Section 5
SEC. 5. All apparatus and appurtenances used by the grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be modern and first-class in every respect, and all telephone lines or installations used, maintained and operated in connection with this franchise by the grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be kept and maintained at all times in a satisfactory manner, so as to render an efficient and adequate telephone service, and it shall be the further duty of said grantee, its successors or assigns, whenever required to do so by the Public Service Commission to modify, improve, and change such telephone system for the transmission of conversations and signals by means of electricity, in such manner and to such extent as the progress of science and improvements in the method of transmission of conversations and signals by means of electricity may make reasonable and proper.