GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION
S.L. 1997-207
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 62-110(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c) The Commission shall
be authorized, consistent with the public interest, to adopt procedures for the
issuance of a special certificate to any person for the limited purpose of
offering telephone service to the public by means of coin, coinless, or
key-operated pay telephone instruments. This service may be in addition to or
in competition with public telephone services offered by the certificated
telephone company in the service area. The certificated local exchange
telephone company in the service area where any new pay telephone service is
proposed shall be the only provider of the access line from the pay instrument
to the network, and the rates approved by the Commission for this access line
shall be fully compensatory, reflect the business nature of the service, and
shall be set on a measured usage rate basis where facilities are available or
on a message rate basis otherwise. The access line from the pay
instrument to the network may be obtained from the local exchange telephone
company in the service area where the pay instrument is located, from any
certificated competitive local provider, or any other provider authorized by
the Commission. The Commission shall promulgate rules to implement
the service authorized by this section, recognizing the competitive nature of
the offerings and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commission
shall determine the extent to which such services shall be regulated and to the
extent necessary to protect the public interest regulate the terms, conditions,
and rates for such service and the terms and conditions for interconnection to
the local exchange network."
Section 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of June, 1997.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 5:20 p.m. this 19th day of June, 1997