New York Laws
Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations
98 - Power of Commission to Order Repairs or Changes.

§ 98. Power of commission to order repairs or changes. Whenever the
commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing had upon its own motion,
or upon a complaint, that repairs or improvements to or changes in any
telegraph line or any telephone line ought reasonably to be made, or
that any additions should reasonably be made thereto, in order to
promote the convenience of the public or employees, or in order to
secure adequate service or facilities for telegraphic or telephonic
communications, the commission shall make and serve an order directing
that such repairs, improvements, changes or additions be made within a
reasonable time and in a manner to be specified therein and every
telegraph corporation and telephone corporation is hereby required and
directed to make all repairs, improvements, changes and additions
required of it by any order of the commission served upon it.

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