§ 100. Transfer and ownership of stock. 1. No telegraph corporation or telephone corporation, domestic or foreign, shall hereafter purchase or acquire, take or hold any part of the capital stock of any telegraph corporation or telephone corporation organized or existing under the laws of this state unless authorized so to do by the commission. […]
§ 101. Authority to issue stock, bonds and other forms of indebtedness. A telegraph or telephone corporation may, when authorized by the commission, issue stock, bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods of more than twelve months after the date thereof, or a receiver of such a corporation, if duly authorized by […]
§ 101-a. Reorganization. 1. Reorganization of telegraph and telephone corporations pursuant to sections ninety-six and ninety-seven of the stock corporation law and such other laws as may be enacted from time to time shall be subject to the supervision and control of the commission and no such reorganization shall be had without the authorization of […]
§ 102. IntraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier-change charge study. 1. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Provider of telephone service” means a telephone corporation that provides intraLATA or local exchange telephone service to end-use customers. (b) “Customer change of use charges” means intraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier-change charges, that any […]
§ 103. Commercial landlord-tenant relationship. 1. No landlord of a commercial property shall (a) interfere with the installation of telephone corporation facilities upon such property or premises, except that a landlord of a commercial property may require: (1) that the installation of telephone corporation facilities conform to such reasonable conditions as are necessary to protect […]
§ 104. Fiber-based services. 1. Where a telephone line, as such term is defined in subdivision eighteen of section two of this chapter, or a portion of a telephone line, has previously been placed by a telephone corporation in or on a building or other property of an owner other than the telephone corporation and […]
§ 104-a. Notice to customers on fiber optic-based telephone lines. 1. The commission shall require each telephone corporation that provides local exchange service to provide a notice containing information to customers on the differences between copper-based telephone lines and fiber optic-based telephone lines prior to when such telephone corporation initiates a change in such customer’s […]
§ 92-b. Telephone deposits and payment plans for the elderly. 1. The commission shall require all telephone corporations to exempt the dwelling units of all subscribing individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older from any cash deposit requirement except where the corporation can show that the subscriber is a bad credit risk according […]
§ 92-f. Prepaid telephone calling card consumer protections. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings: a. “Company” means any entity providing prepaid calling services to the public using its own or a resold telecommunications network; b. “Prepaid calling […]
§ 92-g. De-tariffing of non-basic retail services. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, or any regulation or order issued by the commission pursuant to this chapter, and excluding “regulated basic services” as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section ninety-two of this article on and after the effective date of this […]
§ 92-h. Participation in the targeted accessibility fund. 1. As used in this section, the term “fund” shall mean the targeted accessibility fund established by the commission for the purpose, among other things, of providing financial support for the provision of lifeline service in the state. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any […]
§ 92-i. Cramming prohibited. 1. For the purposes of this section, “cramming” means the inclusion and imposition of charges on the invoice or bill of a customer from a telephone corporation at the request of a third party or billing aggregator that (a) were not authorized by the customer, or (b) if authorized, were obtained […]
§ 93. Liability for loss or damage caused by violation of this chapter. In case any telegraph corporation or telephone corporation shall do or cause to be done or permit to be done any act, matter or thing prohibited, forbidden or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any act, matter or other […]
§ 94. General powers and duties of commission in respect to telegraph corporations and telephone corporations. 1. The commission and each commissioner shall have power and authority to administer oaths in all parts of the state to witnesses summoned to testify in any inquiry, investigation, hearing or proceeding and also to administer oaths in all […]
§ 95. Reports of telegraph corporations and telephone corporations. 1. Every telegraph corporation and every telephone corporation shall file with the commission an annual report at a time and covering the yearly period fixed by the commission. Such annual reports shall be verified by the oath of the president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, general manager or […]
§ 95-a. Statements of nature and extent of interests to be filed upon request. Whenever any person or corporation signs or certifies any estimate, appraisal, report, or other statement, to be submitted to the public service commission in relation to any public utility company, in which such person or corporation is or has been financially […]
§ 96. Investigations by commission. 1. The commission may of its own motion investigate or make inquiry in a manner to be determined by it as to any act done or omitted to be done by any telegraph corporation or telephone corporation and the commission must make such inquiry in regard to any act done […]
§ 97. Rates, rentals and service. 1. Whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing, had upon its own motion or upon a complaint that the rates, charges, tolls or rentals demanded, exacted, charged or collected by any telegraph corporation or telephone corporation subject to its jurisdiction for the transaction of messages or […]
§ 98. Power of commission to order repairs or changes. Whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing had upon its own motion, or upon a complaint, that repairs or improvements to or changes in any telegraph line or any telephone line ought reasonably to be made, or that any additions should reasonably […]
§ 99. Franchises and privileges. 1. No telegraph corporation or telephone corporation hereafter formed shall begin construction of its telegraph line or telephone line without first having obtained the permission and approval of the commission and its certificate of public convenience and necessity and the required consent of the proper municipal authorities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, […]
