California Public Utilities Code

§ 742

PUC § 742 Effective Jan 1, 2014Div. 1 · Part 1 · Ch. 4 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce operating requirements for telephones available for public use that accept any form of payment and that are owned or operated by corporations or persons other than telephone corporations. These requirements shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

(1)A requirement that the telephone corporation furnishing service to the corporation or person owning or operating a telephone that accepts any form of payment terminate service for any violation of the commission’s rules or orders or of this section, upon a determination by the commission that the violation was a significant or repeated violation. Any determination by the commission leading to a termination of service shall be made in accordance with commission rules or orders adopted pursuant to this subdivision.

(2)A requirement that every telephone permit a caller to be connected with the operator personnel of any telephone corporation authorized by the commission to operate within a service area by dialing the numeral “0” and with the emergency services switchboard reached by dialing the numerals “911” without insertion of any coin or without any other form of payment.

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Legislative history

Repealed (in Sec. 3) and added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 140, Sec. 4. (SB 50) Effective January 1, 2014. Section operative January 1, 2015, by its own provisions.