KRS 279.570: Foreign corporations.

Any foreign nonprofit or cooperative corporation furnishing or authorized to furnish

telephone service and owning or operating telephone lines or facilities in an adjacent state

may construct or acquire extensions of such lines in this state and operate such extensions

without complying with any statute of this state pertaining to the qualifications of foreign

corporations for the doing of business in this state. Any such corporation shall, before

constructing or operating such extensions, by an instrument executed and acknowledged

on its behalf by its president or vice president, under its seal attested by its secretary, and

filed with the Secretary of State, designate the Secretary of State its agent to accept

service of process on its behalf. Thereafter, with respect to its operations in this state,

such corporation shall have only the rights, powers, privileges and immunities of, and

shall be subject to all of the laws of this state relating to the jurisdiction and supervision

of the Public Service Commis sion in the same manner and to the same extent as, a

cooperative organized under KRS 279.310 to 279.600. In the event any process shall be

served upon the Secretary of State, he shall forthwith forward the same by certified mail,

return receipt requested t o such corporation at the address thereof specified in the

aforesaid instrument.