No other company may take advantage of the special access rates. In all other instances, the filed-rate doctrine shall continue to apply.    (d) Any reduced revenue or additional costs caused by the agreement shall not be recovered from the Arkansas Universal Service Fund [superseded].
AR Code § 23-17-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 23-17-122. Annual certification — Definition

 (a) As used in this section, “provider” means an entity that provides a telecommunications service, a Voice over Internet Protocol, commonly known as “VoIP”, service, a commercial radio service, or a similar service.  (b) Beginning July 1, 2019, and annually thereafter, a provider shall file with the Arkansas Public Service Commission documentation demonstrating that the provider has implemented current and applicable technologies to identify and block telecommunications that violate § 4-88-107(a)(11), § 4-88-108(a), § 4-99-108(c), or § 4-99-302(b), as applicable, taking into consideration applicable state and federals laws, federal regulations, and costs.  (c)  (1) The commission shall promulgate rules necessary to implement this section.  (2)  (A) When adopting the initial rules to implement this section, the final rule shall be filed with the Secretary of State for adoption under § 25-15-204(f):  (i) On or before July 1, 2020; or  (ii) If approval under § 10-3-309 has not occurred by July 1, 2020, as soon as practicable after approval under § 10-3-309.    (B) The commission shall file the proposed rule with the Legislative Council under § 10-3-309(c) sufficiently in advance of July 1, 2020, so that the Legislative Council may consider the rule for approval before July 1, 2020.      (d) The commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all complaints regarding a provider's compliance with this section.  (e) A provider filing documentation under subsection (b) of this section shall be deemed to be in compliance with this section until the provider is subject to a final order issued by the commission finding the provider has failed to implement current and applicable technologies according to subsection (b) of this section.
AR Code § 23-17-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 2 - Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Act|§ 23-17-201. Title

 This subchapter may be cited as the “Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Act”.
AR Code § 23-17-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 2 - Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Act|§ 23-17-202. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Acquire” means and includes construct, acquire by purchase, lease, devise, gift, or other modes of acquisition;  (2) “Board” means a board of directors of a corporation organized under this subchapter;  (3) “Commission” means the Arkansas Public Service Commission;  (4) “Cooperative” means a corporation organized and operating pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter;  (5) “Federal agency” includes the United States and any department, administration, commission, board, bureau, office, establishment, agency, authority, or other instrumentality of the United States;  (6) “Member” means an incorporator of a cooperative and each person thereafter lawfully admitted to and retaining membership therein;  (7) “Municipality” means any incorporated city or town of this state;  (8) “Obligations” includes bonds, notes, debentures, interim certificates, or receipts and all other evidences of indebtedness issued by a cooperative. However, obligations shall not include amounts represented by capital stock, certificates of membership, or amounts due as patronage profits;  (9) “Person” includes any natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, or partnership;  (10) “Rural area” means any area within this state which is located outside the boundaries of any incorporated or unincorporated city, town, or village having a population in excess of two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants according to the last preceding federal census;  (11) “State agency” includes the State of Arkansas and any department, administration, commission, board, bureau, office, establishment, agency, authority, instrumentality, or any political subdivision of the State of Arkansas;  (12) “Telecommunications company” means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity that offers telecommunications services to the public for compensation; and  (13) “Telecommunications service” means the offering to the public for compensation the transmission of voice, data, or other electronic information at any frequency over any part of the electromagnetic spectrum, notwithstanding any other use of the associated facilities. Such term does not include radio and television broadcast or distribution services or the provision or publishing of yellow pages, regardless of the entity providing such services or services to the extent that such services are used in connection with the operation of an electric utility system owned by a government entity.
AR Code § 23-17-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 2 - Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Act|§ 23-17-204. Purpose of cooperative

 Cooperative nonprofit membership corporations either with or without capital stock may be organized under this subchapter for the purpose of furnishing telecommunications service and other services to the widest practicable number of users of such services.
AR Code § 23-17-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 2 - Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Act|§ 23-17-206. Jurisdiction of commission

 Cooperatives doing business in this state pursuant to this subchapter shall be subject to the general jurisdiction of the Arkansas Public Service Commission. Jurisdiction shall be exercised by the commission in the same manner and to the same extent as provided by law for the regulation, supervision, or control of telecommunications companies, subject, however, to all the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 23-17-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 2 - Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Act|§ 23-17-207. Incorporators

 Any three (3) or more natural persons of the age of twenty-one (21) or more who are residents of this state may act as incorporators of a cooperative to be organized under this subchapter by executing articles of incorporation as provided in § 23-17-210.
AR Code § 23-17-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Subchapter 2 - Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Act|§ 23-17-208. Cooperative names

 The words “telecommunications cooperative” or “telephone cooperative” shall not be used in the corporate names of corporations organized under the laws of this state or authorized to do business herein, other than cooperatives organized pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.