Any foreign nonprofit or cooperative corporation furnishing or authorized to furnish telephone service and owning or operating telephone lines or facilities in an adjacent state may construct or acquire extensions of such lines in this state and operate such extensions without complying with any statute of this state pertaining to the qualifications of foreign corporations for the doing of business in this state. Any such corporation shall, before constructing or operating such extensions, by an instrument executed and acknowledged on its behalf by its president or vice president, under its seal attested by its secretary, and filed with the Secretary of State, designate the Secretary of State its agent to accept service of process on its behalf. Thereafter, with respect to its operations in this state, such corporation shall have only the rights, powers, privileges and immunities of, and shall be subject to all of the laws of this state relating to the jurisdiction and supervision of the Public Service Commission in the same manner and to the same extent as, a cooperative organized under KRS § 279.310 to KRS § 279.600. In the event any process shall be served upon the Secretary of State, he shall forthwith forward the same by certified mail, return receipt requested to such corporation at the address thereof specified in the aforesaid instrument.
Effective: July 15, 1980

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 279.570

  • Acquire: means to construct, purchase, obtain by lease, devise, gift, or by eminent domain, or to obtain by any other lawful means. See Kentucky Statutes 279.010
  • Certified mail: means any method of governmental, commercial, or electronic delivery that allows a document or package to have proof of:
    (a) Sending the document or package. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Cooperative: means any corporation organized under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 279.310
  • Corporation: means a profit or nonprofit corporation formed under the laws of any state or a foreign country. See Kentucky Statutes 279.010
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • telephone service: shall include in its meaning communications services of all kinds allowed to any other telephone utility, authorized by regulatory agency and with some unregulated, that being the transmission of voice, data, sounds, signals, pictures, writing, or signs of all kinds, by use of wire, radio, light, electromagnetic impulse, broadband (wideband) spectrum, or any other transmission mode and facility used in rendition of such services. See Kentucky Statutes 279.310

History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 114, sec. 66, effective July 15, 1980. — Amended
1974 Ky. Acts ch. 315, sec. 44. — Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 147, sec. 27, effective
March 25, 1950.

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