PDFWAC 480-143-200

Certain telephone leases are exempt.

A telephone utility may lease its properties to another telephone utility without prior commission approval if:
(1) The properties are not essential to the lessor's provision of telephone service;
(2) The properties are used to transmit interexchange messages between subscribers of different utilities;
(3) The lease expedites economical interexchange telephone service; and
(4) A copy of the lease agreement is kept in the lessor's office.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 80.01.040 and 80.04.160. WSR 99-08-055 (Order R-461, Docket No. A-980084), § 480-143-200, filed 4/1/99, effective 5/2/99.]