Title 4 — Economic Resources
115 chapters · 1,861 sections in this title.
4 CMC § 8454 Certification of Public Utility Companies
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8454. Certification of Public Utility Companies. (a) (1) Certification Required. Any public utility company interested in providing or operating a service in the Commonwealth shall request, obtain, and maintain a valid certifica…
4 CMC § 8461 Additional Definitions
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8461. Additional Definitions. The following additional definitions apply to this Article: (a) “Federal Communications Act of 1934” means the Federal Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., as amended, which includes…
4 CMC § 8462 Transfers and Capitalization
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8462. Transfers and Capitalization. (a) Transfers. Franchises, certificates of public convenience and necessity, substantial assets as defined by regulation, and certificates of capital stock of a telecommunications company, as …
4 CMC § 8463 Compliance: Standards of Service and Facilities
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8463. Compliance: Standards of Service and Facilities. (a) General Standard. Every telecommunications company shall supply and maintain adequate and efficient telecommunications services, where economically feasible, on all Comm…
4 CMC § 8464 Insurance
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8464. Insurance. The Commission shall have the authority to require telecommunications companies to insure for such amounts and against such risks as the Commission determines to be reasonably necessary to guarantee the payment …
4 CMC § 8465 Forbearance of Rate Regulation to Facilitate Competition
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8465. Forbearance of Rate Regulation to Facilitate Competition. (a) In accordance with the provisions of this section, the Commission shall forbear regulation as to rates, tariffs, fares, or charges to facilitate competition and…
4 CMC § 8466 Duty to Interconnect
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8466. Duty to Interconnect. (a) The purpose of this section is to implement specific provisions of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Law 104-104. (b) (1) Each telecommunications carrier shall perform the duties …
4 CMC § 8467 Voluntary Negotiation of Interconnection Agreements
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8467. Voluntary Negotiation of Interconnection Agreements. Upon receiving a request for interconnection, services, or network elements, an incumbent local exchange carrier may negotiate and enter into a binding agreement with th…
4 CMC § 8468 Mediation of Interconnection Agreements
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8468. Mediation of Interconnection Agreements. Upon the written request of any party negotiating an agreement for interconnection with another telecommunications carrier, the Commission may designate a mediator, who may be a Com…
4 CMC § 8469 Arbitration of Interconnection Issues
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8469. Arbitration of Interconnection Issues. (a) The Commission has the authority to arbitrate any open interconnection issues pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 252(b), as it existed on February 8, 1996. (b) During the period from the 135…
4 CMC § 8470 Approval of Arbitration Decision
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8470. Approval of Arbitration Decision. (a) If the Commission has not approved or rejected in its entirety an agreement adopted by arbitration within thirty days of submission by the parties, the agreement is considered approved…
4 CMC § 8471 Approval of Interconnection Agreements
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8471. Approval of Interconnection Agreements. (a) Within thirty days of filing of an interconnection agreement adopted by negotiation of the parties to an agreement, the Commission shall approve or reject the agreement, or the a…
4 CMC § 8472 Determination of Eligible Carrier Status — Universal Service Support
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8472. Determination of Eligible Carrier Status — Universal Service Support. (a) The Commission is authorized to designate telecommunications carriers as eligible for Federal Universal Service support, in accordance with 47 U.S.C…
4 CMC § 8473 Discounts for Schools, Libraries, Youth Learning Centers and Health Care Providers
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8473. Discounts for Schools, Libraries, Youth Learning Centers and Health Care Providers. The Commission is authorized to establish intra-Commonwealth discounts to schools, libraries, youth learning centers and health care provi…
4 CMC § 8474 Additional Duties as to Telecommunication
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8474. Additional Duties as to Telecommunication. With respect to telecommunication companies, the Commission shall: (a) Ensure that there shall be no discrimination in services (including the types, quality or pricing of service…
4 CMC § 8475 Regulations
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8475. Regulations. The Commission shall coordinate with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to adopt specific regulations for its designated telecommunication service providers to preserve and advance universal service, c…
4 CMC § 8476 Certification of Telecommunication Companies
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8476. Certification of Telecommunication Companies. (a) (1) Certification Required. Any telecommunications company interested in providing or operating a telecommunications service in the Commonwealth shall request, obtain, and …
