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TN Code § 65-5-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 1 - Public Utilities|§ 65-5-106. Operator-Assisted Telephone Services — Carriers Whose Rates Exceed Maximum Approved Rates

  Any telephone carrier offering or providing operator-assisted services in Tennessee whose intrastate rates exceed the maximum rate approved by the Tennessee public utility commission or whose interstate rates exceed the maximum rates approved by the federal communications commission (FCC) shall before providing the service:  Identify by name the carrier providing the service;   State all costs for providing the service; and   Offer to switch the customer to any other carrier offering operator-assisted services and inform the customer that the switch will be made without charge.     As used in this section:  “Maximum rate approved by the federal communications commission (FCC)” means the highest legal rate charged for handling an identical call by a carrier which has been classified by the FCC as a dominant, interstate carrier or, if no carrier has been so classified, means the highest rate approved by the FCC as just and reasonable for an identical call;   “Maximum rate approved by the Tennessee public utility commission” means the highest legal rate charged for handling an identical call by a carrier whose rates have been fixed by the commission based on the carrier's cost of providing service; and   “Operator-assisted services” means all telephone calls in which the customer is assisted by either a human or mechanical operator and includes, but is not limited to, calls billed to credit cards or third parties and all collect or person-to-person calls.     The commission may exempt any carrier from some or all of the provisions of this section upon a finding that the requirements are no longer necessary to protect the public interest.   Any telephone carrier violating this section is guilty of violating the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977, compiled in title 47, chapter 18, part 1, and shall be punished accordingly.
TN Code § 65-5-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 1 - Public Utilities|§ 65-5-108. Classification of Services — Exempt Services — Price Floor — Maximum Rates for Non-Basic Services

  Services of incumbent local exchange telephone companies who apply for price regulation under § 65-5-109 are classified as follows:  “Basic local exchange telephone services” are telecommunications services which are comprised of an access line, dial tone, touch-tone and usage provided to the premises for the provision of two-way switched voice or data transmission over voice grade facilities of residential customers or business customers within a local calling area, Lifeline, Link-Up Tennessee, 911 Emergency Services and educational discounts existing on June 6, 1995, or other services required by state or federal statute. These services shall, at a minimum, be provided at the same level of quality as is being provided on June 6, 1995. Rates for these services shall include both recurring and nonrecurring charges.   “Non-basic services” are telecommunications services which are not defined as basic local exchange telephone services and are not exempted under subsection (b). Rates for these services shall include both recurring and nonrecurring charges.     The commission, after notice and opportunity for hearing, may find that the public interest and the policies set forth in this part are served by exempting a service or group of services from all or a portion of the requirements of this part. Upon making such a finding, the commission may exempt telecommunications service providers from such requirements as appropriate. The commission shall in any event exempt a telecommunications service for which existing and potential competition is an effective regulator of the price of those services.   Effective January 1, 1996, an incumbent local exchange telephone company shall adhere to a price floor for its competitive services subject to such determination as the commission shall make pursuant to § 65-5-107. The price floor shall equal the incumbent local exchange telephone company's tariffed rates for essential elements utilized by competing telecommunications service providers plus the total long-run incremental cost of the competitive elements of the service. When shown to be in the public interest, the commission shall exempt a service or group of services provided by an incumbent local exchange telephone company from the requirement of the price floor. The commission shall, as appropriate, also adopt other rules or issue orders to prohibit cross-subsidization, preferences to competitive services or affiliated entities, predatory pricing, price squeezing, price discrimination, tying arrangements or other anti-competitive practices.   The maximum rate for any new non-basic service first offered after June 6, 1995, shall not exceed the stand-alone cost of the service.
TN Code § 65-5-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 1 - Public Utilities|§ 65-5-110. Commission Jurisdiction

