§ 41.31 - Records to be maintained and reports to be filed.

Common carriers subject to the Act shall maintain records and file reports as follows:

(a) Each such carrier shall maintain its records in such manner as to reflect at all times the name and address of every person holding a telegraph or telephone frank and the office, employment or relationship held by each such person entitling him to a frank; and each such carrier shall keep such basic records as would enable it, if ordered by the Commission, to compile a statement for the last preceding calendar year prior to such order or for any other period during which it is required by other rules to retain such rec-ords, showing the above information together with the number of franked communications handled under each frank during such period and the aggregate charges in dollars which would have accrued to the carrier for all of the free service rendered under each frank during such period if charges for all such communications had been collected at the published tariff rates.

(b) With respect to the communications referred to in § 41.13 every carrier subject to the Act shall maintain its records in such a manner as to show the number of each class of such communications handled free of charge: Provided, That with respect to personal telephone calls of officers, agents, or employees of common carriers subject to the Act made free of charge or at reduced rates from telephone company official stations it shall be sufficient, in lieu of such record maintenance, if the carrier be at all times prepared, upon appropriate request, to make studies which will show the number of each class of such communications handled free of charge or at reduced rates.

(c) Each such carrier shall maintain its records in such a manner as to show the number of reports of positions of ships at sea furnished to newspapers of general circulation without charge, or at nominal charges, as authorized in section 201(b) of the Act.