477.5 Equal facilities — delay.
If the proprietor of any telegraph or telephone line within the state, or the person having the control and management thereof, refuses to furnish equal facilities to the public and to all connecting lines for the transmission of communications in accordance with the nature of the business which it undertakes to carry on, or to transmit the same with fidelity and without unreasonable delay, the law in relation to limited partnerships, corporations, and to the taking of private property for works of internal improvement, shall no longer apply to them, and property taken for the use thereof without the consent of the owner may be recovered by the owner.
[C51, §783; R60, §1351; C73, §1327; C97, §2161; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8304; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, §488.5; C77, 79, 81, §477.5]
2008 Acts, ch 1032, §63
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 477 - TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONES — CABLE SYSTEMS
Section 477.2 - Removal of lines and cable systems.
Section 477.3 - Construction — installation — damages.
Section 477.5 - Equal facilities — delay.
Section 477.6 - Delay — willful error — revealing contents.
Section 477.7 - Mistakes and delays.
Section 477.8 - Negligence presumed.
Section 477.9 - Presentation of claim.
Section 477.9A - Deregulated services.
Section 477.11 - Facilities to local exchange.
Section 477.12 - Transmission of messages.