{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-117-31","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 117-31","heading":"Power of Rural Electrification Authority to prosecute requested investigations.","body":"In investigating the application filed with the Rural Electrification Authority under the provisions of G.S. 117-30 of this Article, the Rural Electrification Authority shall have the authority to employ such personnel as shall be necessary to conduct surveys; to contact the telephone companies serving the general area for the purpose of arranging for extension of telephone service by such companies to such community or communities; to make estimates of the cost of the extension of telephone service to such community or communities; to call upon the Utilities Commission of the State to fix such rates as will be applicable to such service; to secure for such community or communities any assistance which may be available from the federal government by gift or loan or in any other manner; to investigate all applications for the creation of telephone membership corporations and determine and pass upon the question of granting authority to form such corporation; to provide forms for making such applications, and to do all things necessary to a proper determination of the question of the establishment of such telephone membership corporations in keeping with the provisions of this Article; to act as agent for any such telephone membership corporation in securing loans or grants from any agency of the United States government; to prescribe rules and regulations and the necessary blanks for such membership corporations in making applications for grants or loans from any agency of the United States government; to do all other acts and things which may be necessary to aid the rural communities in North Carolina in securing telephone service. (1945, c. 853, s. 3.)","path":["Chapter 117. Electrification.","Article 4. Telephone Service and Telephone Membership Corporations."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_117/GS_117-31.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:18:27Z","sha256":"683ddf613c590e3020846cfe081e286bc58c60d29cfafad67fbe0bd1dd5b449f","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-117-30","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-117-32"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}