Okla. Admin. Code § 165:5-7-53

Current through Vol. 42, No. 7, December 16, 2024

Section 165:5-7-53 - Certificate of convenience and necessity and service territory expansions for providing telecommunications services

(a) Pursuant to 17 O.S. §§131, et seq., notice that an application has been filed for a certificate of convenience and necessity to construct, build, equip or operate public telephone toll or long distance line or lines or any public telephone exchange or exchanges in any territory shall be published once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in each territory affected.

(b) No certificate shall issue until the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of the first publication of notice. If no protest is filed, the Commission may issue the certificate without a hearing. If a written objection to the application is filed within the thirty day period, the application shall be set for hearing and notice thereof shall be given by the Applicant filing notice of the hearing in the Office of the Commission's Court Clerk and providing said notice to all parties of record and the Attorney General, at least 10 days prior to the hearing.

(c) This Section shall not be construed to require any telephone company to secure such a certificate for any extension within or to any territory already served by it or for any extension into a territory contiguous to a territory already served by it on which it has heretofore filed with the Commission an exchange map showing the territory professed to be served by such telephone company.

Okla. Admin. Code § 165:5-7-53

Amended at 14 Ok Reg 2474, eff 7-1-97

Amended by Oklahoma Register, Volume 32, Issue 23, August 17, 2015, eff. 8/27/2015

Amended by Oklahoma Register, Volume 38, Issue 24, September 1, 2021, eff. 10/1/2021