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ID Code § 62-613 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-613 - SUBSIDIZATION OF CERTAIN SERVICES NOT ALLOWED.

62-613. SUBSIDIZATION OF CERTAIN SERVICES NOT ALLOWED. A telephone corporation may not subsidize nonprice-regulated telecommunication services with those telecommunication services price-regulated by the commission pursuant to this chapter or to title 61, Idaho Code. The commission shall not require revenues earned from nonprice-regulated services or affiliates to be attributed to basic local exchange services, nor permit expenses incurred in producing the revenues to be attributed to the cost of providing basic local exchange services. Provided, payments to the universal service fund established by state or federal law shall not be considered to be a violation of this section.  History: [62-613, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 365; am. 1997, ch. 192, sec. 4, p. 543.]
ID Code § 62-614 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-614 - RESOLUTION OF INTER-TELEPHONE CORPORATION DISPUTES.

62-614. RESOLUTION OF INTER-TELEPHONE CORPORATION DISPUTES. (1) If a telephone corporation providing basic local exchange service which has exercised the election provided in section 62-604(2)(a), Idaho Code, and any other telephone corporation subject to title 61, Idaho Code, or any mutual, nonprofit or cooperative telephone corporation, are unable to agree on any matter relating to telecommunication issues between such companies, then either telephone corporation may apply to the commission for determination of the matter. (2) Upon receipt of the application, the commission shall have jurisdiction to conduct an investigation, and upon request of either party, to conduct a hearing and, based upon evidence presented to the commission, to issue its findings and order determining such dispute in accordance with applicable provisions of law and in a manner which shall best serve the public interest.  History: [62-614, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 365.]
ID Code § 62-615 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-615 - AUTHORITY TO IMPLEMENT THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT — SUSPENSION OF OBLIGATIONS OF RURAL CARRIERS — PROMULGATION OF RULES OR PROCEDURES.

62-615. AUTHORITY TO IMPLEMENT THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT — SUSPENSION OF OBLIGATIONS OF RURAL CARRIERS — PROMULGATION OF RULES OR PROCEDURES. (1) The commission shall have full power and authority to implement the federal telecommunications act of 1996, including, but not limited to, the power to establish unbundled network element charges in accordance with the act. (2) Upon petition of a rural telephone company with fewer than two percent (2%) of the nation’s subscriber lines installed in the aggregate nationwide, the commission shall suspend the petitioner’s obligations pursuant to section 251(c) of the telecommunications act of 1996. The period of suspension shall be determined by the commission, consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity, provided that such suspension shall be for a period of not less than three (3) years nor more than five (5) years. All other suspensions, modifications or exemptions pursuant to the telecommunications act of 1996 shall be committed to the commission’s discretion. (3) The commission may promulgate rules and/or procedures necessary to carry out the duties authorized or required by the federal telecommunications act of 1996.  History: [62-615, added 1997, ch. 192, sec. 6, p. 544.]
ID Code § 62-616 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-616 - COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO RESOLVE SUBSCRIBER COMPLAINTS.

62-616. COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO RESOLVE SUBSCRIBER COMPLAINTS. The commission shall have the authority to investigate and resolve complaints made by subscribers to telecommunication services which are subject to the provisions of this chapter which concern the quality and availability of local exchange service, or whether price and conditions of service are in conformance with filed tariffs or price lists, deposit requirements for such service or disconnection of such service by telephone corporations subject to the provisions of this chapter. The commission may, by order, render its decision granting or denying in whole or in part the subscriber’s complaint or providing such other relief as is reasonable based on the evidence presented to the commission at the hearing. Any final order of the commission entered pursuant to this section may be enforced against any telephone corporation by an affected person or by the commission.  History: [62-616, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 367.]
ID Code § 62-616A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-616A - DUTY OF TELEPHONE COMPANY TO CUSTOMERS RELATING TO UNAUTHORIZED CHARGES BY A THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDER.

62-616A. DUTY OF TELEPHONE COMPANY TO CUSTOMERS RELATING TO UNAUTHORIZED CHARGES BY A THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDER. If a customer of a telephone corporation, whether subject to the provisions of this chapter or title 61, Idaho Code, notifies the telephone corporation that an unauthorized charge from a third-party service provider has been included on the telephone customer’s bill by the telephone corporation, the telephone corporation shall remove the disputed charge from the bill and shall credit to the customer any amounts for unauthorized charges, whether paid or unpaid, that were billed by the telephone corporation on behalf of the third-party service provider during the period of six (6) months prior to the customer’s notification to the telephone corporation that unauthorized charges from a third-party service provider have been included on the telephone corporation customer’s bill. Nothing contained herein shall restrict the right of the telephone corporation to recover credited charges from the third-party service provider.  History: [62-616A, added 2005, ch. 200, sec. 4, p. 608.]
ID Code § 62-617 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-617 - TELEPHONE CORPORATION ANTITRUST LIABILITY.

