STATE OF NEW YORK
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1791
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to prohibiting
certain additional charges for unlisted telephone numbers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
2 92-h to read as follows:
3 § 92-h. Telephone service; charges. No telephone corporation or
4 provider or any person, firm or corporation acting as an agent or repre-
5 sentative of a telephone corporation or provider shall impose any addi-
6 tional charge for unlisted telephone numbers over and above the custom-
7 ary charges imposed by that telephone corporation or provider for listed
8 telephone numbers, nor should any fee be associated with making private
9 a telephone number that is public. In construing and enforcing the
10 provisions of this section, the act of any person, firm or corporation
11 acting as an agent or representative of a telephone corporation shall be
12 deemed to be the act of such telephone corporation.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law; provided that the public service commission is
15 authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any
16 other measures necessary to implement section one of this act on its
17 effective date on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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