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MO Rev Stat § 392.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.020 - Articles, where filed — powers when incorporated.

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 state, who shall carefully preserve the same in his office, and thereupon the subscribers and the persons who, from time to time, shall become stockholders in such company, and their successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name stated in such articles of association, and shall have power to construct, own, operate and maintain lines of telephone and magnetic telegraph between such points as they may from time to time determine, and to make such reasonable charges for the use of the same as they may establish; and shall have power to lease or attach to their lines other telephone or telegraph lines by lease or purchase; and meetings of the stockholders or of the directors of such corporation may be held for the transaction of business as well without as within this state.  2. A copy of the articles of association, certified by the secretary of state or his deputy, under the seal of the state, shall be prima facie evidence of the incorporation of such company, and of the facts stated therein. Any such company, through its board of directors, with the consent of the persons holding the larger amount in value of the stock, shall have power to reduce its capital stock to any amount not below the actual cost of construction, and in like manner and with like consent to increase the capital stock from time to time as in their judgment may be necessary, not exceeding an amount which, when fully paid up, shall be required for the business of the company, which consent shall be obtained in the manner prescribed by law.  3. Any corporation formed for the purpose of section 392.010, or operating under the provisions of subsection 1 of section 351.030, may amend the articles of association to include a statement referencing the corporation's operating designation as described in 26 U.S.C. Section 501(c)(12), as amended. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5322, A.L. 2020 H.B. 1768)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4917; 1919 § 10128; 1909 § 5322
MO Rev Stat § 392.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.030 - Powers of corporation.

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 § 5337)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4932; 1919 § 10143; 1909 § 3338
MO Rev Stat § 392.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.040 - Election of directors — appointment of officers.

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 by their successors in office; which notice shall be published not less than twenty days previous thereto in a newspaper published in the county where the principal office of the company shall be situated. The directors shall hold their offices for one year and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.  2. They shall elect one of their number to be president of the company, and may appoint such other officers and agents as may be prescribed by the articles of association or bylaws of the company. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5323)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4918; 1919 § 10129; 1909 § 3323)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Quorum of stockholders, powers, 351.267
MO Rev Stat § 392.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.050 - Directors, procedure for election of.

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
MO Rev Stat § 392.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.060 - Meeting of board.

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 corporations, 351.267
MO Rev Stat § 392.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.070 - Consolidation of companies.

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 with any other company or companies now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, under the laws of the United States, or of any state or territory, by consent of the company with which it may consolidate or unite, and such consolidated company so formed may hold, use and enjoy all the rights and privileges conferred by the laws of Missouri on companies separately organized under the provisions of sections 392.010 to 392.170, and be subject to the same liabilities. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5336)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4931; 1919 § 10142; 1909 § 3337
MO Rev Stat § 392.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.080 - May construct lines on public roads — consent of city required — constructive easement acquired, when.

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 other fixtures along, across or under any of the public roads, streets and waters of this state, in such manner as not to incommode the public in the use of such roads, streets and waters; provided, any telegraph or telephone company desiring to place their wires, poles, and other fixtures in any city, they shall first obtain consent from said city through the municipal authorities thereof; and provided, further, that the acceptance, use, or continued use of this right shall create a real property public easement in the public roads, streets and waters in favor of the accepting telephone or magnetic telegraph company so long as it is used for public utility purposes, subject only to public use and the rights of the cities as set out above and such easement shall not terminate or be extinguished by any vacation, abandonment or subsequent sale by the state or any agency or commission thereof; however, nothing contained herein shall alter the authority of the state highways and transportation commission to require the alteration or removal of such facilities pursuant to section 227.240, nor entitle the owner of the facilities to reimbursement for the cost of altering or removing such facilities pursuant to an order of state highways and transportation commission under section 227.240. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5326, A.L. 1974 S.B. 344)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4921; 1919 § 10132; 1909 § 3326  CROSS REFERENCES:  Erection of telephone or telegraph wires in streets or roads, cities of the third class, 77.520  Erection of telephone or telegraph wires in streets or roads, cities of the fourth class, 88.773  Erection of telephone or telegraph wires in streets or roads, consent of county commission, 229.100  Erection of telephone or telegraph wires in streets or roads, state highways and transportation commission consent, 227.240  (1981) Statutory amendment giving telephone utility, but not other utilities, a vested property interest in public land under which its cables and conduits had been placed had a retroactive effect in violation of the ex post facto provision of the Missouri Constitution and the constitutional ban on local or special laws. Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of the City of St. Louis v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. (Mo.), 612 S.W.2d 772.
MO Rev Stat § 392.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.090 - Mode of construction may be directed, by whom.