62-617. TELEPHONE CORPORATION ANTITRUST LIABILITY. No action under the antitrust laws or any other provision or doctrine of law of the state of Idaho shall lie against a telephone corporation for providing service in compliance with any order of the commission. Provided however, this section shall not apply to the provision of any service for which the commission has approved or acknowledged an election pursuant to section 62-605(1), Idaho Code, except to the extent such service thereafter is the subject of a specific commission order pursuant to title 62, Idaho Code.  History: [62-617, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 367; am. 2005, ch. 200, sec. 5, p. 608.]
ID Code § 62-618 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-618 - PREEMPTION.

62-618. PREEMPTION. The provisions of this chapter preempt, eliminate, and prohibit any economic, franchise or licensing regulation of telephone corporations subject to this chapter by cities, counties, incorporated or unincorporated areas, special use districts, or any other local governmental entity, of any kind.  History: [62-618, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 367.]
ID Code § 62-619 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-619 - PROCEDURE BEFORE COMMISSION — APPEALS.

62-619. PROCEDURE BEFORE COMMISSION — APPEALS. (1) In all matters arising under this chapter, which are submitted to the commission for decision, order or review, procedure shall be governed by the commission’s rules of practice and procedure. (2) Reconsideration of, appeal from, and stay of orders issued pursuant to this chapter shall be governed by law as for orders of the commission in other matters.  History: [62-619, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 367.]
ID Code § 62-620 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-620 - CIVIL PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.

62-620. CIVIL PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. Any telephone corporation who violates or fails to comply with any final order, decision, rule or regulation duly issued by the commission pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) for each day that the violation continues. Actions to recover penalties under this act shall be brought in the name of the state of Idaho, in the district court in and for the county in which the cause of action or some part thereof arose, or in which the corporation complained of, if any, has its principal place of business, or in which the person, if any, complained of, resides. Such action shall be commenced and prosecuted to final judgment by the attorney for the commission. In any such action, all penalties incurred up to the time of commencing the same may be sued for and recovered. In all such action, the procedure and rules of evidence shall be the same as in ordinary civil actions, except as otherwise herein provided. All fines and penalties recovered by the state in any such action, together with the costs thereof, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general account. Any such action may be compromised or discontinued on application of the commission upon such terms as the court shall approve and order.  History: [62-620, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 367.]
ID Code § 62-621 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-621 - SEVERABILITY.

62-621. SEVERABILITY. If a court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge to be invalid or unconstitutional any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this chapter, such judgment or decree shall not affect, impair, invalidate or nullify the remainder of this chapter, but the effect thereof shall be confined to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this chapter so adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional.  History: [62-621, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 368.]
ID Code § 62-622A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-622A - COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH MINIMUM PRICING OF BASIC LOCAL EXCHANGE SERVICE.

62-622A. COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH MINIMUM PRICING OF BASIC LOCAL EXCHANGE SERVICE. A telephone corporation may file a petition with the commission alleging that another telephone corporation, not subject to regulation pursuant to title 61, Idaho Code, is offering basic local exchange service to customers in a local exchange calling area at a price below its average variable cost of providing such service in the local exchange calling area. The commission shall, if after hearing it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the allegations contained in the petition are true, establish a minimum price for basic local exchange service of the telephone corporation in the local exchange calling area, which minimum price shall reflect the telephone corporation’s average variable cost of providing such service.  History: [62-622A, added 2005, ch. 200, sec. 6, p. 609.]
ID Code § 62-623 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-623 - SUBSIDY REFORM — UNIVERSAL SERVICE — REPORT TO LEGISLATURE.

62-623. SUBSIDY REFORM — UNIVERSAL SERVICE — REPORT TO LEGISLATURE. The commission shall commence a proceeding to: (1) Identify and quantify implicit subsidies within the rates of incumbent telephone corporations including, but not limited to: (a) Access charges paid by intrastate interexchange carriers to incumbent telephone corporations including all of the carrier common line charge; (b) Above cost rates paid by one (1) class of customers to reduce the price paid by another class of customers; and (c) Imputation of revenue from nonregulated telecommunications services. (2) Determine a mechanism for removal of the subsidies from the rates of incumbent telephone corporations and the creation of explicit subsidy mechanisms. (3) Determine revisions that may be necessary to section 62-610, Idaho Code, regarding universal service in order to comply with the telecommunications act of 1996 and regulations promulgated thereunder. (4) On or before the first day of December 1997, the commission shall issue a report to the governor and the legislature recommending any necessary or desirable legislation concerning state and federal universal support mechanisms, the removal of implicit subsidies from rates and other telecommunication matters.  History: [62-623, added 1997, ch. 192, sec. 9, p. 546.]
ID Code § 62-624 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-624 - PROCEEDINGS PRIOR TO ENACTMENT RATIFIED.