  In addition to any other jurisdiction conferred, the commission shall have the original jurisdiction to investigate, hear and enter appropriate orders to resolve all contested issues of fact or law arising as a result of the application of Acts 1995, ch. 408.   The consumer advocate shall retain all powers with respect to Acts 1995, ch. 408 as is provided in § 65-4-118, or any future legislation.   Nothing in Acts 1995, ch. 408 shall be construed as removing the powers of the former commission pursuant to § 65-5-102.   Nothing in Acts 1995, ch. 408 shall affect the authority and duty of the former commission to complete any investigation pending as of June 6, 1995.   Nothing in Acts 1995, ch. 408 shall be construed to affect the assessment for ad valorem taxation of property used to provide telecommunications services, and to that end it is declared that the fifty-five percent (55%) level of assessments shall remain applicable to property used in whole or in part to provide telecommunications services other than cellular telephone services, radio common carrier services, or long distance telephone services.
TN Code § 65-5-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 1 - Public Utilities|§ 65-5-111. Evaluation — Reports by Commission

 The general assembly shall evaluate the implementation of Acts 1995, ch. 408, every two (2) years for not less than the next six (6) years by requiring the submission of a report prepared by the commission consisting of the following information:   The compliance of market participants with Acts 1995, ch. 408;   The status of universal service in Tennessee;   The availability of service capabilities and service offerings, subdivided by facilities-based and non-facilities-based, for each telecommunications services provider;   The number of customers, access lines served, and revenues, subdivided by residential and business, for each telecommunications services provider;   The impact of federal telecommunications initiatives;   The degree of technological change in the marketplace;   The technical compatibility between providers;   The service performance of providers; and   Any other information the commission considers necessary for proper oversight and evaluation.
TN Code § 65-5-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 1 - Public Utilities|§ 65-5-112. Small and Minority-Owned Telecommunications Business Participation Plan

 Each telecommunications service provider shall file with the commission a small and minority-owned telecommunications business participation plan within sixty (60) days of June 6, 1995. Competing telecommunications service providers shall file such plan with the commission with their application for a certificate. Such plan shall contain such entity's plan for purchasing goods and services from small and minority telecommunications businesses and information on programs, if any, to provide technical assistance to such businesses. All providers shall update plans filed with the commission annually. For purposes of Acts 1995, ch. 408, “minority business” means a business which is solely owned, or at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the assets or outstanding stock of which is owned, by an individual who personally manages and controls the daily operations of such business, and who is impeded from normal entry into the economic mainstream because of race, religion, sex or national origin and such business has annual gross receipts of less than four million dollars ($4,000,000). For purposes of Acts 1995, ch. 408, “small business” means a business with annual gross receipts of less than four million dollars ($4,000,000).
TN Code § 65-5-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 1 - Public Utilities|§ 65-5-113. Assistance Program for Small and Minority-Owned Businesses

  The department of the treasury shall develop by rule an assistance program for small and minority-owned businesses, as defined in § 65-5-112, which may include loans and loan guarantees, technical assistance and services, and consulting and educational services to be funded solely from the fund established in subsection (b). The department shall administer the small and minority-owned business assistance program. It is the legislative intent that such program be designed with consideration of fair distribution of program assistance among the geographic areas of the state, the grand divisions, and small and minority-owned businesses. It is the legislative intent that the department use the assistance provided by this program to support the department's outreach to new, expanding, and existing businesses in Tennessee that do not have reasonable access to capital markets and traditional commercial lending facilities.   There is established a general fund reserve to be allocated in accordance with the small and minority-owned business assistance program by this section which shall be known as the small and minority-owned business assistance program fund. Moneys from the fund may be expended in accordance with such program. Any moneys deposited in the fund shall remain in the reserve until expended for purposes consistent with such program and shall not revert to the general fund on any June 30. Any interest earned by deposits in the reserve shall not revert to the general fund on any June 30 but shall remain available for expenditure in subsequent fiscal years.   It is within the state treasurer's discretion to accept new applications to participate in the small and minority-owned business assistance program after July 1, 2013. After July 1, 2013, the program shall administer all loans that are outstanding as of July 1, 2013, until the loans are matured or written-off. After July 1, 2013, and notwithstanding subsection (b), a portion of the small and minority-owned business program funds shall be transferred to the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund program to be utilized in an incentive plan or plans authorized in § 49-7-805(4), reserving such amounts that the state treasurer deems necessary for the administration of the small and minority-owned business program, as well as the administration and marketing of the incentive plan or plans. At least annually, the state treasurer shall evaluate the loan payments received by the small and minority-owned business assistance program and shall have the authority to transfer the funds from loan payments to the college savings trust fund program while reserving amounts for continued administration of the small and minority-owned business assistance program.
TN Code § 65-5-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 2 - Broadband Business Certainty Act of 2006|§ 65-5-201. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Broadband Business Certainty Act of 2006.”
TN Code § 65-5-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 2 - Broadband Business Certainty Act of 2006|§ 65-5-202. Part Definitions — Treatment of Telecommunications Services to Avoid Federal Law Prohibited — Jurisdiction of Regulatory Commission Maintained — Regulation of Cable Television Not Affected