4 CMC § 8477 Wireless Service Coverage Maps
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8477. Wireless Service Coverage Maps. (a) Establishment of Wireless Service Coverage Maps. All commercial wireless service providers are required to make available a map of the geographic area for which such provider is licensed…
4 CMC § 8478 Cellular Prepaid and MiFi Credits: 90-Day Expiration Date
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES § 8478 DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8478. Cellular Prepaid and MiFi Credits: 90-Day Expiration Date. (a) Telecommunication companies shall impose a 90-day expiration date on cellular prepaid cards and MiFi credits and allow customers to continue using the c…
4 CMC § 8481 Regulation of Cable Television
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8481. Regulation of Cable Television. The Legislature finds that currently the only means of direct public local television coverage services is through cable television. It further finds that need for adequate access to quality…
4 CMC § 8482 Rates, Charges, and Assessments
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8482. Rates, Charges, and Assessments. (a) All rates, charges, assessments, and costs made or charged by any cable television shall be just and reasonable and in conformance with federal law. (b) The Commission shall regulate ra…
4 CMC § 8483 Public, Educational, Governmental Access Channel
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8483. Public, Educational, Governmental Access Channel. Cable television companies shall be subject to Section 8426 of this Chapter; provided that cable television companies may be eligible for a discounted annual charge imposed…
4 CMC § 8484 Rule-making
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 8: UTILITIES § 8484. Rule-making. The Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this Act. Source: PL 15-35, § 2 (8461), modified.
4 CMC § 9401 Title
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9401. Title. This chapter may be known as the Right To Work Act of 1995. Source: PL 9-48, § 1. Commission Comment: PL 9-48 took effect September 5, 1995. According to PL 9-48, § 2: Section 2. Legislative Findings; Policy. (a) The le…
4 CMC § 9402 Denial of Right to Work for Membership or Nonmembership in Labor Organization Declared to be Against Public Policy
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9402. Denial of Right to Work for Membership or Nonmembership in Labor Organization Declared to be Against Public Policy. It is hereby declared to be public policy of the Commonwealth that the right of persons to work shall not be d…
4 CMC § 9403 Certain Acts Required of Employee as Condition of Employment or Continuance of Employment Made Unlawful
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9403. Certain Acts Required of Employee as Condition of Employment or Continuance of Employment Made Unlawful. It shall be unlawful for any employer: (a) To require any employee, as a condition of employment, or of continuance of em…
4 CMC § 9404 Contract Requiring or Prohibiting Labor Union Membership Void
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9404. Contract Requiring or Prohibiting Labor Union Membership Void. A contract is void if it requires that to work for an employer, employees or applicants for employment: (a) Must be or may not be members of a labor union; or (b) …
4 CMC § 9405 Agreement Between Employer and Labor Organization Denying Nonmembers Right to Work or Requiring Union Membership Unlawful
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9405. Agreement Between Employer and Labor Organization Denying Nonmembers Right to Work or Requiring Union Membership Unlawful. Any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor organization whereby persons not member…
4 CMC § 9406 Fee for Privilege to Work Prohibited
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9406. Fee for Privilege to Work Prohibited. A labor union, a labor organizer, or an officer, member, agent, or representative of a labor union may not collect, receive, or demand, directly or indirectly, a fee as a work permit or as…
4 CMC § 9407 Deduction of Labor Organization Membership Dues From Wages
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9407. Deduction of Labor Organization Membership Dues From Wages. Nothing in this chapter shall preclude any employer from deducting from the wages of the employees and paying over to any labor organization, or its authorized repres…
4 CMC § 9408 Interference with Right to Work, Compelling Labor Organization Membership, Picketing and the Like Made Unlawful
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9408. Interference with Right to Work, Compelling Labor Organization Membership, Picketing and the Like Made Unlawful. It shall be unlawful for any person, acting alone or in concert with one or more persons: (a) By force, intimidat…
4 CMC § 9409 Labor Organization Contract Violating Right to Work Provisions
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9409. Labor Organization Contract Violating Right to Work Provisions. It shall be unlawful for any labor organization to enter into or seek to effect any agreement, contract or arrangement with any employer declared to be unlawful b…
4 CMC § 9410 Penalties
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9410. Penalties. Any employer, labor organization or other person whomsoever who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shal…
4 CMC § 9411 Remedy for Violations of Rights; Relief Which Court May Grant
