All rates, rules and regulations now in effect or which may hereafter become effective, which are not higher than the maximum rates prescribed by this Commission, whether such rates are the result of voluntary action upon the part of any company, corporation or person subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission, or otherwise, are hereby established as the rates of the Georgia Public Service Commission, and no such rates shall be discontinued nor raised without the consent of the Public Service Commission first being obtained, but all such rates shall continue in force without hindrance, the same as other rates prescribed by the Commission. Any and all facilities, privileges or service, now in effect or practiced, or hereafter made effective, extended or practiced, which give, grant, extend or allow patrons, shippers or other persons, transacting business with said companies, corporations or other persons as much or more of the privileges, facilities or service to which they are entitled by law or by any rule, regulations or order of this Commission, whether such privileges, facilities or service are given, granted, extended or allowed as the result of voluntary action upon the part of such companies, corporations or persons, or otherwise, are hereby established as the requirements of the Georgia Public Service Commission, and no such privileges, facilities or service shall be discontinued without the consent of the Public Service Commission first being obtained, but all such privileges, facilities or service shall be given, granted, extended or allowed without hindrance, the same as other requirements of this Commission.
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 515-3-1-.06
Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 125, 1907, pp. 72, 75, 1922, pp. 143, 144, 1950, p. 311, 1956, pp. 104, 105, 1970, p. 104, 1972, pp. 138, 439, 615, 1973, pp. 200-220.