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1934 January - McHenry Johnsburg Pistakee Telephone Directory, Page ii

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REGULATIONS of service must be made on the'felephone standard application forn-s, Requests from Applications.-Applications {or original establishment Company's subscribers made for additional service, equipment, etc., may be orally or in rvritine, and upcn approval, or installation o{ the service, become a part ol the original appiication. An applicant for service nust pay all previous indebtedness to the Company for telephone service before service rviil be furnished. Establishment of Credit.-In orrler to insure the payment of all charges due for its service, the Telephone Company may require any subscriber to establish and maintain his credit in one of the lollowing rvays: (1) By furnishing references acceptab)e to the Telephone Company. the minimum rate for the telephone faciiities and class of service affected by the interruption, for such time as the interruption continues. No other liability shall attach to the Company in consideration of such service ilrterruption. right in the telephone number or any right to continuance of service through any particular central offrce. The Telephone Company may change the telephone Telephone Numbers.-The subscriber has no property (2) 81' providing a suitable guarantee in rvriting, il form prescribeil. by the Telephone Company. (3) By tieans of a cash deposit. to increase the amount oi the deposit at anv time if, in its opinion, the cherges billed against the sulrscriber The Telephone Company may require the subscriber number or the central oflice designation, or both, of a subscriber whenever it deems it desirable in the conduct of its business so to do. Telephone Directories.-Directories regularly furnished to subscribers are the property of the Telephone Company, are loaned to subscribers only as an aid to the use oI the telephone service, and are to be returned are lound to wJrranl ruch an increa.e. Interest at the rate of not less than 5/e per annum shall be paid l;y the Company on all deposits made lor the purpose of establishing credit. Service may be discontiuued for failure to establish credit, as authorized above, rrithin five days a{ter the Company has serr.ecl or mailed notice requiring the subscriber so to cio. Where ser.rice has been discontinued for failure to establish credit as authorized by these Regulations, the reqular restoral charge wili be made and coliecteil b1' the Compaly. to the Telephone Company upon request or u,hen new directories are issued. The Telephone Company shall have the right to make a charge for directories issued in replacement of directories lost, destroyed, defaced, or mutilated while in possession of subscriber. No liability arising from errors or omissions in the making up or printing of its directories shall attach to the company except in the case cf charge listings, in connection u'ith which its liability shall be limited to a refund at the monthly rate for each listing for the time an error or omission continues after reasonable notice in writing to the Company. Use of Service.-Subscriber telephone seryice is furnished oniy lor use by the subscriber, his family, employees, or business associates, or persons residing in the subscriber's household, except as the use oi the scni,'e may be extcndpd to joilt u.ers or 1o persons temporarilv subleasing a subscriber's resiclential premises. The Telephone Company has the right to refuse to install subscriber service or to permit such service to remain on premises of a public or semi-public character when the instrument is so Iocated that the public in general or patrons of the subscriber may make use o.t the service. 0wnership and Use 0f the Equipment.-Equipment, instrurnents and lines on subscriber's prernises, furni:hed by the Telephone Companv, shall be and remain the properttr of the Telephone Company, rvhose agents and emplol'ees hale the right to enter said prenises at any rea:rnabie hcur for the purpose of instaiiinq, inspectinq, or repairing the instnurrents and lines or for the purpose of urahing collections {rom coin boxes ancl, upon termination of the service, for the purpose of removing such instruments ancl lines. Such equipment is not to be used for performinq any part of the worh of transmitting, delivering or collecting any ielephone message where any to be paid any party other than the Telephone Compan1,, without the written consent of the Teleplrone Company. Subscribers must not use or permit to be used any electrical or mechanical apparatus or device in connection_ lvith the equipment or facilities furnished by the Telephone Company without the written consent of the Telephone Company, or permit the attachment o{ any advertising devices, except upon the approval of the Telephone Company. In case any instrument, apparatus, or device of any kind other than that furnished or approved by the Telephone Company is attached to or connected with any part of the Tele- toll or consideration has been or is Payment f0r Service.-The subscriber is required to pay, in accordance with the Telephore Conpany's estab. lishecl tariffs, collection and billine practices, all charges for exchange service and equipment, and for all tcll messages or service rendered to his station, including reYersed and accepted by any party at his station. All bills are due when rendered and are payable at the Ielephone Company's business offices. _ _In lhg event that any sum due (except as provided below) is not paid on or before the 14th diy after all toll messages on uhich the charges have been the issuance of the bill, a u.ritten notice may be sent to the subscriber, calling attention to the Jact that the aurount is due; and, if payment is not made within phone Company's property, the Telephone Company seven days thereafter, the Company may deny service rvithout further notice, When the service of a subscriber has been denied in shall have the right to remove such instruments, apparatus, or devices or to suspend the service so long as such instruments, apparatus, or devices are so atl tached or connected, or to terminate the service. :nterruptions to Service.-When requested by the subscriber, if service is interrupted for more than 24 hours, and for causes other than the negligence or wiilful act of the subscriber, an allowance shall be made, at accordance with the preceding paragraphs, but the service has not been terminated or the order to remove the service has not been completed, iI such service is restored, a Restoral of Service Charge of $1.00 will be made. In case service has been denied, in addition to the restoral of service charge, the subscriber will be required to pay all service charges up to the time of restoral of service. Subsequent to the completion of an order to terminate the service. it will be reestablished only upon the basis of a new sen-ice applicalion. The Regulaticns Herein Stated are Excerpts from the official Regulations of this Company as on File August 15, 1933, with the Illinois Commerce Commission. McHenry

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