Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-6 - Retail Telecommunication Services › Section 4901:1-6-36 - Telecommunication relay services assessment procedures

Current through
			 all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) This rule is limited to the commission's
			 administration and enforcement of the assessment for the intrastate
			 telecommunications relay service (TRS) in accordance with section
			 4905.84 of the Revised
			 Code.
(B) For the purpose of
			 funding the TRS, the commission will collect an assessment to pay for the costs
			 incurred by the TRS provider for providing the service in Ohio, from each
			 service provider that is required under federal law to provide its customers
			 access to TRS.
(C) Each service provider
			 to
			 which paragraph (B) of this rule applies
								will be
			 assessed by the commission by taking the TRS appropriation and
			 performing a reconciliation to account for over
			 collected or under collected monies from the previous year to obtain the total
			 amount to be assessed which is then divided by the total number of lines
			 reported on the TRS reports for that year resulting in a rate per line. The
			 rate per line is then multiplied by the number of lines per service provider,
			 as reported on the annual TRS reports, which results in a billed amount per
			 company. In accordance with division (C) of section
			 4905.84 of the Revised Code, the
			 billed amount will necessarily vary by year as the appropriation amount, number
			 of service providers, and number of lines in service change per year.
(D) To determine the assessment amount owed
			 by each provider the commission staff should use the
			 number of voice-grade, end user access lines, or their equivalent, as reflected
			 in each provider's most recent federal communications commission form 477,
			 where applicable. All providers are to submit to the commission staff, on a
			 semi-annual basis, a completed form, as prescribed by the commission staff,
			 which contains the number of the provider's retail customer access lines or
			 their equivalent.
(E) Sixty days
			 prior to the date each service provider is required to make its assessment
			 payment in accordance with paragraph (C) of this rule, the commission staff
			 will
			 notify each service provider of its proportionate share of the costs to
			 compensate the TRS provider.
(F)
								 Any
			 telephone company, other than a wireless service provider, that proposes a
			 customer billing surcharge or a change in the surcharge
			 should
			 file a zero-day notice filing (ZTA) with the commission, in accordance with
			 rule 4901:1-6-04 of the
			 Administrative Code. The ZTA will take effect on the same day the filing is
			 made in accordance with paragraph (B) of rule
			 4901:1-6-05 of the
			 Administrative Code. Each regulated provider imposing a surcharge on its
			 customers will provide notice to its customers a minimum of
			 fifteen days prior to the effective date of the surcharge in accordance with
			 rule 4901:1-6-07 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(G)
			 The commission may direct the attorney general to bring an action for immediate
			 injunction or other appropriate relief to enforce commission orders and to
			 secure immediate compliance with this rule.