Tennessee § 65-21-109 - Discrimination in messages prohibited.
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§ 65-21-109. Discrimination in messages prohibited.
Every telegraph or telephone company doing business in this state must, under a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each and every refusal so to do, transmit over its wires to localities on its lines, for any individual or corporation or other telegraph or telephone company, such messages, dispatches, or correspondence, as may be tendered to it by, or to be transmitted to, any individual or corporation, or other telegraph or telephone companies, at the price customarily asked and obtained for the transmission of similar messages, dispatches, or correspondence, without discrimination as to charges or promptness. The penalty herein prescribed shall be recoverable in any court through proper form of law, one half (½) of which shall go to the prosecutor and one half (½) to the state. Acts 1885, ch. 66, § 10; Shan., § 1841; Code 1932, § 3106; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 65-2116. Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 23 Tenn. Juris., Telecommunications, § 5.
Source: official Tennessee text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 65-21-109 ("Discrimination in messages prohibited.") is part of the Tennessee Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Tennessee. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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