   As used in this part, “broadband services” means any service that consists of or includes a high-speed access capability to transmit at a rate that is not less than two hundred kilobits per second (200 Kbps), either in the upstream or downstream direction and either:  Is used to provide access to the Internet; or   Provides computer processing, information storage, information content or protocol conversion, including any service applications or information service provided over the high-speed access service.     “Broadband services” does not include intrastate service that was tariffed with the Tennessee public utility commission and in effect as of May 15, 2006; furthermore, the intrastate service shall not be reclassified, bundled, detariffed, declared obsolete or otherwise recharacterized to avoid the imposition of inspection fees by the Tennessee public utility commission.     Nothing in this part shall permit any carrier to treat services that constitute telecommunications services under federal law as nontelecommunications services for any purpose under state law.   Nothing in this part shall alter or affect the jurisdiction of the Tennessee public utility commission to arbitrate or hear complaints related to anticompetitive pricing of regulated services or interconnection agreements between carriers pursuant to §§ 251 and 252 of the federal Telecommunications Act (47 U.S.C. §§ 251 and 252).   Nothing in this part shall alter or affect any jurisdiction or authority of the Tennessee public utility commission to act in accordance with federal laws or regulations of the federal communications commission, including, but not limited to, jurisdiction granted to set rates, terms, and conditions for access to unbundled network elements and to arbitrate and enforce interconnection agreements.   Nothing in this part shall alter or affect in any manner the regulation of cable television as established elsewhere in state law.
TN Code § 65-5-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 2 - Broadband Business Certainty Act of 2006|§ 65-5-203. Federal Preemption

 In order to ensure that this state provides an attractive environment for investment in broadband technology by establishing certainty regarding the regulatory treatment of that technology, consistent with the decisions of the federal communications commission to preempt certain state actions that are not in accordance with the policies developed by the federal communications commission, the Tennessee public utility commission shall not exercise jurisdiction of any type over or relating to broadband services, regardless of the entity providing the service, except as provided in § 65-5-202(a).
TN Code § 65-5-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 3 - Uniform Access, Competition, and Consumer Fairness Act of 2011|§ 65-5-301. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Uniform Access, Competition, and Consumer Fairness Act of 2011.”
TN Code § 65-6-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-101. Acquisition or Construction of Railroads — Acquisition and Disposition of Stocks or Bonds

 All railroad companies of this state, and any other state or states, are empowered to build, lease or let, acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise, and operate, hold, or dispose of any railroad or railroads in any state or states, or any parts or portions of any such railroad or railroads, and the distribution thereof, as may be determined by their stockholders, and to acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold or dispose of any bonds or shares of the capital stock of any railroad company or companies in any state or states, and to endorse and guarantee the bonds of any railroad company or companies in any state or states, whose original charter of incorporation was granted by the state; provided, that the same should be approved by a vote of the holders of a majority of all of the outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon or upon receiving two thirds (2/3) of the votes which members present or represented at such meeting are entitled to cast, at a regular or called meeting of the stockholders of the company; and provided further, that ten (10) days' notice be given in a Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville daily newspaper, of the time, place, and purpose of the meeting.
TN Code § 65-6-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-102. Issuance of Bonds and Stock