62-624. PROCEEDINGS PRIOR TO ENACTMENT RATIFIED. Commission orders issued prior to approval of this act which relate to duties or authority granted to the commission by the telecommunications act of 1996 are hereby ratified and approved to the extent that such actions conform with the provisions of this chapter and the telecommunications act of 1996.  History: [62-624, added 1997, ch. 192, sec. 10, p. 546.]
ID Code § 62-701 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 7 - TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATIONS|Section 62-701 - RIGHT TO USE HIGHWAYS.

62-701. RIGHT TO USE HIGHWAYS. Telephone corporations may construct or install telephone lines along, beneath the surface of or upon any public road or highway, or along, beneath the surface of, or across any of the waters or lands within this state, and may erect or install poles, posts, piers or abutments for supporting the insulators, wires and other necessary fixtures of their lines in such manner and at such points as not to incommode the public use of the road or highway, or interrupt the navigation of the waters.  History: [(62-701) R.S., sec. 2700; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2833; C.S., sec. 4832; I.C.A., sec. 60-701; am. 1992, ch. 147, sec. 1, p. 442.]
ID Code § 62-701A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 7 - TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATIONS|Section 62-701A - AUTHORITY PRESERVED.

62-701A. AUTHORITY PRESERVED. (1) As used in this section, "public rights-of-way" shall mean the surface, the air space above the surface, and the area below the surface of any public street, highway, lane, path, alley, sidewalk, boulevard, drive, bridge, tunnel, park, parkway, waterway, easement, leasehold interest, or similar property which, consistent with the purposes for which it was dedicated, may be used for the purpose of installing and maintaining a telecommunications system. (2) With respect to the installation of its facilities within public rights-of-way, the telecommunications provider shall at all times be subject to the authority of a city, county or highway district. No grant of authority pursuant to this section shall be deemed to waive other rights or requirements of the codes, ordinances or resolutions of a city, county or highway district regarding permits, reasonable fees to be paid, manner of construction, or the like, nor to grant any property interest in the public rights-of-way.  History: [62-701A, added 1997, ch. 385, sec. 1, p. 1240.]
ID Code § 62-702 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 7 - TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATIONS|Section 62-702 - INJURY TO COMPANY’S PROPERTY.

62-702. INJURY TO COMPANY’S PROPERTY. Any person who injures or destroys, through want of proper care, any necessary or useful fixture of any telegraph or telephone corporation, is liable to the corporation for all damages sustained thereby.  History: [(62-702) R.S., sec. 2701; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2834; C.S., sec. 4833; I.C.A., sec. 60-702.]
ID Code § 62-703 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 7 - TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATIONS|Section 62-703 - PENALTY FOR MALICIOUS INJURY.

62-703. PENALTY FOR MALICIOUS INJURY. Any person who wilfully or maliciously does any injury to any telegraph or telephone property mentioned in the preceding section, is liable to the corporation for 100 times the amount of actual damages sustained thereby, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.  History: [(62-703) R.S., sec. 2702; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2835; C.S., sec. 4834; I.C.A., sec. 60-703.]
ID Code § 62-704 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 7 - TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATIONS|Section 62-704 - TRANSFER OF RIGHTS AND FRANCHISES.

62-704. TRANSFER OF RIGHTS AND FRANCHISES. Any telegraph or telephone corporation may, at any time, with the consent of the persons holding two-thirds of the issued stock of the corporation, sell, lease, assign, transfer or convey any rights, privileges, franchises or property of the corporation, except its corporate franchise.  History: [(62-704) R.S., sec. 2703; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2836; C.S., sec. 4834; I.C.A., sec. 60-704.]
ID Code § 62-705 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 7 - TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC POWER CORPORATIONS|Section 62-705 - RIGHTS OF WAY FOR ELECTRIC POWER COMPANIES AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR ANY AGENCY THEREOF.

