- A. After August 28, 1969, extensions of telephone distribution lines on applicants' owned and leased properties, and in industrial parks, necessary to furnish permanent telephone service to new commercial and industrial buildings and to new multiple-occupancy buildings, shall be made underground.
- B. The application of these regulations is not mandatory for extensions of lines to provide telephone service to customers whose premises are so unesthetic that the construction of underground lines would serve no purpose. Customers of this nature might include gravel pits and other mining operations, junk yards, railroad yards, and steel mills.
Authority: Public Utilities Article, §§2-121 and 5-101, and Title 12, Subtitle 1, Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date: August 28, 1969 (Order No. 57831)
Chapter revised effective September 1, 1971 (Order No. 59432)
Regulation .02A amended effective October 31, 1988 (15:22 Md. R. 2559)
Regulations .02E, F, .06B, and .07B adopted effective October 1, 1973 (Order No. 60392)
Regulation .05C amended effective October 31, 1988 (15:22 Md. R. 2559)