KRS 278.530: Procedure to compel connection with telephone exchange or line.

(1) Whenever any telephone company desires to connect its exchange or lines with the

exchange or lines of another telephone company and the latter refuses to permit this

to be done upon reasonable terms, rates and conditions, the company desiring the

connection may proceed as provided in subsection (2) or as provided in subsection

(3) of this section.

(2) The company desiring the connection may file a written statement with the Public

Service Commission setting out the reasons why the connection is desired and the

points at which the connection should be made, and giving the name and address of

the owner or chief officer residing in this state of each company with which the

connection is desired. The executive director of the commission shall thereupon

cause a c opy of the written statement to be served upon the companies owning or

operating such lines or exchanges, by mailing a copy to the owner or chief officer

residing in this state, and shall fix a date, not earlier than ten (10) days from the date

of mailing the notice, for the hearing of the application. Upon the day so fixed for

the hearing, the companies may respond in writing to the application, and either side

may introduce such testimony as it desires and be heard by attorneys. After the

hearing is completed the commission shall make its finding and enter it in a book to

be kept for that purpose, and shall mail a copy thereof to each side; and if the

commission directs the connection to be made it shall indicate the points where the

connection is to be ma de, the number of wires to be connected, the terms and

conditions and the rates to be charged, and the division of the rates charged between

the companies handling the messages. The cost of making the connection shall be

borne equally by the parties. If an y company refuses to make a connection for a

period of thirty (30) days after the finding of the commission directing the

connection to be made, the company desiring the connection may make the

connection and may recover one -half (1/2) of the cost thereof from the company so

refusing.

(3) In lieu of the procedure provided in subsection (2) of this section, the company

desiring the connection may compel the connection upon reasonable terms by suit in

equity in the Franklin Circuit Court or in the Circuit Cou rt of the county in which

the company making the demand resides or has its chief office in this state, and the

court shall, by mandatory injunction, compel the physical connection of the wires

and interchange of messages, and enforce the same by contempt p roceedings and in

the same manner that other mandatory injunctions are enforced.