No sale, lease or transfer of any franchises or properties within Mississippi, or any part thereof, of any domestic telephone or telegraph company, whether operated by a person, firm or corporation, shall be valid unless, upon a hearing after reasonable notice, the commission shall find that the person, firm or corporation to whom such sale, lease or transfer is proposed to be made is financially and otherwise capable of rendering telephone or telegraph service in a reasonably adequate manner.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 3 - Regulation of Public Utilities
Article 7 - Determination of Adequacy of Service by Telegraph and Telephone Companies
§ 77-3-401. Determination of adequacy of service initiated by petition of attorney general
§ 77-3-403. Notice to corporation to appear before commission
§ 77-3-405. Distinct findings of fact to be made by commission
§ 77-3-407. Issuance of order requiring changes in service
§ 77-3-409. Removal of proceedings to circuit court
§ 77-3-411. Forfeiture of charter for failure to make changes
§ 77-3-413. Certiorari to circuit court
§ 77-3-415. Appeal from judgment of circuit court
§ 77-3-417. Effect of receivership proceedings
§ 77-3-419. Liquidation of business
§ 77-3-425. Continuation of service in event of sale of business