Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.01
"Telephone company" defined.
As used in sections 4931.02 to 4931.05 of the Revised Code, "telephone company" has the same meaning as in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code.
Chapter 4931 | Companies - Telegraph; Telephone
Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 4931 · 8 active provisions
Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.02
Acquisition or construction of other lines.
(A) A telephone company may construct, own, use, and maintain telecommunications lines and facilities, whether described in its original articles of incorporation or not, and whether such lines or facilities are wholly within or partly beyond the limits of this state. It may join with another company or association in…
Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.03
Construction in unincorporated area of township.
(A) A telephone company may do either of the following in the unincorporated area of the township: (1) Construct telecommunications lines or facilities upon and along any of the public roads and highways and across any waters within that area by the erection of the necessary fixtures, including posts, piers, or abutmen…
Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.04
Right of entry.
A telephone company may enter upon any land held by an individual or a corporation, whether such land was acquired by purchase, appropriation, or by virtue of any provision in its charter, for the purpose of making preliminary examination and surveys, with a view to the location and construction of telecommunications l…
Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.05
Powers and restrictions.
Any company organized at any time to transact a telephone or communications business may construct, reconstruct, own, use, lease, operate, maintain, and improve communications systems for the transmission of voices, sounds, writings, signs, signals, pictures, visions, images, or other forms of intelligence, as public u…
Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.06
Privileged communications of person with communicative impairment.
(A) As used in this section and in sections 2317.02 and 2921.22 of the Revised Code: (1) "Communications assistant" means a person who transliterates conversation from text to voice and from voice to text between the end users of a telecommunications relay service provided pursuant to this section or Title II of the "C…
Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.10
Transmitting advertising by facsimile device.
(A) As used in this section: (1) "Advertisement" means a message or material intended to cause the sale of realty, goods, or services.(2) "Facsimile device" means a device that electronically or telephonically receives and copies onto paper reasonable reproductions or facsimiles of documents and photographs through con…
Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.99
Penalties.
(A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 4931.06 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor in the first degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4931.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense and a misdemeanor of the first degree on each subsequent offense.