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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.1 - Purpose

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
This Part sets forth the commission's rules and regulations
					 which apply to the provision of basic local exchange service by telephone
					 corporations when service is provided to residential customers or applicants
					 for residential service as defined in section
					 609.2  of
					 this Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.4 - Suspension or termination of basic local exchange service

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(a) Conditions for suspension or termination.
				  A telephone corporation may suspend or terminate basic local exchange service
				  as provided for in these rules if the customer:
(1) fails to pay the telephone corporation
				  charges due at any time during the preceding six months; provided, however,
				  that suspension or termination of service for bills due for service rendered
				  during periods in excess of the six-month period is permitted in cases
				  involving billing disputes during the six- month period or the culpable conduct
				  of the customer; and provided further, that the telephone corporation shall
				  commence any such billing not more than two months after the resolution of the
				  billing dispute, the cessation of the event which caused the telephone
				  corporation to delay or delays caused by the customer's culpable
				  conduct;
(2) fails to pay amounts
				  due under a deferred payment agreement;
(3) fails to pay or agree in writing to pay
				  equipment and installation charges relating to the initiation of service;
				  or
(4) fails to pay a lawfully
				  required deposit.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.6 - Voluntary third-party notice prior to termination of service

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Every telephone corporation shall permit a residential
					 customer to designate a third party to receive all notifications relating to
					 suspension and/or termination of service or other credit notices sent to such
					 residential customer, provided that the designated third party agrees in
					 writing to receive such notices. The telephone corporation shall inform the
					 third party that the authorization to receive such notices does not constitute
					 acceptance of any liability on the third party for service provided to the
					 customer. The telephone corporation shall promptly notify the residential
					 customer of the refusal or cancellation of such authorization by the third
					 party.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.7 - Reconnection of service

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(a) A telephone
				  corporation shall reconnect suspended or terminated basic local exchange
				  service within 24 hours, unless prevented by circumstances beyond the telephone
				  corporation's control or unless a customer requests otherwise, in the following
				  situations:
(1) receipt by the telephone
				  corporation of the full amount of arrears for which service was suspended or
				  terminated or upon the elimination of conditions that warranted suspension or
				  termination of service;
(2)
				  agreement by the telephone corporation and the customer on a deferred payment
				  plan and the payment of a down payment, if required, under the plan;
(3) where a telephone corporation has notice
				  that a serious impairment to health or safety exists and telephone service is
				  necessary to insure accessibility of emergency medical assistance, assistance
				  relating to medical care or professional advice. Doubts as to whether
				  reconnection of service is required for health or safety reasons shall be
				  resolved in favor of reconnection; or
(4) upon the direction of the commission or
				  its designee.
Comment:A telephone corporation may not insist upon payment
					 of lawful charges that did not provide the basis for suspension or termination
					 before restoring service under this subdivision. In these circumstances,
					 payment of other lawful charges that did not form the basis for the suspension
					 or termination should be part of the deferred payment plan in accordance with
					 section
					 609.8 
					 of this Part, unless the customer elects to pay such charge immediately.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.8 - Deferred payment agreements

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(a) No
				  telephone corporation shall suspend, terminate or refuse to restore or provide
				  basic local exchange service to a residential customer, who has been an
				  existing residential customer for three months and for whom basic local
				  exchange service has not been terminated for nonpayment during that period
				  because of arrears owed on such person's account unless it offers the customer
				  a deferred payment agreement pursuant to this section. Customers with medical
				  emergencies and customers who are elderly, blind or disabled shall be exempt
				  from such eligibility criteria. However, any such agreement shall not be
				  available to any customer who the commission or its designee determines has the
				  resources available to pay his or her bill. The offer of a deferred payment
				  agreement shall specify the total amount of arrears, the down payment, the
				  installment payments and the time for making such payments. The telephone
				  corporation shall mail to the customer not less than six days prior to
				  termination of service, a notice describing to the customer a deferred payment
				  plan which shall contain a conspicuous, bold-type notice that the customer may
				  obtain the assistance of the commission in reaching an agreement. Where service
				  is already terminated pursuant to section
				  609.4 
				  of this Part, such notice shall be given at the time the customer requests
				  reconnection. A new deferred payment agreement need not be offered to a
				  customer who is in default on an existing deferred payment agreement; provided,
				  however, that such a customer may have his or her existing payment agreement
				  renegotiated once within a 24-month period if he or she demonstrates that his
				  or her financial circumstances have changed significantly because of conditions
				  beyond his or her control.
(b) A
				  deferred payment agreement:
(1) shall obligate
				  the customer to make timely payments of current charges for basic local
				  exchange service together with payment of the amount deferred during the
				  pendency of the agreement;
(2)
				  shall be for total amounts up to $150 but may be greater amounts if agreed to
				  by the telephone corporation or directed by the commission or its authorized
				  designee;
(3) shall be for a time
				  period of no less than five months unless otherwise agreed to by the customer;
				  and
(4) may require the customer to
				  make a down payment which shall not exceed the lesser of one fifth of the
				  amount deferred or three months of the customer's average billing for basic
				  local exchange service plus the difference, if any, between the total amount of
				  arrears and the amount being deferred.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.9 - Residential basic local exchange service deposits

