KRS 278.520: Transmission of long distance messages from other telephone lines.

Telephone companies operating exchanges in different cities shall receive and transmit

each other's messages without unreasonable delay or discrimination. The telephone

exchange receiving any message from the exchange in which the message originated, and

each other connecting exchange through which the message must be routed in order to

reach its destination, shall switch the message through its exchange without unreasonable

delay or discrimination and with the same promptness with which messages originatin g

and ending on its own lines are handled, by causing the talking circuit to be connected

over the toll line leading through or from the receiving exchange through any other

connecting exchanges to the point of destination. It is the intention of this sect ion to

compel the connecting up and usage of toll wires through the various intervening

exchanges between the exchange in which the messages originate and the point of

destination, so that the party requesting service may be able to hold a conversation wit h

the party called for at the point of destination.