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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 5. TELEPHONE SERVICE · Article 5. TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKETING ACT OF 1998

46-5-181. Definitions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. As used in this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Local exchange carrier” shall have the same meaning as the term “local exchange company.”#

  3. (2)

    “Local exchange company” shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 46-5-162.#

  4. (3)

    “Long distance service” includes interexchange inter-LATA telecommunications service and interexchange intra-LATA telecommunications service.#

  5. (4)

    “Telecommunications company” shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 46-5-162.#

  6. (5)

    “Telecommunications services” shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 46-5-162.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 46-5-181, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 919, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 46(54)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, rewrote this Code section, which read: “As used in this article, the terms ‘local exchange company,’ ‘telecommunications company,’ and ‘telecommunications services’ shall have the same meaning as provided in Code Section 46-5-162; the term ‘local exchange carrier’ shall have the same meaning as ‘local exchange company’; and the term ‘long distance service’ shall include interexchange inter-LATA telecommunications service and interexchange intra-LATA telecommunications service.”.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

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