392.150. Employees to notify sender when message cannot be transmitted immediately--penalty. - Missouri Statutes

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Employees to notify sender when message cannot be transmittedimmediately--penalty.

392.150. In all cases where application is made to anytelephone or telegraph company, or the operator, agent, clerk orservant thereof, to send a dispatch, it shall be the duty of suchoperator, agent, clerk or servant who may receive dispatches atthat station, plainly to inform the applicant, and, if requiredby him, to write upon the dispatch that the line is not inworking order, or that the dispatches already on hand fortransmission will occupy the time so that the dispatch offeredcannot be transmitted within the time required, or promptly, ifthe facts be so; and for omitting so to do, or for intentionallygiving false information to the applicant in relation to the timewithin which the dispatch offered may be sent, such operator,agent, clerk or servant, and the company by which he is employed,shall incur a like penalty as in section 392.130.

(RSMo 1939 § 5332)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 4927; 1919 § 10138; 1909 § 3332

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Statutes > Missouri > T25 > C392 > 392_150

Employees to notify sender when message cannot be transmittedimmediately--penalty.

392.150. In all cases where application is made to anytelephone or telegraph company, or the operator, agent, clerk orservant thereof, to send a dispatch, it shall be the duty of suchoperator, agent, clerk or servant who may receive dispatches atthat station, plainly to inform the applicant, and, if requiredby him, to write upon the dispatch that the line is not inworking order, or that the dispatches already on hand fortransmission will occupy the time so that the dispatch offeredcannot be transmitted within the time required, or promptly, ifthe facts be so; and for omitting so to do, or for intentionallygiving false information to the applicant in relation to the timewithin which the dispatch offered may be sent, such operator,agent, clerk or servant, and the company by which he is employed,shall incur a like penalty as in section 392.130.

(RSMo 1939 § 5332)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 4927; 1919 § 10138; 1909 § 3332

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Employees to notify sender when message cannot be transmittedimmediately--penalty.

392.150. In all cases where application is made to anytelephone or telegraph company, or the operator, agent, clerk orservant thereof, to send a dispatch, it shall be the duty of suchoperator, agent, clerk or servant who may receive dispatches atthat station, plainly to inform the applicant, and, if requiredby him, to write upon the dispatch that the line is not inworking order, or that the dispatches already on hand fortransmission will occupy the time so that the dispatch offeredcannot be transmitted within the time required, or promptly, ifthe facts be so; and for omitting so to do, or for intentionallygiving false information to the applicant in relation to the timewithin which the dispatch offered may be sent, such operator,agent, clerk or servant, and the company by which he is employed,shall incur a like penalty as in section 392.130.

(RSMo 1939 § 5332)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 4927; 1919 § 10138; 1909 § 3332