Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

237.51 TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACCESS MINNESOTA PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION. § Subdivision 1.Creation. (a) The commissioner of commerce shall: (1) administer through interagency agreement with the commissioner of human services a program to distribute telecommunications devices and interco…

237.52 TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACCESS MINNESOTA FUND. § Subdivision 1.Fund established. A telecommunications access Minnesota fund is established as an account in the state treasury. Earnings, such as interest, dividends, and any other earnings arising from fund assets, must be credit…

237.53 TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICES AND INTERCONNECTIVITY PRODUCTS. § Subdivision 1.Application. A person applying for a telecommunications device or interconnectivity product under this section must apply to the program administrator on a form prescribed by the Department of Human…

237.54 TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY SERVICES (TRS). § Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 1995 c 190 s 17] § Subd. 2.Operation. (a) The commissioner of commerce shall contract with one or more qualified vendors for the provision of Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS). (b) The TRS providers…

237.55 ANNUAL REPORT ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACCESS. The commissioner of commerce must prepare a report for presentation to the Public Utilities Commission by March 31 each year. Each report must review the accessibility of telecommunications services to persons who have communicat…

237.56 ADEQUATE SERVICE ENFORCEMENT. The services required to be provided under sections 237.50 to 237.55 may be enforced under section 237.081 upon a complaint of at least two persons within the service area of any one telecommunications service provider, provided that if only o…

237.57 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. The terms used in this chapter have the meanings given them in this section. § Subd. 2.Competitive service. "Competitive service" means a service that has been determined to be subject to effective competition or emerging competition. § …

237.59 CLASSIFICATION OF COMPETITIVE SERVICE; HEARING. § Subdivision 1.Emerging competitive service. (a) The following services provided by the telephone company are subject to emerging competition unless and until reclassified as noncompetitive or subject to effective competitio…

237.60 DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES; SERVICE COSTS. § Subdivision 1. [Expired] § Subd. 2. [Expired] § Subd. 3.Discrimination. No telephone company shall offer telecommunications service within the state upon terms or rates that are unreasonably discriminatory. No telephone company sh…

237.61 EXPEDITED PROCEEDING. Notwithstanding chapter 14, the commission may conduct an expedited proceeding when authorized under this chapter. In an expedited proceeding, the commission shall give prior notice to interested persons and provide them with an opportunity to present…

237.626 PROMOTION ACTIVITIES. § Subdivision 1.Promotions. A telephone company or telecommunications carrier may promote the use of its services by offering a waiver of part or all of a recurring or a nonrecurring charge, a redemption coupon, or a premium with the purchase of a se…

237.64 REGISTRATION; BOND. § Subdivision 1.Registration. A person, firm, or corporation seeking to become a telephone company, as defined by section 237.01, subdivision 7, and not required to be certified under section 237.16, shall register with the department and the commission…

237.66 DISCLOSURE OF LOCAL SERVICE OPTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Notice to local residential customers. A telephone company, when a residential customer initially requests service or requests a change of service, and annually in the form of a bill insert, shall advise each residential…

237.661 ANTISLAMMING. § Subdivision 1.Antislamming duties of local telephone company. If a customer has elected to exercise the right described in section 237.66, subdivision 1a, the telephone company serving the customer shall not process a request to serve the customer by anoth…

237.662 NOTICE AND DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS OF LONG-DISTANCE PROVIDERS. § Subdivision 1.Information required. When contacted by a customer regarding the purchase of long-distance telecommunications services, or when soliciting customers via mail or telephone, a provider of long-di…

237.663 LOADING. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) or (c), a telephone company or telecommunications carrier providing local service shall not charge a telephone service subscriber, as defined in section 325F.692, for a telephone or telecommunications service that is not re…

237.665 PROHIBITION AGAINST BILLING FOR UNAUTHORIZED CHARGES. (a) A telephone company or telecommunications carrier providing local service shall not include on a customer's bill a charge for goods or services on behalf of a third-party service provider unless the third-party ser…

237.681 PRIVATE SHARED SERVICES. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (1) "private shared services" means the provision of telephone services and equipment, the provision of video programming services, or the provision of broadband services within a user…

237.69 TELEPHONE ASSISTANCE PLAN; DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. The terms used in sections 237.69 to 237.71 have the meanings given them in this section. § Subd. 2. [Renumbered subd 11] § Subd. 3. [Repealed, 1Sp2001 c 4 art 6 s 76] § Subd. 4. [Renumbered subd 17] § Subd. 5.…

237.70 DEVELOPMENT OF TELEPHONE ASSISTANCE PLAN. § Subdivision 1.Commission responsibility. The commission shall develop a telephone assistance plan under this section. § Subd. 2.Scope. The telephone assistance plan must be statewide and apply to local service providers that prov…

237.701 TELEPHONE ASSISTANCE FUND; APPROPRIATION. § Subdivision 1.Fund created; authorized expenditures. The telephone assistance fund is created as a separate account in the state treasury to consist of amounts received by the commissioner of public safety representing the surch…

237.71 TAP RULES. The commission shall adopt rules under the Administrative Procedure Act necessary or appropriate to administer the telephone assistance plan in accordance with this chapter. History: 1987 c 340 s 15; 2014 c 222 art 1 s 44

237.73 OBTAINING SERVICE BY FRAUD; INJUNCTION. § Subdivision 1.Equitable relief. Whenever it appears that a person is engaged in an act that constitutes or will constitute a violation of section 609.893, a representative of a telecommunications provider or a person harmed by an a…

