Illinois Compiled Statutes 220 ILCS 55 — Telegraph Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Telegraph Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

That every company heretofore incorporated under any general or special law, or which may be incorporated under any general law of this state for the construction or operation of any telegraph line through or in this state, shall possess the powers and privileges and be subject to the duties, restrictions and liabiliti…

Every such company may enter upon any lands for the purpose of making surveys and examinations with a view to the erection of any telegraph line, and take and damage private property for the erection and maintenance of such lines, and may, subject to the provisions contained in this act, construct lines of telegraph al…

When it shall be necessary, for the construction, alteration or repair of any line of telegraph, to take or damage any property, the same may be done and the compensation therefor ascertained and made in the manner which may be at that time provided by law for the exercise of the right of eminent domain. (Source: R.S.…

Eminent domain

Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

No such company shall have the right to erect any poles, posts, piers, abutments, wires or other fixtures of their lines along or upon any public ground outside the corporate limits of a city, town or village, without the consent of the county board of the county in which such public ground is situated, nor upon any pu…

If any company or person owning or operating any telegraph line in this state shall refuse to receive any dispatch from any other company or person owning or operating any telegraph line in this state, or shall refuse or willfully neglect to transmit the same in good faith, and without partiality, the company or person…

It shall be the duty of all persons employed in transmitting messages by telegraph to transmit them in the order in which they are received; and any person who shall fail so to transmit a message, or who shall suppress a message, or who shall make known the contents of a message to any person other than the one to whom…

Any telegraph company or any officer, agent or employee of a telegraph company which shall disclose or knowingly permit to be disclosed, or shall impart or knowingly permit to be imparted, the contents of any message entrusted to such company for transmission, to any person, firm or corporation other than the person, f…

Whoever shall transmit or cause to be transmitted by telegraph, from any place in this state to any other place in this state or elsewhere, any falsehood, knowing the same to be such, shall be guilty of a petty offense. (Source: P.A. 77-2613.)

Any person who, for the purpose of inciting or aiding rebellion, riot or insurrection in this state against the government or laws of this state or of the United States, or a hostile invasion of this state, shall transmit or cause to be transmitted by telegraph any communication whatever, shall be imprisoned in the pen…

Any telegraph operator or person employed in any telegraph office in this state, or any other person, who shall, knowing the design thereof, deliver or cause to be delivered any communication prohibited by the preceding section of this act, to any person other than the proper officers, agents or employees of this state…