Chap. 141.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
4052-a, authorizing the State Corporation Commission to require extension
of telephone facilities into rural areas in certain cases. [H 85)

Approved March 6, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section
numbered four thousand and fifty-two-a as follows:

Section 4052-a. If, from any rural territory not now being
served, application be made to the State Corporation Commission
by a group of ten or more persons, natural or artificial, to require
an extension of telephone service to such territory, the Commission
shall, if necessary to accomplish the purposes sought, fix a time
for hearing said application on such terms and conditions as the
Commission may prescribe and, if it be established to the satisfac-
tion of the Commission, that a proper guaranteed revenue will
accrue to any company which may be required to extend such
services to such territory, then the Commission is hereby author-
ized and empowered to require the telephone company located
nearest, or most advantageous to, such territory to construct such
extension to such point or points in such territory and to furnish
adequate telephone facilities and conveniences to such customer
or customers therein as in its judgment is right and proper.