Section 759.440 – Additional funding for evaluating project plans.
The Oregon Business Development Department may request approval from the Emergency Board for the transfer of additional funds from a telecommunications carrier’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Account created under ORS 759.405 for the purpose of providing technical assistance to the department and the Oregon Business Development Commission in evaluating project plans submitted under ORS 759.430. If the […]
Section 759.660 – Fixing charges or rates; criteria; costs of hearing.
(1) Whenever the Public Utility Commission of Oregon finds, after hearing had upon complaint by a licensee or people’s utility district or a telecommunications utility that the rates, terms or conditions demanded, exacted, charged or collected in connection with attachments or availability of surplus space for such attachments are unjust or unreasonable, or that such […]
Section 759.445 – Connecting Oregon Communities Fund; School Technology Account; Public Access Account.
(1) There is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund, the Connecting Oregon Communities Fund. Moneys in the fund shall consist of amounts deposited in the fund under ORS 759.405 and any other moneys deposited by a telecommunications carrier that elects to be subject to ORS 759.405 and 759.410, including […]
Section 759.665 – Considerations in determining just and reasonable rate.
A just and reasonable rate shall assure the telecommunications utility or people’s utility district the recovery from the licensee of not less than all the additional costs of providing and maintaining pole attachment space for the licensee nor more than the actual capital and operating expenses, including just compensation, of the telecommunications utility or people’s […]
Section 759.450 – Minimum service quality standards; rules; customer impact indices; factors; wholesale services; improvement plan; penalties; exceptions.
(1) It is the intent of the Legislative Assembly that every telecommunications carrier and those telecommunications utilities and competitive telecommunications providers that provide wholesale services meet minimum service quality standards on a nondiscriminatory basis. (2) The Public Utility Commission shall determine minimum service quality standards that relate to the provision of retail telecommunications services to […]
Section 759.670 – Presumption of reasonableness of rates set by agreement.
Agreements regarding rates, terms and conditions of attachments shall be deemed to be just, fair and reasonable unless the Public Utility Commission finds upon complaint by a telecommunications utility, people’s utility district or licensee party to such agreement and after hearing, that such rates, terms and conditions are adverse to the public interest and fail […]
Section 759.455 – Prohibited acts; commission action on allegation of violation; penalties; judicial review.
(1) Unless exempt from compliance under section 251(f) of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 (47 U.S.C. 251(f)), a telecommunications utility shall not: (a) Discriminate against another provider of retail telecommunications services by unreasonably refusing or delaying access to the telecommunications utility’s local exchange services. (b) Discriminate against another provider of retail telecommunications services by […]
Section 759.675 – Regulatory procedure.
The procedures of the Public Utility Commission for petition, regulation and enforcement relative to attachments, including any rights of appeal from any decision thereof, shall be the same as those applicable to the commission. [1987 c.447 §27; 1989 c.5 §21]
Section 759.500 – Definitions for ORS 759.500 to 759.570.
As used in ORS 759.500 to 759.570, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Allocated territory” means a geographic area for which the Public Utility Commission has allocated to no more than one person the authority to provide local exchange telecommunications service, the boundaries of which are set forth on an exchange map filed with and […]
Section 759.506 – Purpose of allocated territory laws; carrier of last resort obligations; exemptions from obligations; reinstatement of obligations.
(1) The purpose of establishing allocated territories under ORS 759.500 to 759.570 is to ensure that telecommunications utilities, cooperative corporations and municipalities certified by the Public Utility Commission to provide local exchange telecommunications service: (a) Provide adequate and safe service to the customers of this state; and (b) Serve all customers in an adequate and […]