{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-131","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-131","heading":"Certificate of convenience and necessity – Notice by new","body":"providers – Availability of emergency telephone services - Fines.\n\nA. No person, firm, association, corporation or cooperative\n\nshall provide telecommunications services, as defined by the rules\n\nof the Corporation Commission, to any end-user in this state without\n\nhaving first obtained from the Corporation Commission a Certificate\n\nof Convenience and Necessity. This section shall not be construed\n\nto require any incumbent exchange carrier to secure such a\n\ncertificate for any extension within or to any territory already\n\nserved by it or for any extension into a territory contiguous to a\n\nterritory already served by it on which it has heretofore filed with\n\nthe Commission an exchange area map showing the territory professed\n\nto be served by such incumbent exchange carrier.\n\nB. Prior to obtaining a Certificate of Convenience and\n\nNecessity, each provider of telecommunications services, as defined\n\nby the rules of the Commission, making application for such\n\nCertificate shall be required to demonstrate its financial,\n\nmanagerial, and technical ability to provide the requested\n\ntelecommunications services in this state. Before commencing to\n\nprovide local exchange telecommunications services in any service\n\narea, a new provider shall give notice by mail or personal service\n\nto each regional council, as defined in the Local and Regional\n\nCapital Improvement Planning Process Act, in whose district any\n\nportion of the provider's intended service area lies and provide\n\nactual notice by mail or personal service to all political\n\nsubdivisions with jurisdictional boundaries that include all or\n\nportions of the service area outlined in the application for the\n\nCertificate of Convenience and Necessity. The notice shall confirm\n\nthat the provider is a local exchange telephone company as defined\n\nin the Nine-One-One Emergency Number Act, and shall attest that the\n\nprovider shall make emergency telephone services available to its\n\ncustomers in accordance with the Nine-One-One Emergency Number Act.\n\nThe new provider shall also forward a copy of the notice to the\n\nCorporation Commission. The regional council shall, within fifteen\n\n(15) days of receipt of the notice, forward the notice by mail to\n\nthe chief executive officer of every governing body located in the\n\nregional council district that has responsibility for operation of\n\nan emergency telephone system serving any part of the provider's\n\nintended service area.\n\nC. Any corporation, firm, or person who fails to provide notice\n\nas required pursuant to the provisions of subsection B of this\n\nsection may be fined by the Commission a sum of up to Five Hundred\n\nDollars ($500.00) as the Commission may deem proper after notice and\n\nopportunity for hearing. Each day's continuance of such violation,\n\nafter due service upon such corporation, firm, or person, of the\n\nrequirement shall be a separate offense.","path":["OK Code","Title 17"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os17.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"09a6dc416b60d784f9614dfe9f6e99aa185fef3f66102dcdd6a3cc46a6ade224","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-13","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-132"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}