WAC 480-143-200. Certain telephone leases are exempt

A telephone utility may lease its properties to another telephone utility without prior commission approval if: (1) The properties are not essential to the lessor's provision of telephone service; (2) The properties are used to transmit interexchange messages between subscribers of different utilities; (3) The lease expedites economical interexchange telephone service; and (4) A copy of the lease agreement is kept in the lessor's office.