 Railroad companies existing under the laws of this state, or of this state and any other state or states, are empowered to issue bonds, and secure the payment thereof by mortgage upon their franchises and property in any state or states, or upon any part of such franchises and property, or to issue income or debenture bonds, and such guaranteed, preferred, and common stock as may be determined upon by the stockholders; provided, the same be approved by the votes of the holders of three-fourths (¾) in amount of the entire stock of the company, at a regular or called meeting of the stockholders of the company, and that ten (10) days' notice be given in a Memphis, Knoxville, and Nashville daily newspaper, of the time, place, and purpose of the meeting.
TN Code § 65-6-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-103. Subscription for or Purchase of Stocks and Bonds of Other Companies — Contracts for Construction or Lease

 It is lawful for any railroad company created by and existing under the laws of this state, and for any lessees of a railroad of such company, from time to time, to subscribe for or purchase the stock and bonds, or either, of any other railroad company or companies chartered by or of which the road or roads are authorized to extend into this state, when their roads shall be directly, or by means of intervening railroads, connected with each other; and to make contract with such company or companies for the construction, maintenance, repairs, or equipments, as well as lease of such other railroad or railroads, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the companies owning the same, or by the companies and such lessees.
TN Code § 65-6-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-104. Limitation of Time Removed From Original Franchise

 Any railroad corporation or other body heretofore granted the right or power to build and maintain a railroad in this state, for a limited number of years, and which now owns a railroad in this state, built and maintained pursuant to such grant or power, has all the rights and privileges as are conferred by any general statutes of this state upon railroad corporations, and may exercise the same without regard to and despite any limitations of years contained in any such original franchise or grant.
TN Code § 65-6-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-105. Adoption of Electricity for Motive Power

 Any company authorized to operate a railroad by steam is empowered to adopt electricity as its motive power, whether such railroad be wholly or only partly in the state.
TN Code § 65-6-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-106. Entry Upon Private Lands for Certain Purposes

 The company, by its officers and agents, may enter upon the lands of private persons for the purpose of making surveys, estimates, and location of route.
TN Code § 65-6-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-107. Preference in Location of Line

 No railroad company shall have the right, by surveying or locating its line of railroad, to defer building its line of railroad to the exclusion of other companies that may sooner and more certainly build upon such line of route, but the company which, in good faith, first actually constructs its road over such route, shall have preference in the location of the route.
TN Code § 65-6-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-108. Location of First of Two Lines

 If, in determining any controversy over routes, it shall appear to the court that the second company, in good faith, intends to and probably will construct its road, the first line constructed shall be located, if practicable, so as not to make it unreasonably expensive to construct the other one.
TN Code § 65-6-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-109. Right-of-Way Authorized

 The corporation shall have the right, in pursuance of the general law authorizing the condemnation of private property for works of internal improvement, to appropriate as an easement a right-of-way, not exceeding two hundred feet (200'), over the land of any person through which the line of the track may be located.
TN Code § 65-6-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 6 - Railroads — Powers — Construction and Maintenance|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-6-110. Monopolizing Right-of-Way Prohibited — Condemnation as in Other Cases

 No railroad company, whose railroad may be built in this state, has the right to hold, to the exclusion of other railroads to be built, by purchase or condemnation for its right-of-way, a wider strip of land than shall be necessary for its reasonable use in the transaction of its business; and any land owned, or right-of-way held, or acquired, by any such railroad company, which a jury of inquiry in condemnation proceedings shall find necessary for such reasonable use and business of the company, may be condemned for the use of other railroads thereafter to be built, in like manner as other private property.