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(a) No telephone corporation shall require
				  any applicant or existing residential customer to post a security deposit as a
				  condition of receiving basic local exchange service unless the existing
				  residential customer or applicant:
(1) is a
				  seasonal customer or short-term customer;
(2) is an existing residential customer who
				  has accumulated two consecutive months of arrears without making reasonable
				  payment of such charges, defined as one half of the total arrears, prior to the
				  due date of the second bill, provided that the telephone corporation requests
				  such deposit within two months of such failure to pay. A local exchange carrier
				  intending to require a deposit of an existing residential customer shall
				  provide a customer written notice, including the amount of the deposit, at
				  least 10 days before it may assess a deposit, and state that the failure to
				  make timely payment of the arrears will permit the utility to require a deposit
				  from such customer;
(3) has had
				  basic local exchange service terminated for nonpayment during the preceding six
				  months;
(4) has reportable charges
				  with any other telephone corporation;
(5) does not give a telephone corporation
				  with which he or she is applying for service permission to determine the
				  existence of reportable charges or if the customer has been terminated for
				  nonpayment during the preceding six months on a previous or current account
				  with other local telephone corporations subject to these regulations;
				  or
(6) fails to provide reasonable
				  proof of identity pursuant to section
				  609.3(a)(6) 
				  of this Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.10 - Backbilling on residential accounts

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No telephone corporation shall charge a residential
					 customer for previously unbilled service or adjust upward a bill previously
					 rendered when the period for the unbilled service or billing adjustment is more
					 than 24 months prior to the mailing of the bill or the upward billing
					 adjustment for service to the residential customer unless the culpable conduct
					 of the customer caused or contributed to the failure of the corporation to
					 render timely or accurate billing. If the customer is liable for any service
					 and the delay in billing was not due to the culpable conduct of the customer,
					 the telephone corporation shall explain the reason for the late billing and
					 shall advise the customer that suspension/termination of service is not
					 permitted for nonpayment of charges billed in excess of six months after the
					 service was provided and that payments may be made under an installment payment
					 plan. Any such installment plan must be consistent with a customer's ability to
					 pay and for a reasonable period of time that shall not be less than one month
					 for each month represented by the late-billed charges, unless otherwise agreed
					 to by the customer. If requested by the customer, the explanation for the late
					 billing and the installment payment plan will be provided in writing. An
					 adjustment to increase previously rendered bills more than six months after the
					 time service was provided shall be made within four months of the final
					 resolution of the billing dispute.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.11 - Adjusted payments and other charges

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(a) Adjusted payment schedule. Every
				  telephone corporation shall offer residential customers on fixed incomes the
				  opportunity to pay their bills on a reasonable schedule that is adjusted for
				  such customer's periodic receipt of income.
(b) Other charges. No telephone corporation
				  may charge any residential customer a late-payment charge, penalty, fee,
				  interest or other charge of any kind without the approval of the commission for
				  any late payment, collection effort, service termination or deferred payment
				  agreement occasioned by the customer's failure to make timely payment for
				  services. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a telephone corporation, with
				  the approval of the commission, from imposing a reasonable charge, not in
				  excess of its costs, pursuant to its tariff for restoral of service, dishonored
				  checks and other lawful purposes.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.12 - Contents of bills