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9411. Remedy for Violations of Rights; Relief Which Court May Grant. Any person whose rights are adversely affected by any contract, agreement, assemblage or other act or thing done or threatened to be done and declared to be unlawf…
4 CMC § 9412 Applicability of Right to Work Provisions
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9412. Applicability of Right to Work Provisions. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any contract, otherwise lawful, in force and effect on September 5, 1995, but they shall apply to all contracts thereafter concluded …
4 CMC § 9413 Labor Management Relations Act
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9413. Labor Management Relations Act. The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to conflict with provisions of the Labor-Management Relations Act [29 U.S.C. § 141 et seq.] which are applicable to the Commonwealth pursuan…
4 CMC § 9414 Nonresident Workers Act
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 9: LABOR § 9414. Nonresident Workers Act. No provision of this chapter shall be construed to supersede, amend, or modify the application of any provision of title 3, division 4, chapter 4, the Nonresident Workers Act, as amended [3 CMC § 4411 …
4 CMC § 10501 Definitions
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 10: COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY § 10501. Definitions. As used in this division: (a) “Bond trustee” means the trustee under the indenture of trust. (b) “Bondholder” means any person who shall be the registered owner of any outst…
4 CMC § 10502 Power to Pledge Covenant Funds
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 10: COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY § 10502. Power to Pledge Covenant Funds. Covenant funds may be pledged to secure the payment of principal, premium and interest on bonds, the proceeds of which are to be used by CEDA to finance s…
4 CMC § 10503 Covenant Funds; Appropriations
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 10: COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY § 10503. Covenant Funds; Appropriations. Pursuant to a grant pledge agreement between the Commonwealth and DOI, or any successor to DOI, with respect to Covenant funds, such pledged Covenant funds shall b…
4 CMC § 10504 Release of Covenant Funds
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 10: COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY § 10504. Release of Covenant Funds. The CEDA is hereby authorized to direct the Covenant funds trustee to pay and the Covenant funds trustee shall pay in accordance with such direction, amounts, …
4 CMC § 10505 Exclusive Use
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 10: COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY § 10505. Exclusive Use. Covenant funds in the parity lot subaccounts of the trust account, or interest earned therefrom, may only be used to pay or provide for the payment of principal, premium and intere…
4 CMC § 10506 Lapse of Trust Account Funds
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 10: COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY § 10506. Lapse of Trust Account Funds. If, for any reason whatsoever, Covenant funds, or interest earned therefrom, are no longer needed to secure, or to make, principal or interest payments to b…
4 CMC § 10507 Investment of Funds in Parity Lot Subaccounts
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 10: COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY § 10507. Investment of Funds in Parity Lot Subaccounts. The Covenant funds trustee is authorized to invest and reinvest amounts in parity lot subaccounts of the trust account as allowed by law an…
4 CMC § 10508 Revolving Fund Proceeds; Use
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 10: COMMONWEALTH DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY § 10508. Revolving Fund Proceeds; Use. Loan agreement repayments made by an autonomous public agency shall be deposited only into the revolving fund for financing of additional revenue and non-revenue pro…
4 CMC § 1501 Bar Tax
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 1: REVENUE AND TAXATION § 1501. Bar Tax. (a) There is imposed upon any person doing business in any establishment located in the Commonwealth which is licensed to serve alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises of the establishment, …
4 CMC § 1502 Hotel Occupancy Tax
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 1: REVENUE AND TAXATION § 1502. Hotel Occupancy Tax. (a) An occupancy tax is imposed upon transient occupants of a room or rooms in a hotel, lodging house, motel, resort motel, apartment, apartment motel, rooming house, private residence, bed …
4 CMC § 1503 Amusement Machines
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 1: REVENUE AND TAXATION § 1503. Amusement Machines. (a) There is imposed the following annual license fees for the commercial operation of amusement machines in the Commonwealth as follows: (1) For amusement machines (other than poker, pachink…
4 CMC § 1504 Limitation on Number of Poker Machine Licenses Issued
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 1: REVENUE AND TAXATION § 1504. Limitation on Number of Poker Machine Licenses Issued. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) or (d) of this section, the total number of poker machine licenses issued under this chapter shall not exceed 200 p…
4 CMC § 1505 Gaming Machine Jackpot Tax
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TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 1: REVENUE AND TAXATION § 1505. Gaming Machine Jackpot Tax. A tax on all winnings from poker machines, pachinko machines, slot machines, pachinko slot machines, and similar gaming devices shall be assessed as follows: (a) Jackpot winnings shal…