Telephone Law: The Organization and Operation of Telephone Companies

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McGraw publishing Company, 1908 - 331 sider
 

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Residence of stockholders and directors principal office
10
Protection of minority stockholders taxes and forfeiture
11
CHAPTER II
12
Details to be set forth in charter
13
Who may be corporators
14
The corporate name
15
General route termini estimated length and cost
16
The capita stock and its shares
18
Term of existence
19
Executing and filing of articles
20
CHAPTER III
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When and how adopted
23
Requisites and validity
25
Arrangement and contents
26
Stock
27
Stockholders
28
Directors
30
Standing committees
31
Officers
32
Dividends and finance
33
Amendments
34
CHAPTER IV
35
Minute book
36
Stock book
39
Book of stock certificates
40
Stockholders ledger
42
Transfer book
43
Subscription book
44
CHAPTER V
45
Sources from which franchises are obtained
47
PARAGRAPH
48
Municipal franchises
54
Compelling grant of franchises
60
Duties and liabilities imposed in franchises
66
Revocation and forfeiture of franchises
72
Municipal regulation
79
CHAPTER VIII
89
PARAGRAPH
91
Telephone lines an additional burden
97
158
102
Definition
103
PARAGRAPH PAGE 107 Condemnation proceedings
108
Nature of title acquired
110
Over railroad rights of way
111
Commissioners and how appointed
112
Proceedings by special court
113
CHAPTER X
115
Sidewalks gutters bicycle paths etc
117
Municipal authority for improper location no defense
118
Poles must be strong stable and secure
119
Regulation by State
120
Delegation of power to municipalities
122
Powers of municipal board of supervisors
124
Power of Selectmen
125
CHAPTER XI
126
Conduction
127
Induction by electric light and power companies
137
Contact Duty to use guard wires
138
Other methods of avoiding contact
140
Guard wires may be required by ordinance
141
CHAPTER XII
142
Extent to which later company may build
143
Interlacing at crossings
146
Drop wires
147
Distance between wires
148
Legal remedies
149
CHAPTER XIII
151
Permission to build subways is necessary
152
The construction of subways a public use
153
Subway companies not cmomon carriers
155
Power of commissioners
156
Contracts for construction of subways
157
Occupation of subways
158
CHAPTER XIV
161
Damages for malicious injury
167
Methods
178
Bond issues
184
PARAGRAPH PAGE 192 Lawful discrimination between classes of subscribers
190
When public carrier becomes private furnishing mes sengers
191
Facilities need not be furnished to be used for unlawful purposes
192
Cannot discriminate against telegraph companies
193
Connection with other telephone companies
194
Connection with rival companies
195
Remedies for discrimination
197
Penalty statutes
199
CHAPTER XVII
201
Power to tax
203
Limitations on taxing power
204
Limitations by contract
205
Essentials of taxation
206
Different kinds of taxes
207
Is telephone property real or personal?
208
Privileges or business taxes
209
Taxing corporate property under modern systems
211
Franchise taxes
212
License fees
215
Rentals
217
Interstate commerce
218
CHAPTER XVIII
221
PARAGRAPH PAGE
222
Fellowservant doctrine
228
Joint liability
234
Employers liability insurance
241
ByLaws for Incorporated Company
247
Right of Way Contracts
253
Agreement for the Joint Use of Poles
262
Rural Line Contract
274
Supplemental Contract
283
Public Pay Station Contract
290
Immediate Report of Accident
297
Petition for Permission to Erect Telephone Lines in Town
307
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Side 47 - Congress assembled, that any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, under the laws of any State in this Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Side 20 - The certificate of incorporation may also contain any provision which the incorporators may choose to insert for the regulation of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and any provisions creating, defining, limiting and regulating the powers of the corporation, the directors and the stockholders, or any class of the stockholders; provided, such provisions are not contrary to the laws of this State.
Side 197 - One water company, or one telephone company, or one telegraph company, or one street railway company, or one railroad company while bound appropriately to serve the general public, cannot, unless under express statutory enactment, and by due process of law thereunder, be compelled to give its property to the uses and benefits of a rival except by some form of condemnation. The rival is not ordinarily to be included in the term 'general public.
Side 253 - ... have granted, bargained, sold, and conveyed, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, and convey...
Side 104 - ... that only can be considered such where the government is supplying its own needs, or is furnishing facilities for its citizens in regard to those matters of public necessity, convenience, or welfare, which, on account of their peculiar character, and the difficulty — perhaps impossibility — of making provision for them otherwise, it is alike proper, useful, and needful for the government to provide.
Side 254 - ... free and voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein set forth, Given under my hand and Notarial Seal this 13th day of May, 19....
Side 47 - Any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, under the laws of any State of the Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain and operate lines of telegraph * * * through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Side 42 - For value received hereby sell, assign and transfer unto ^ shares of the capital stock represented by the within certificate and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named company with full power of substitution in the premises.
Side 47 - Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, over and along any of the military or post roads of the United States which have been or may hereafter be declared such by act of Congress, and over, under, or across the navigable streams or waters of the United States...
Side 40 - THIS CERTIFIES THAT is the owner of Shares of the Capital Stock of HAMILTON AUTOMOBILE CO., FULL PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by Attorney, upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed.

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