'Telephone line' defined. The term 'telephone line' when used in this subtitle includes conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, crossarms, receivers, transmitters, instruments, machines, and appliances, and all devices, real estate, franchises, easements, apparatus, fixtures, property, appurtenances, and routes used, operated, controlled, or owned by any telephone corporation to facilitate the business of affording telephonic communication for hire, or which licenses, lets, or permits telephonic communication. (Mar. 4, 1913, 37 Stat. 976, ch. 150, § 8, par. 1.) Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 43-218. 1973 Ed., § 43-118. Section References This section is referenced in § 34-2602. Cross References Public utility environmental impact statement, 'action' defined, see § 34-2602.
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