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 posts, piers or abutments shall be located, the kind of posts that shall be used, the height at which the wires shall be run; and such company shall be governed by the regulations thus prescribed; and after the erection of said telephone or telegraph lines, the said mayor and aldermen, or board of common council, and the trustees of any incorporated town, shall have power to direct any alteration in the location or erection of said posts, piers or abutments, and also in the height at which the wires shall run, having first given such company or its agents opportunity to be heard in regard to such alteration. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5335)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4930; 1919 § 10141; 1909 § 3335
MO Rev Stat § 392.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.100 - May enter upon lands, when.

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 the purpose of making preliminary surveys and examinations with a view to the erection of any telephone or telegraph lines, and, from time to time, to appropriate so much of said lands as may be necessary to erect such poles, piers, abutments, wires and other necessary fixtures for a telephone or magnetic telegraph, and to make such changes of location of any part of said lines as may, from time to time, be deemed necessary, and shall have a right of access to construct said line, and when erected, from time to time, as may be required, to repair the same; and may proceed to obtain the right-of-way, and to condemn said lands in the manner provided by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5327)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4922; 1919 § 10133; 1909 § 3327  CROSS REFERENCE:  Condemnation proceedings, Chap. 523
MO Rev Stat § 392.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.110 - No contract for exclusive use of land.

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 sections 392.010 to 392.170. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5328)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4923; 1919 § 10134; 1909 § 3328
MO Rev Stat § 392.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.120 - Power to own and maintain lines.

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 to the line or lines of such company other telephone or telegraph lines, by lease or purchase, and may join with any other corporation or association in constructing, leasing, owning, using or maintaining their line or lines, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the directors or managers of the respective corporations, and may own and hold any interest in such line or lines, or become lessees thereof, on such terms as the respective corporations may agree. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5329)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4924; 1919 § 10135; 1909 § 3329
MO Rev Stat § 392.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.130 - Companies to provide facilities to meet public needs — penalty for failure to deliver messages.

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 dispatch of the business of the public, to receive dispatches from and for other telephone or telegraph lines and from or for any individual, and on payment or tender of their usual charges for transmitting and delivering dispatches as established by the rules and regulations of such telephone or telegraph lines, to transmit and deliver the same to designated address and to use due diligence to place said dispatch in the hands of the addressee, by the most direct means available, without material alterations, promptly, and with impartiality and good faith under a penalty of three hundred dollars for every neglect or refusal so to transmit and deliver, to be recovered with costs of suit by civil action by the person or persons or company sending or desiring to send such dispatch; two-thirds of the amount recovered to be retained by the plaintiff and one-third to be paid into the county school fund of the county in which the suit was instituted, and the burden of proof shall be upon the company to show that the wire was engaged as the reason for the delay in transmitting such dispatch. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5330)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4925; 1919 § 10136; 1909 § 3330
MO Rev Stat § 392.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.140 - Duties in forwarding dispatches over other lines.