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Each telephone corporation's bill to a residential customer
					 shall provide, in clear and understandable form and language:
(a) the name, address and account number of
				  the customer, the name of the telephone corporation, the telephone number of
				  the telephone corporation's business office which may be contacted to discuss
				  the bill, amount owed for the latest period, the date by which payments for the
				  latest period may be paid without a late-payment charge, the late-payment
				  charge for late-paid bills, if any, credits from past bills, any amounts owed
				  and unpaid from previous bills, and credits and charges which are adjustments
				  to past bills due to service and/or rate increases;
(b) a statement of how the bill may be paid;
				  and
(c) an itemized listing of the
				  services being subscribed to, and their monthly rates. An identification of
				  those services which are not necessary for basic service shall be included with
				  each new customer's first bill, each existing residential customer's first bill
				  after a change in service and semiannually for all customers. New customers
				  will be allowed 60 days to change their type or grade of service, or both, and
				  to cancel any optional nonbasic services without incurring any cancellation or
				  nonrecurring charges other than the original service connection and monthly
				  charges for the period service was used. Nothing in this section shall preclude
				  a telephone corporation from providing pertinent messages and information on
				  the bill, provided such information does not interfere with the presentation of
				  the information required by this section.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.13 - Notification requirements

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(a) Annual
				  notification of rights. Every telephone corporation shall, at the time service
				  is initiated to a residential customer and at least annually thereafter,
				  provide residential customers with a plain language summary of their rights and
				  obligations under this Part, or inform customers that such a summary is
				  available and how it can be obtained from the company. At a minimum, the
				  summary shall include the following:
(1) a
				  description of the complaint-handling procedures available at the telephone
				  corporation and the commission:
Comment:Such notice shall clearly state the means by which
					 a complaint can be made to the company and shall also advise the customer that,
					 if after contacting the telephone corporation, the customer remains
					 dissatisfied, he or she may contact the New York State Public Service
					 Commission. Such notice shall further state that the Public Service Commission
					 has a staff available to give assistance in such matters, and shall also
					 specify an appropriate address of the Public Service Commission.
(2) the rights and obligations of
				  residential customers relating to payment of bills, termination of service and
				  reconnection of service;
(3) a
				  description of special protections afforded the elderly, blind and disabled,
				  and persons with medical emergencies;
(4) a request that residential customers who
				  qualify for the protections referred to in section
				  609.5(b) 
				  of this Part voluntarily so inform the utility;
(5) the right of a customer to designate a
				  third party to receive copies of all notices relating to suspension and/or
				  termination of service or other credit notices;
(6) appropriate forms that customers claiming
				  the protections of section
				  609.5 
				  of this Part may fill out and return; and
(7) a description of the customers' rights in
				  regard to deferred payment plans and the holding and demanding of security
				  deposits by the telephone corporation.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.14 - Emergency disconnections of residences

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A telephone corporation may disconnect service to a
					 residence when an emergency may threaten the health or safety of a person, a
					 surrounding area or the telephone corporation's distribution system. The
					 telephone corporation shall act promptly to assure restoration of service as
					 soon as feasible. Service shall be restored to any residence before it may be
					 terminated for any other reason.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.15 - Inspection and examination of telephone corporation apparatus

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(a) A duly authorized agent of the telephone
				  corporation may enter any dwelling, building or other location supplied with
				  service by the telephone corporation for the purposes of inspecting and
				  examining the wires and other apparatus furnished by the telephone corporation
				  and leased by customers for ascertaining any service-affecting problems on a
				  nonholiday workday between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., or at such other reasonable times
				  as requested by a customer. At such time, the agent shall exhibit a
				  photo-identification badge signed by the president or vice-president of the
				  telephone corporation.
(b) The
				  provisions of subdivision (a) of this section shall not apply to the inspection
				  and examination of any such equipment where an emergency may threaten the
				  health and safety of a person, the surrounding area, or the telephone
				  corporation's distribution system.
(c) An agent of the telephone corporation
				  otherwise duly authorized to inspect and examine apparatus, may not enter
				  locked premises without the permission of the person lawfully in control on the
				  premises, nor use any manner of force to carry out inspection and examination,
				  except when an emergency may threaten the health or safety of a person, the
				  surrounding area, or the telephone corporation's distribution system, or where
				  authorized by a court order.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.16 - Telephone corporation complaint-handling procedures

