sion arms), with or without associated braces and other hardware. Fixture, special (i.e., a bridge fixture, a tower or other special river crossing or long-span fixture), with or without associated anchors, guys, steps, etc. Pole (i.e., line pole, brace pole, guy pole, or pole forming part of an A or H fixture), with or without associated anchors, guys, steps, etc. Aerial Wire (Account 22)1 Antenna, with or without supports-complete. Equipment such as loading coils, buildingout condensers, carrier-line filters, or auto-transformers-case. Underground dip cable, between poles and/ or buildings-section of. Wire (with or without associated steel pins, insulators, transposition brackets, etc.)one mile or more of one bare wire, or one thousand (1,000) feet or more of one insulated wire. Aerial Cable (Account 23)1 Ocean Cable (Account 31)1 Span of cable, with or without associated suspension strand, clamps, rings, etc. (The term "a span" shall include a length of cable from a "Y" splice not located at a pole to a pole or building). Section or run of cable, with or without associated elements and parts, as follows: (1) Between a manhole, handhole, or service box and a pole, building, fence, wall, or the junction with house cable. (2) Between manholes, handholes, or service boxes; or between an office cable vault and an office manhole. (3) Between a cable vault or an office manhole and the junction with the main frame terminating cables. (4) A section of buried cable 300 feet or more in length, or a section of buried cable between manholes, splicing boxes, or pedestals. 'Ocean-cable carriers may, with respect to pole lines and cables located outside the continental United States, consider as retirement units (1) one entire land section of cable or one continuous mile thereof, whichever is less, and (2) one continuous mile of pole line with or without associated cable, wire, cross-arms, and fixtures. (5) All of a continuous run of one size of house cable. ("All of a continuous run of one size" means a section between splices other than straight splices). (6) All of a continuous run of one size of block cable, i.e., cable attached to buildings, walls, or fences. (“All of a continuous run of one size" means a section between splices other than straight splices). (7) All of a submarine cable for one crossing; or a section of submarine cable 300 feet or more in length. (8) A section of underground dip cable between poles and/or buildings, or the appropriate units listed above. (9) A section of ocean cable between two terminal points, or a section involved in rerouting such cable. However, carriers having a shared interest in ocean cable shall use the same retirement units for such cable as the carrier which performs the initial plant accounting with respect thereto and continues as the party responsible for its maintenance and the accounting therefor. If the party responsible for cable maintenance and the accounting therefor is not a carrier under the Communications Act, the Commission shall be consulted concerning the retirement units to be used. Any length of cable which is a continuation of a unit of cable and is replaced with such unit. Any length of cable connected with but not a part of a terminal, or a case of equipment such as loading coils when replaced with the terminal or case of equipment. Main frame terminating cables (generally silk and cotton insulated)-All the cables including forms used for terminating one outside cable. Anchorage, submarine cable. Cross connecting frame, underground or buried cable. Equipment such as loading coils, buildingout condensers, carrier-line filters, or auto-transformers-case. Frame, submarine or house cable terminating. Fuse pot. Hut or house, submarine cable. Terminal (cable), protected or unprotected, with or without associated balcony, pole seat, pedestal, etc.-complete. Terminal (pressure contactor), with or without contractor. Underground Conduit (Account 28) Conduit, section of (1) Between two manholes, handholes, or service boxes. (2) Between a manhole, handhole, or service box and a pole or building. (3) Between an office cable vault and an office manhole. (4) Underground dips-between two poles, between a pole and a building; between two buildings; or units (1) and (2) above. Manhole, handhole, or service box. NOTE: When a manhole is reconstructed; i.e., enlarged or changed in design, the investment representing the portions of the manhole removed, whether or not replaced, shall be written off to the depreciation allowance account. Pneumatic Tubes (Account 29) Manhole or handhole. Tubing, with or without protective covering section of (1) Between two manholes or handholes. (2) Between a manhole or handhole and a building or the junction with a house tube line. (3) A section of buried tubing 300 feet or more in length. (4) Any length of tubing that is a continuation of a unit of tubing and is replaced with such unit. Message Transmitting and Receiving Equipment (Account 41) and Repeater and Terminal Equipment (Account 42) Each principal item of equipment, such as: Amplifier or magnifier-signal shaping or synchronizing power. Anti-induction equipment, wired and Cabinet (wired)-balancing, cable switching relay, concentrator equipment, fork control, impulse