It shall be the duty of the Alabama Public Service Commission to encourage the improvement and expansion of existing rural telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure availability of adequate rural telephone service to the widest practicable number of rural users of such service, and to such ends the commission shall confer and advise with, and keep its official records open to inspection by, any interested person.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.
Chapter 6 - Electric Cooperatives.
Article 2 - Rural Telephone Service.
Section 37-6-40 - Definitions.
Section 37-6-41 - Electric Cooperatives Empowered to Furnish Telephone Service.
Section 37-6-42 - Enumerated Powers.
Section 37-6-43 - Name of Cooperative Furnishing Service.
Section 37-6-45 - Cooperatives Authorized to Supply Electrical Energy or Telephone Service or Both.
Section 37-6-46 - Power to Furnish Telephone Service Exclusive.
Section 37-6-48 - Additional Compensation for Members of Commission.
Section 37-6-49 - Vesting of Certain Powers; Validation of Acts Relating to Organization.