N.Y. TCP Law § 28
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Transmission of dispatches
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§ 28. Transmission of dispatches. Every such corporation shall receive\ndispatches from and for other telegraph or telephone lines or\ncorporations, and from and for any person, and on payment of the usual\ncharges for transmitting dispatches as established by the rules and\nregulations of such corporation, transmit the same with impartiality and\ngood faith and in the order in which they are received, and if it\nneglects or refuses so to do, it shall pay one hundred dollars for every\nsuch refusal or neglect to the person sending or desiring to send any\nsuch dispatch and entitled to have it so transmitted, but arrangements\nmay be made with the proprietors or publishers or newspapers for the\ntransmission for publication of intelligence of general and public\ninterest out of its regular order.\n
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