unit, self-service telegraph, or switching equipment. Concentration unit or concentrator. Console, printer. Modulator group. Network, balancing or sending (ocean cable). Register, call circuit. Switchboard, call circuit. Repeater. Switchboard or section thereof (ticker). Table, ticker-auxiliary switchboard, operating, or test. Ticker. Unit, ticker branch station. Office Cable and Conduit (Account 49) The entire cable and conduit installation in a single office. A replacement at a single office under a single (but not unduly parceled) project when the cost of the plant retired exceeds $1,000 or 10% of the cost of all the plant represented in the account for that office. Equipment Furnished Customers The retirement units for this account shall correspond to those designated for comparable equipment in carriers' offices. Other Inside Communication Plant Each principal item of equipment. NOTE: The retirement units for equipment in schools shall correspond to those designated for comparable equipment in operating offices. Furniture and Office Appliances Each principal item of equipment, such as: Air-conditioning units (not part of building). Bed, cot, couch, chest, dresser, or stand. Cabinet or locker-file or storage (except in storerooms). Caldron or kettle, large. Carpet, rug, or other floor covering. Cart, utility service. Cash register. Cashier's cage-detachable. Chair, stool, or bench. Pots, pans, and other cooking utensils-all at one location. Rack or costumer. Rack, bicycle. Radio or phonograph. Range or hotplate-gas or electric. Recreation equipment (such as a pool table). Refrigerator. Safe. Scales. Screen, folding. Shelving, removable-all at one location. Stamp, time. Table-kitchen, cold, or steam. Tank, movable. Toaster, percolator, or other electric appli ance. Typewriter. Urn, coffee or hot water. Vat (not attached to building). Ventilator. Water cooler. Wringer, copy-motor driven. Other Office and Messenger Equipment (Account 69) Each principal item of equipment. Vehicles (Account 71) Each complete item of equipment (the original cost of which was charged to the plant account), such as Automobile, passenger. Earth boring machine. Trailer. Truck, with or without body. Winch, power. Shop Equipment (Account 72) Each principal item of shop equipment such as Air compressor. GENERAL APPLICATION OF RULES 41.11 Services to which rules apply. 41.12 Persons to whom rules apply. 41.13 Carriers, services, and persons to which rules do not apply. LIMITATION AND FORM OF ISSUANCE 41.21 Amount of free service permitted. 41.22 Name of person. ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS 41.31 Records to be maintained and reports to be filed. 41.32 Existing franks not conforming declared void. AUTHORITY: Sec. 4, 48 Stat. 1066, as amended; 47 U.S.C. 154. Interpret or apply sec. 210, 48 Stat. 1073, as amended (47 U.S.C. 210). SOURCE: 28 FR 13200, Dec. 5, 1963, unless otherwise noted. DEFINITIONS § 41.1 Definition of terms as used in this part. As used in this part: (a) The term "frank” means any authority which authorizes free, or partially free, service. (b) The term "families" means the wives, husbands, minor children, and other dependents of the officers, employees, or agents permitted to receive and use franks, but no other person. (c) The terms "officer," "agent," and "employee" include furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated officers, agents, and employees. GENERAL APPLICATION OF RULES § 41.11 Services to which rules apply. Franks valid for interstate or foreign telegraph or telephone service may be issued or used and free service may be rendered only in accordance with the provisions in this part. § 41.12 Persons to whom rules apply. Full time officers, agents, and employees, and their families, of railroad companies, merchant ship companies, motor bus companies, air transport companies, telephone companies, telegraph companies, sleeping car companies, express companies, and pipeline companies (common carriers not subject to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended), may, at the discretion of carriers subject to the Act, receive at less than regularly established rates applicable to the service rendered. (a) Services rendered pursuant to lawful contracts for exchange of services under section 201(b) of the act and which contracts are filed with the Commission, any free service rendered by a cable company pursuant to any obligation of its landing license, or any service rendered pursuant to any rule or order issued under the authority transferred by section 601 of the act. (b) Except as provided in this part, services rendered in connection with situations involving the safety of life and property, including hydrographic reports, weather reports, reports regarding aids to navigation and medical assistance to injured or sick persons on ships and aircraft at sea, as provided in section 359(e) of the act, or in furnishing of reports of positions of ships at sea to newspapers of general circulation, as provided in section 201(b) of the act. (c) Free or concession service now or hereafter granted to officers, agents, or employees of common carriers subject to the act, and to their families. (d) Service rendered pursuant to the provisions of § 2.405 of this chapter. |