(1) The Public Utility Commission shall grant an application filed under ORS § 759.590 if the commission finds that:

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 759.595

  • Local exchange telecommunications service: means telecommunications service provided within the boundaries of exchange maps filed with and approved by the commission. See Oregon Statutes 759.005
  • Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • Telecommunications: means the transmission of information chosen by a person, between or among points specified by the person, without change in the form or content of the information sent or received. See Oregon Statutes 759.005
  • Telecommunications service: means telecommunications that are offered for a fee to the public, or to such class of users as to be effectively available to the public, without regard to the facilities used to provide the telecommunications. See Oregon Statutes 759.005

(a) The telecommunications utility in whose territory the unserved person is located has declined to serve without line extension charges;

(b) Another telecommunications utility has agreed to provide local exchange telecommunications service to the unserved person with no line extension charge or with line extension charges lower than those offered by the telecommunications utility in whose territory the unserved person is located; and

(c) Approval of the application is not contrary to the public interest.

(2) Any order of the commission issued under subsection (1) of this section shall not have the effect of changing any territory allocated under ORS § 758.400 to 758.475 that is being provided with local exchange telecommunications service. [1989 c.574 § 4; 1991 c.307 § 3]

 

[1989 c.574 § 5; repealed by 1991 c.307 § 4]

 

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