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Customer complaints about bills for telephone service
					 deposit requests or other service problems shall first be made to the telephone
					 corporation. The telephone corporation shall allow complaints to be accepted
					 and processed in a simple manner and form. Every telephone corporation shall
					 promptly investigate any complaint in a fair manner and report the results to
					 the complainant. If the report of the investigation is made orally, the
					 telephone corporation shall provide the complainant, upon request, the report
					 in writing. If the complainant requests the report in writing, the telephone
					 corporation shall send such report in writing within five business days after
					 the request by the complainant. In the event the corporation is unable to give
					 an oral report due to the unavailability of the complainant, either a letter
					 requesting the customer to call the telephone corporation or a written copy of
					 the report shall be sent to the complainant no later than two business days
					 after the results of the investigation are determined. If a letter requesting
					 the customer to call is not responded to by the customer in five business days,
					 a written copy of the report shall be sent to the complainant no later than the
					 seventh business day after such letter was sent to the customer. A telephone
					 corporation resolving a complaint in whole or in part in its favor shall inform
					 the complainant of the availability of the commission's complaint-handling
					 procedures, including the commission's address and telephone number. A
					 telephone corporation shall refrain from suspending or terminating service for
					 nonpayment during the pendency of a complaint before the telephone corporation
					 or the commission and for 15 days after resolution by the telephone
					 corporation, or by the commission or its authorized designee, unless otherwise
					 provided by the commission or its authorized designee; provided, however, that
					 as a condition of continued service during the pendency of such dispute, a
					 customer shall pay the undisputed portions of any bill for
					 service.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter A - Service › Part 609 - Rules Governing Provision Of Telephone Service To Residential Customers › Section 609.17 - Waiver

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Unless otherwise precluded by the Public Service Law or
					 other applicable law, the commission may, for good cause shown or upon its own
					 motion, waive any requirement of this Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter B - Securities › Part 620 - Notice Of Issuance By Telephone And Telegraph Corporations Of Stocks, Bonds, Notes, Or Other Evidences Of Indebtedness › Section 620.1 - Contents of notice

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Pursuant to the provisions of section 101  of the Public Service Law, as amended,
					 every telephone and telegraph corporation subject to said section, after the
					 issuance or assumption of stocks, bonds, notes or other evidences of
					 indebtedness, including bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness,
					 payable on demand or within less than 12 months, shall file with this
					 commission a notice of such transaction within the time and in the form
					 specified in the following:
(a) Name
				  of reporting utility (indicate whether corporation, partnership, individual, or
				  other party).
(b) Address of
				  reporting utility.
(c) The name of
				  the official responsible for statements submitted and to whom should be
				  addressed any correspondence relating thereto.
(d) Date of the report.
(e) Period covered by the report (both dates
				  inclusive where applicable).
(f)
				  Information regarding securities or obligations issued.
(1) Pursuant to authority granted by order of
				  this commission:
(i) Notice of issuance shall
				  be filed within the period specified in the order approving the issuance of the
				  securities or obligations.
(ii)
				  Issuance of capital stock, in exchange for convertible securities issued
				  pursuant to commission authorization, may be reported annually, not later than
				  60 days after the end of the calendar year covered by the report; such report
				  to show only the number of shares of such stock issued during such calendar
				  year, the securities retired by reason of the exchange, and the additional
				  consideration realized, if any, by reason of the exchange.
(iii) For each type of security or
				  obligation, include the following information, as appropriate:
(a) Designation of security--classified
				  according to distinguishing characteristics, such as class of stock of par
				  value or no par value and dividend rate of preferred stock, or character of
				  debt obligation and interest rate or maturity date or other distinguishing
				  characteristic.
(b) Date of actual
				  issue or assumption.
(c) Number of
				  shares of each class of stock or principal amount of each debt obligation
				  issued.
(d) Consideration realized
				  from each class or type of security (if consideration is other than cash, give
				  description and basis of value).
(e) Case number and date of order of this
				  commission under which the security issue was authorized.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter B - Securities › Part 620 - Notice Of Issuance By Telephone And Telegraph Corporations Of Stocks, Bonds, Notes, Or Other Evidences Of Indebtedness › Section 620.2 - Issuance not heretofore reported