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 shall tender to the first company the amount of the usual charges for the dispatch to the place of final delivery, it shall be the duty of the company to receive the same, and, without delaying the dispatch, to pay to the succeeding line the necessary charges for the remaining distance; and it shall be the duty of the succeeding line or lines to accept the same, and forward the dispatch in the same manner as if the person sending the same had applied to the agent or operator of such line or lines in person, and paid to him the usual charges; and for omitting so to do the company or companies owning or operating such line or lines shall severally be liable to the penalty prescribed in section 392.130. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5331)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4926; 1919 § 10137; 1909 § 3331
MO Rev Stat § 392.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.150 - Employees to notify sender when message cannot be transmitted immediately — penalty.

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 servant who may receive dispatches at that station, plainly to inform the applicant, and, if required by him, to write upon the dispatch that the line is not in working order, or that the dispatches already on hand for transmission will occupy the time so that the dispatch offered cannot be transmitted within the time required, or promptly, if the facts be so; and for omitting so to do, or for intentionally giving false information to the applicant in relation to the time within which the dispatch offered may be sent, such operator, agent, clerk or servant, and the company by which he is employed, shall incur a like penalty as in section 392.130. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5332)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4927; 1919 § 10138; 1909 § 3332
MO Rev Stat § 392.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.160 - Penalty for transmitting false communications.

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 in any article of merchandise, commerce or trade, or with intent that another may do so, or shall knowingly send or deliver any dispatch that is forged or not authorized by the person whose name purports to be signed thereto, shall, on conviction thereof in the court having criminal jurisdiction in the proper county, be liable to the same penalty as is provided in section 392.130. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5333)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4928; 1919 § 10139; 1909 § 3333
MO Rev Stat § 392.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.170 - Liability for negligence in transmitting and delivering messages — not to disclose contents — penalty.

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 state or territory, and doing business in this state, shall be liable for special damages occasioned by the failure or negligence of their operators or servants in receiving, copying, transmitting or delivering dispatches; and for the disclosure of any of the contents of any private dispatches to any person other than to him to whom it was addressed, or to his agent, they shall be liable to the sender of the dispatch, and to the person to whom it was addressed, in the sum of fifty dollars to each, recoverable by any action before a magistrate, and for all special damages in addition thereto. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5334)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4929; 1919 § 10140; 1909 § 3334  (1957) This section does not dispense with the element of proximate cause, but telephone company is liable for neglect or refusal to transmit notice of fire to fire department within reasonable time after it has notice thereof, and under pleadings question of proximate cause was jury question. Jennings v. Southwestern Bell Tel. Co. (Mo.), 307 S.W.2d 464.
MO Rev Stat § 392.175 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.175 - Operator services, live operator to be provided, when.

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 a caller to access a live operator at the beginning of a call by a means that is easily and readily understood.  3. The requirements of this section shall not apply to telephones located in any correctional or detention facility. ­­-------- (L. 1997 S.B. 333 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 392.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.180 - What definitions to apply.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996   392.180. What definitions to apply. — The provisions of section 386.020, defining words, phrases and terms, shall apply to and determine the meaning of all such words, phrases and terms as used in sections 392.190 to 392.530. ­­-------- (1949 H.B. 2104, A.L. 1996 S.B. 507)
MO Rev Stat § 392.185 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 392 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies|Section 392.185 - Purpose of chapter.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996   392.185. Purpose of chapter. — The provisions of this chapter shall be construed to:  (1) Promote universally available and widely affordable telecommunications services;  (2) Maintain and advance the efficiency and availability of telecommunications services;  (3) Promote diversity in the supply of telecommunications services and products throughout the state of Missouri;  (4) Ensure that customers pay only reasonable charges for telecommunications service;  (5) Permit flexible regulation of competitive telecommunications companies and competitive telecommunications services;  (6) Allow full and fair competition to function as a substitute for regulation when consistent with the protection of ratepayers and otherwise consistent with the public interest;  (7) Promote parity of urban and rural telecommunications services;  (8) Promote economic, educational, health care and cultural enhancements; and  (9) Protect consumer privacy. ­­-------- (L. 1996 S.B. 507)