New York Public Service Law Article 5 - PROVISIONS RELATING TO TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINES AND TO TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS

• 90 - Application of Article.
  1. The provisions of this article shall apply to communication by telegraph or telephone between one point and another within the state of New York...
• 91 - Adequate Service; Just and Reasonable Charges; Unjust Discrimination; Unreasonable Preference; Protection of Privacy.
  1. Every telegraph corporation and every telephone corporation shall furnish and provide with respect to its business such instrumentalities and facilities as shall be adequate...
• 91-a - Customer of Record for Telephonic Blocking and Restrictions on the Removal of Telephonic Blocks to Certain Area Codes.
  Where access to telephone numbers in the 800 and/or 900 area codes has been blocked at the request of the customer of record to prevent...
• 92 - Rate Schedules.
  1. Every telegraph corporation and every telephone corporation shall print and file with the commission schedules showing all rates, rentals and charges for service of...
• 92-a - Special Telephone Equipment for Hearing Impaired Persons.
  * 1. The commission shall require any regulated landline telephone corporation providing local exchange service to sell or lease special telecommunication equipment to a person...
• 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...
• 92-c - Customer Service Requirements for Alternate Operator Service Providers and Cocot Service Providers.
  1. For the purposes of this section: (a) The term "alternate operator service provider" means a telecommunications company, other than a local exchange company, which...
• 92-d - Telephone Solicitations.
  Each local exchange telephone company shall inform its customers of the provisions of sections three hundred ninety-nine-p and three hundred ninety-nine-z and three hundred ninety-nine-pp...
• 92-e - Telephone Service; Changes in Providers.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Hold order or freeze" shall mean a directive to...
• 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....
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: February 3, 2019