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Every such public utility which has not filed with this
					 commission a notice of the issuance of any stocks, bonds, notes, or other
					 evidences of indebtedness now outstanding and issued with or without the
					 approval of this commission shall, within 30 days from the date of service of a
					 copy of this order, file a notice of each such transaction in the form
					 prescribed herein.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 634 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Telephone Utilities › Section 634.1 - General

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Every telephone corporation shall provide interest on
					 customer overpayments according to the standards and criteria set forth in this
					 Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 634 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Telephone Utilities › Section 634.2 - Standards

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A customer overpayment is defined as payment by the
					 customer to the utility in excess of the correct charge for telephone service
					 supplied to the customer which was caused by erroneous billing by the
					 utility.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 634 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Telephone Utilities › Section 634.3 - Rate of interest

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The rate of interest on such amounts shall be the greater
					 of the unadjusted customer deposit rate or the applicable late payment rate, if
					 any, for the service classification under which the customer was billed.
					 Interest shall be paid from the date when the customer overpayment was made,
					 adjusted for any changes in the deposit rate or late payment rate, and
					 compounded monthly, until the date when the overpayment was
					 refunded.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter C - Rates And Charges › Part 634 - Interest On Customer Overpayments To Telephone Utilities › Section 634.4 - Limitations

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This Part applies to refunds returned to customers after
					 the effective date of these rules. No telephone corporation shall be required
					 to pay interest on customer overpayments that are refunded within 30 days after
					 such overpayment is received by the telephone corporation.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 641 - Annual Reports › Section 641.1 - Annual report required

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Except as provided in section
					 641.2  herein,
					 every telephone corporation shall file, in accordance with the requirements of
					 section
					 3.5 
					 of this Title, annually with this commission, at the time and for the period
					 hereinafter provided, an annual report on the form hereinafter
					 prescribed.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 641 - Annual Reports › Section 641.2 - Utilities exempted

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(a) The
				  provisions of this Part shall not apply to telephone corporations having 25
				  stations or less.
(b) Each
				  telephone corporation having 25 stations or less is exempted from filing an
				  annual report unless otherwise ordered by this commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 641 - Annual Reports › Section 641.3 - Definitions

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(a) As used herein,
				  the term average annual operating revenues means the average of the operating
				  revenues for three years preceding the year for which the report is made. The
				  classification on a revenue basis of telephone corporations, however, shall be
				  determined in accordance with the provisions of applicable uniform systems of
				  accounts.
(b) The term corporations
				  includes corporations, companies, associations, partnerships and persons, and
				  their trustees or receivers appointed by any court.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 641 - Annual Reports › Section 641.4 - Prescribed forms

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The following forms are hereby prescribed for the use of
					 the several classes and groups of telephone corporations, and copies of such
					 forms will be furnished or made available to each such corporation (see
					 Appendix 6-A, infra).
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 641 - Annual Reports › Section 641.5 - Period covered

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Every telephone corporation shall file, in accordance with
					 the requirements of section
					 3.5 
					 of this Title, its annual report on the basis of the calendar
					 year.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 641 - Annual Reports › Section 641.6 - Filing of additional reports

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(a) The "metropolitan area" shall be
				  understood to consist of the City of New York and the following counties:
				  Nassau, Suffolk, Orange, Rockland, Putnam and Westchester.
(b) Electronic reports shall be filed, in
				  accordance with the requirements of section
				  3.5 
				  of this Title, by every telephone corporation in Classes A and B outside the
				  metropolitan area described in subdivision (a) of this section.
(c) Electronic reports shall be filed, in
				  accordance with the requirements of section
				  3.5 
				  of this Title, by each telephone corporation in Classes A and B in the
				  metropolitan area described in subdivision (a) of this section.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 641 - Annual Reports › Section 641.7 - Final dates for filing

