Section 77-9-709 - Duty of telegraph and telephone companies to transmit public messages

Telegraph or telephone companies or associations shall be bound, on application of any officer of this state, or of the United States, in case of any war, insurrection, riot, or other civil commotion or resistance of public authority, or for the prevention and punishment of crime, or for the arrest of persons suspected or charged therewith, to give to the communications of such officers immediate dispatch at the price of ordinary communications of the same length.Codes, 1857, ch. 35, art. 49; 1871, § 2434; 1880, § 1039; 1892, § 857; 1906, § 928; Hemingway's 1917, § 4102; 1930, § 7064; 1942, § 7840.