When application is made to serve new rural areas or to serve a new exchange area and rural areas, the area defined by map annexed to the application for a certificate shall encompass the proposed lines and a distance of one mile in any direction therefrom unless, in the discretion of the Commission, the defined area should be otherwise delineated. However, the requested area shall not encroach upon an area already certificated to another person.
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 515-6-1-.19
Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 125; 1907, pp. 72, 75; 1922, pp. 143, 144; 1950, p. 311; 1964, p. 338; 1965, p. 283; 1975, Sec. 2, p. 406.