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Every telephone corporation shall file, in accordance with
					 the requirements of section
					 3.5 
					 of this Title, each annual report as soon as possible after the end of the year
					 covered by the report, but in no event later than the date specified herein.
					 The final dates for filing shall be as follows:
Kind of Utility
Filing Date
Telephone Corporations
March 31
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 642 - Retention By Telephone And Telegraph Corporations Of Records At Principal Office › Section 642.1 - Retention of records at principal office required

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Every corporation, company, association, joint stock
					 association, partnership and person under the jurisdiction of this commission
					 shall retain possession of all accounts, books, contracts, records, documents
					 and papers, and hold them for inspection by the Public Service Commission or
					 its agents or employees at the principal office of such corporation, company,
					 association, joint stock association, partnership and person under the
					 jurisdiction of this commission until this commission has approved of the
					 transfer of its or their property.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 642 - Retention By Telephone And Telegraph Corporations Of Records At Principal Office › Section 642.2 - Notice of transfer

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No such accounts, books, contracts, records, documents and
					 papers shall be transferred from the principal office of such corporation,
					 company, association, joint stock association, partnership and person under the
					 jurisdiction of this commission until notice of such transfer has been
					 submitted to the commission and approval thereof granted.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 642 - Retention By Telephone And Telegraph Corporations Of Records At Principal Office › Section 642.3 - Applicability

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This section shall not apply to telephone corporations that
					 provide service primarily over their own or leased facilities and that do not
					 provide local exchange service. This section shall not apply to non-incumbent
					 telephone corporations that provide local exchange service primarily over their
					 own or leased facilities.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 643 - Accounts, Records And Reports Of General Business Corporations Providing Incidental Utility Service › Section 643.1 - Petition for exemption from requirements

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Any general business corporation supplying utility service
					 where such utility service is wholly subsidiary and incidental to its primary
					 business and is minor in amount as compared with its non- utility operations,
					 may submit to this commission a properly verified petition setting forth the
					 nature and extent of both its general business and its utility business, the
					 number of customers served, the amount of revenue received from such business,
					 and the reasons why it is believed it is not necessary in the proper regulation
					 of its utility operations that its accounts and records be kept pursuant to the
					 applicable system of accounts prescribed by this commission, or that it file
					 with this commission annual reports in the form provided for applicable
					 utilities.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 643 - Accounts, Records And Reports Of General Business Corporations Providing Incidental Utility Service › Section 643.2 - Action on petition

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Upon the receipt of such a petition the commission will
					 conduct a public hearing or make such other investigation as it shall deem
					 necessary, and if it be found that proper and adequate regulation does not
					 require the keeping of accounts in compliance with the system of accounts
					 applicable to corporations primarily engaged in the public utility business or
					 the filing of the type of annual reports required to be filed by such utility
					 corporations, the petitioning corporation may be relieved from keeping its
					 records and accounts in accordance with the applicable system of accounts
					 prescribed by this commission but instead be authorized to keep only such
					 accounts as shall be directed, and may be further authorized to file such form
					 of annual report as may be prescribed.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 644 - Service Records And Reports › Section 644.1 - Information to be furnished

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Each utility shall furnish to the Department of Public
					 Service at such times and in such forms as the department may require, the
					 results of any required tests and summaries or any required records. The
					 utility shall also furnish the department with any information concerning the
					 utility's facilities or operations which the department may
					 request.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 644 - Service Records And Reports › Section 644.2 - Preservation of records

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All records required by this Part shall be preserved for
					 the period of time specified in Part 651 of this Title, unless otherwise
					 specified by the commission.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 644 - Service Records And Reports › Section 644.3 - Capital program filing

