Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 515 - RULES OF GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Chapter 515-6 - TELEPHONE UTILITIES
Subject 515-6-1 - TELEPHONE COMPANIES' CERTIFICATES
Rule 515-6-1-.01 - Definitions

(a) "Applicant"--Any person who requests the issuance of a certificate to construct, acquire, or operate any telephone line, plant or system, or extension thereof pursuant to the provisions of the Act approved February 17, 1950, Georgia Laws 1950, p. 311.

(b) "Certificate"--Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity issued by the Commission to telephone utilities as provided by said Act.

(c) "Commission"--Georgia Public Service Commission.

(d) "Exchange Area"--The corporate limits of the municipality or the local community area in which reasonably adequate local exchange telephone service is, or is proposed to be furnished, together with such rural areas contiguous thereto as are served, or as are proposed to be served with reasonably adequate local exchange service from the exchange in question.

(e) "Facilities"--All property, means and instrumentalities owned, operated, leased, licensed, used, furnished, or supplied for, by or in connection with the rendition of telephone service to the public.

(f) "Line"--One or more telephone circuits used in the transmission of voice communication between any two points including physical or phantom circuits, carrier, radiorelay or coaxial channels, and including aerial wire and aerial, underground, buried or submarine cable circuits, irrespective of whether such circuits are used for toll or exchange telephone service.

(g) "Person"--Any corporation, company, person, partnership, firm, association or any cooperative nonprofit membership corporation or limited dividend or mutual association now or hereafter created.

(h) "Plant"--Property which is necessary to provide service to the public as set forth in the various fixed capital accounts of the Uniform System of Accounts for telephone companies.

(i) "Service"--The act or means of supplying voice communication to the public by telephone.

(j) "System"--The coordinated facilities, including central office equipment, outside plant and subscriber instrumentalities, used to provide telephone service to the public.

(k) "Toll Line"--For the purpose of distinguishing between certificates for exchange areas and for toll lines, a toll line is a "line" as herein defined used in the transmission of voice communication between any two or more exchanges, as distinguished from interoffice trunks between individual central offices within a single exchange area.

(l) "Utility"--Any person as herein defined engaged in supplying telephone service to the public in Georgia.