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1934 December - McHenry, Johnsburg, Pistakee Telephone Directory, Page ii

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REGULATIONS of service must be made on the Telephone Company's standard application forms. Requests lrom subscribers for additional service, equipment, etc., may be made orally or in miting, and upon approval, or installation of the service, become a part of the original application. An applicant for service must pay all previous indebtedness to the Company for telephone service before service mend Applications.-Applications for original establishment interruption. the minimum rate for the telephone facilities and class of service afrected by the interruption, for such time as the interruption continues. No other liability shall attach to the Company in consideration of such -service Telephone Numbers.-The subscriber has no property will be furnished. Establishment of Company may require any subscriber to establish and maintain his credit in one of the following ways: Credit.-In order to insure the payof all charges due for its service, the Telephone references acceptable right in the telephone number or any right to ionlinuance of service thrmeh any particular central office. The Telephone Company may change the telephone number or the central office designation, or boih, of a subscriber whenever it deems conduct of its business so to do, it desirable in the (1) By furnishing to the Tele- phone Company, (2) By providing a suitable guarantee in writing, in form prescribed by the Telephone Company. (3) By means of a cash deposit. The Telephone Company may require the subscriber to increase the amount of the deposit at any time if, in its opinion, the charges billed against the subscriber are found to warrant such an increase. Interest at the rate of not less lhan \Vo per annum shall be paid by the Company on all deposits made Ior the purpose oI establishing credit. Service may be discontinued for failure to establish credit, as authorized above, within five days after the Company has served or mailed notice requiring the subscriber so to do. Where service has been discontinued for failure to establish credit as authorized by these Regulations, the regular restoral charge will be made and collected by the Company. 0wnership and Use of the Equipment.-Equipment, instruments and lines on subscriber's premises, furnished by the Telephone Company, shall be and remain the property of the Telephone Company, whose agents and employees have the right to enter said premises at any reasonable hour for the purpose ol installing, inspecting, or repairing the instruments and lines or for the purpose of making collections from coin boxes and, upon termination oI the service, for the purpose of re- ployees, or business associates, or persons residing in the subscriber's household, except as the use of the service may be extended to joint users or to persons temporarily subleasing a subscriber's residential 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 char. acter when the instrument is so located that the public in general or patrons of the subscriber may make use 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 of charge listings, in connection with 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 *rvice is furnished only for use by the subscriber, his family, em- nished to subscribers are the property of the Telephone Company, are loaned to subscribers only as an aid to the use of the telephone service, and are to be returned to the Telephone Company upon request or when 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, Telephone Directories.-Directories regularly fur- of the service, moving such instruments and lines. Such equipment is not to be used for performing any part of the work of transmitting, delivering or collecting any telephone message where any to be paid any party other than the Telephone Company, without the written consent of the Telephone Company. Subscribers must not use or permit to be used any electrical or mechanical apparatus or device in connection with the equipment or facilities furnished by the Telephene Company without the written consent of the Telephone Company, or permit the attachment of 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 for Service.-The subscriber is required to pay, in accordance with the Telephone Company's established tariffs, collection and billing practics, all gharges for exchange service and equipment, and for all toll messages or service rendered to his station, including all toll messages on which the charges have been reversed and aecepted by any party at his station. All bills are due when rendered and are payable at the Telephone Company's business offices. phone Company's property, the Telephone Company shall have the right to remove such instruments, apr paratus, or devices or to suspend the service so long as such instruments, apparatus, tached or connected, subscriber, if service is interrupted for more than 24 hours, and for causes other than ths negligence or willful act of the subscriber, an allowance shall be made, at or to terminate the service. Interruptions to Service.-When requested by the or devices are so at- accordance wiih the preceding paragraphs, but the service has not been terminated or the order to remove the service has not been completed, if 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 service application. In the event that any sum due (except as provided below) is not paid on or before the 14th day after the issuance of the bill, a written notice may be sent to the subscriber, calling attention to the fact that the amount is due; and, if payment is not made within seven days thereafter, the Company may deny service without further notice. When the service of a subscriber has been denied in The Regulations Herein Stated aro Excerpts from the Official Regulations o{ this Company as on FiIe with the Illinois Commerce Commission December 1, 1934. u McIlemy

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