237.74 REGULATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER. § Subdivision 1.Filing requirements. Every telecommunications carrier shall elect and keep on file with the department either a tariff or a price list for each service on or before the effective date of the tariff or price, contain…

237.75 CLASS SERVICE. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "CLASS" or "custom local area signaling service" means a custom calling telephone service that is enabled through the installation or use of Signaling System 7 or similar signaling system and that inc…

237.76 PURPOSE. A telephone company may petition the commission for approval of an alternative regulation plan under sections 237.76 to 237.774. The purpose of an alternative regulation plan is to provide a telephone company's customers with service of a quality consistent with c…

237.761 ALTERNATIVE REGULATION PLAN; SERVICE. § Subdivision 1.Classification of services. An alternative regulation plan must contain provisions that provide for classification of all telephone services as price regulated, flexibly priced, or nonprice regulated consistent with su…

237.762 ALTERNATIVE REGULATION PLAN RATE, PRICE. § Subdivision 1.Initial rate. An alternative regulation plan approved by the commission under this section must provide that the recurring and nonrecurring rates or prices that may be charged by a telephone company for price-regula…

237.763 EXEMPTION FROM EARNINGS REGULATION AND INVESTIGATION. Except as provided in the plan and any subsequent plans, a company that has an alternative regulation plan approved under section 237.764, is not subject to the rate-of-return regulation or earnings investigations prov…

237.764 PLAN ADOPTION; EFFECT. § Subdivision 1.Petition, notice, hearing, and decision. (a) Before acting on a petition for approval of an alternative regulation plan, the commission shall conduct any public meetings it may consider necessary. (b) The commission shall require the…

237.765 QUALITY OF SERVICE. (a) For an alternative regulation plan to be approved by the commission under sections 237.76 to 237.774, the plan must contain an existing service quality plan or settlement for retail customers approved by the commission or if no such plan or settlem…

237.766 PLAN DURATION AND EXTENSION. § Subdivision 1.Plan duration. An alternative regulation plan approved by the commission under section 237.764 must remain in force as approved for the term specified in the plan, which must be for no less than three years. Except as otherwise…

237.767 DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE. Without the express approval of the commission, a telephone company subject to a plan may not discontinue the provision of a service or basic network function that has been classified as price regulated or flexibly priced. History: 1995 c 156 s …

237.768 PERIODIC FINANCIAL REPORT. In addition to the reports required under section 237.766, an alternative regulation plan may require a telephone company to file with the department an annual report of financial matters for the previous calendar year on or before May 1 of each…

237.769 RULES APPLICABLE. Any company under a plan is subject to any rules adopted under section 237.16 on the same date as those rules are applicable to other companies. History: 1995 c 156 s 16,25; 1997 c 223 s 17; 2003 c 97 s 2

237.770 SUBSIDIZATION. No telephone company shall subsidize flexibly priced or non-price-regulated services from other services. A telephone service is not subsidized if the aggregate revenues for the service equal or exceed the total service long-run incremental costs of providi…

237.771 DISCRIMINATION. The rates of a telephone company under a plan must be the same in all geographic locations of the state except for good cause. A plan may contain provisions that define good cause, including consideration of the ability to respond to competition. Sections …

237.772 COST STUDY METHODOLOGY. § Subdivision 1.Total service long-run incremental cost. (a) For purposes of this chapter, total service long-run incremental cost (TSLRIC) means the total cost to the company of supplying a service, group of services, or basic network function. Th…

237.773 ALTERNATIVE REGULATION FOR SMALL TELEPHONE COMPANY. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "small telephone company" means a local exchange telephone company with fewer than 50,000 subscribers that has made an election under subdivision 2 whether or not…

237.774 APPLICATION OF OTHER LAWS. Except as provided in sections 237.76 to 237.773, a telephone company subject to a plan approved under sections 237.764 and 237.773, shall comply with any state or federal laws governing the provision of telephone services. Nothing contained in …

237.775 EXISTING PLAN NOT AFFECTED. An alternative regulation plan approved by the commission prior to May 1, 1997, is not subject to the amendments in Laws 1997, chapter 223; provided that a plan filed, revised, or renewed after that date is subject to those amendments. History:…

237.79 TELEPHONE COMPANY PROVIDING CABLE SERVICE. A telephone company that provides cable television services shall, with respect to provisioning of those services in Minnesota, be subject to the same franchise requirements, procedures, and fees, and public, educational, and gove…

237.80 INTEREXCHANGE TELEPHONE SERVICE. § Subdivision 1. MS 2012 [Repealed, 2014 c 222 art 1 s 58] § Subd. 2.Consultation with FCC. Any investigation or proceeding by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the purpose of verifying compliance with the competitive checklist …

237.81 SCOPE. To the extent they regulate telecommunications right-of-way users, sections 237.04; 237.16, subdivision 1; 237.162; 237.163; and 237.74, subdivision 5, supersede section 222.37, and any ordinance, regulation, or rule to the contrary. History: 1997 c 123 s 7; 2005 c …

237.82 DEFINITIONS; CALL LOCATION INFORMATION. § Subdivision 1.Scope. The definitions in this section apply to section 237.83. § Subd. 2.Call location information. "Call location information" means information indicating the geographical location of a telecommunications device. §…

237.83 DISCLOSURE OF CALL LOCATION INFORMATION; EMERGENCY SITUATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Written request. Upon receipt of a written request from a law enforcement agency stating that the disclosure of call location information is needed in an emergency situation that involves the ri…