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Each local exchange company shall file with the commission,
					 by March 31st of each year:
(a)
				  Capital expenditures, by major account category, actually incurred during the
				  previous calendar year and capital budget projections for each of four years
				  beginning with the current year.
(b) Details of the latest capital expenditure
				  budgets approved by management for the previous calendar year and for the
				  following two years, including brief descriptions of the major programs which
				  comprise the three year budgets approved by management.
(c) A comparison of the actual capital
				  expenditures for the previous calendar year and the amounts previously budgeted
				  for that year and, by major account category, explanations of any significant
				  differences between actuals and budgeted expenditures. Significant differences
				  are defined as plus or minus 20 percent if a company's construction budget was
				  less than $10 million for the latest calendar year, 10 percent if the budget
				  was more than $10 million but less than $100 million, and three percent if the
				  budget was more than $100 million.
(d) Other capital expenditure and
				  accomplishment data to be specified by the director of the communications
				  division.
The level of detail and the reporting format will be
					 prescribed by the director of the communications division.
(e) This section shall not apply to telephone
				  corporations that provide service primarily over their own or leased facilities
				  and that do not provide local exchange service.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 645 - Radio-telephone Utilities › Section 645.1 - Definitions

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The following words and terms, when used in this Part,
					 shall have the meaning indicated:
(a)
				  A radio-telephone utility is a telephone corporation, as defined in the Public
				  Service Law, which owns, operates, or manages any radio-telephone facility used
				  in providing for hire one-way or two-way radio communication of any form
				  whatsoever between points in New York State, regardless of whether the system
				  is interconnected with a landline telephone system, provided however, such term
				  shall not include any landline telephone corporations providing radio-telephone
				  service solely within their landline franchise areas. However, landline
				  telephone companies, in all instances, shall file contemporaneously with this
				  commission a copy of all applications filed with the Federal Communications
				  Commission which pertain to radio-telephone operations.
(b) Radio-telephone facility shall mean any
				  facility within this State which is operated to perform for hire the service of
				  radio communications to members of the public who subscribe to such service and
				  shall include all real property, stations, antennae, radios, receivers,
				  transmitters, instruments, appliances, fixtures and other personal property
				  used by a radio-telephone utility in providing service to its
				  subscribers.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 646 - Applicability Of Regulations To Radio-telephone Utilities › Section 646.1 - Regulations applicable

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All provisions of Parts 600-646 of this Title shall be
					 applicable to radio-telephone utilities with the exception of Parts 601, 602,
					 603, 604, 640 and 641 and section
					 644.3.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 646 - Applicability Of Regulations To Radio-telephone Utilities › Section 646.2 - Free trial service

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Due to the nature of the service provided by
					 radio-telephone utilities and the number of variables which may affect the
					 usefulness of the service to particular subscribers, notwithstanding the
					 provisions of section
					 601.1  of
					 this Title, radio-telephone utilities, and other telephone corporations
					 providing radio-telephone service, may provide radio-telephone service free of
					 charge for a five-day trial period during which the subscriber may gauge the
					 usefulness of the service to his particular circumstances. The trial service
					 may be provided to a prospective subscriber once during any two-year
					 period.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 647 - Resellers Of Telephone Services › Section 647.1 - Definition

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The following term, when used in these regulations, shall
					 have the meaning indicated: a reseller of telephone services is a telephone
					 corporation as defined in the Public Service Law, which shall subscribe to
					 communications services and facilities from a telephone corporation, and which
					 shall reoffer communications services to the public for profit. The term
					 reseller shall not include landline telephone companies other than subsidiaries
					 of landline companies which maintain separate books of account, and shall not
					 include motels, hotels or hospitals insofar as they are providing service only
					 to their transient guests or patients within the confines of their own
					 institutions.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 648 - Applicability Of Regulations To Resellers Of Telephone Services › Section 648.1 - Regulations applicable

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In Parts 600-648 of this Title, resellers of telephone
					 service are subject only to the following provisions: Parts 620, 630, 647, 648
					 and sections
					 644.1
					 and
					 644.2  of
					 this Title.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE › Chapter VI - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS › Subchapter D - Records; Reports › Part 649 - Regulations Applicable To Providers Of Operator Services › Section 649.1 - Regulations applicable

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This Part shall apply to all telephone corporations as
					 defined in the Public Service Law which provide intrastate operator assisted
					 communications services by means of either human or automated call
					 intervention, excluding local exchange telephone corporations to the extent
					 that such corporations provide intrastate operator assisted communications
					 services over their own or interconnected facilities and the rates and charges
					 for such services are contained in rate schedules on file with the
					 commission.