62-705. RIGHTS OF WAY FOR ELECTRIC POWER COMPANIES AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR ANY AGENCY THEREOF. Any person, company or corporation incorporated or that may hereinafter be incorporated under the laws of this state or of any state or territory of the United States, and doing business in this state, the United States of America or any agency thereof, for the purpose of supplying, transmitting, delivering or furnishing electric power or electric energy by wires, cables or any other method or means, shall have and is hereby given the right to erect, construct, maintain and operate all necessary lines upon, along and over any and all public roads, streets and highways, except within the limits of incorporated cities and towns and across the right of way of any railroad or railroad corporation, together with poles, piers, arms, cross-arms, wires, supports, structures and fixtures for the purposes aforesaid, or either of them, in such manner and at such places as not to incommode the public use of the road, highway, street or railroad, or to interrupt the navigation of water, together with the right to erect, construct, maintain and operate upon said electric power line a telephone line to be used only in connection with the said electric energy and power line; provided, that the party exercising the right of way herein and hereby granted shall first apply to the board of county commissioners for permission to construct in the manner provided by law, and to acquire a right of way and, unless such party be the United States of America or an agency thereof, shall give to the county into or through which the right of way herein and hereby granted is exercised, a bond, with surety to be approved by the board of county commissioners, in the sum of $5000, conditioned to hold the said county harmless from any and all liability on account of the erection, construction, maintenance or operation of the said electric line or lines: provided further, that nothing in this section shall be construed to mean the right to occupy public roads for any railroad or car line of any kind.  History: [(62-705) 1903, p. 343, sec. 1; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 2837; C.S., sec. 4836; I.C.A., sec. 60-705; am. 1945, ch. 37, sec. 1, p. 48.]
ID Code § 62-801 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 8 - TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE MESSAGES|Section 62-801 - REFUSAL TO ACCEPT MESSAGES UNLAWFUL.

62-801. REFUSAL TO ACCEPT MESSAGES UNLAWFUL. It shall be unlawful for any telegraph or telephone company or any person in charge of such telegraph or telephone service, or operating or controlling any public telegraph or telephone system or office within this state, in whole or in part, or any employee thereof, to fail or refuse to accept and transmit to its final destination, promptly and by the most expeditious means of communication available between the place of receipt and destination thereof, any message or communication when the same shall be presented for transmission to any regular telegraph or telephone station upon any of its lines, and the regular and usual fees and charges paid, tendered or offered thereon: provided, that when any message or communication is offered which is couched, in whole or in part, in obscene or profane language, nothing in this chapter contained shall be so construed as to compel any telegraph or telephone company, or any person in charge of the same, to transmit such message or communication, and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.  History: [(62-801) 1911, ch. 222, part of sec. 1, p. 704; reen. C.L., sec. 2837a; C.S., sec. 4837; I.C.A., sec. 60-801.]
ID Code § 62-802 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 8 - TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE MESSAGES|Section 62-802 - TELEGRAPH OFFICES MUST CONNECT WITH TELEPHONE.

62-802. TELEGRAPH OFFICES MUST CONNECT WITH TELEPHONE. All telegraph offices or stations from which messages are transmitted, or at which messages are received for transmission shall be equipped with proper telephone connections in order that messages and communications may be expeditiously transferred from telegraph to telephone lines or from telephone to telegraph lines when such transfer will accelerate the transmission of any such messages or communications: provided, that nothing herein is intended to require said telegraph companies or any one operating or controlling any telegraph system or office within this state to build a telephone line, it being intended to require such company to install a telephone in each of its offices where such telephone can be obtained by it, as it may be obtained by other business offices in the same vicinity.  History: [(62-802) 1911, ch. 222, part of sec. 1, p. 704; compiled and reen. C.L., sec. 2837b; C.S., sec. 4838; I.C.A., sec. 60-802.]
ID Code § 62-803 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 8 - TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE MESSAGES|Section 62-803 - MESSAGES MUST BE WIRED WHEN POSSIBLE.

62-803. MESSAGES MUST BE WIRED WHEN POSSIBLE. It is the purpose of this chapter, among other things, to require cooperation on the part of telegraph and telephone companies in the transmission of messages and communications to or from any place where the use of both means of communication is necessary or desirable and where such use will expedite the transmission of any such message or communication; and it shall be unlawful for any telegraph or telephone company or any person having charge of any public telegraph or telephone service or system, controlling or operating any such system within this state, in whole or in part, or any employee thereof, to transmit any message or communication upon which the fees and charges have been paid, tendered or offered, as herein provided, by mail, over any portion of the distance over which such message or communication is to be transmitted, unless neither telegraph nor telephone service is available, and then such means of transmission shall only be used for such distance as necessary in conveying such message to the nearest telegraph or telephone station.  History: [(62-803) 1911, ch. 222, sec. 2, p. 704; reen. C.L., sec. 2837c; C.S., sec. 4839; I.C.A., sec. 60-803.]