South Dakota Administrative Code

20:10:28:91. Network support expenses, account 6110 -- General support expenses, account 6120 -- Included expenses -- Apportionment of expenses. Network support expenses, account 6110, are expenses associated with motor vehicles, aircraft, special purpose vehicles, garage work eq…

20:10:28:92. Central office expenses, accounts 6210, 6220, and 6230 -- Apportionment of expenses. The expenses related to central office equipment are summarized in the following accounts: (1) Central office switching expenses, account 6210; (2) Operator systems expenses, account…

20:10:28:93. Classification of information origination/termination expenses, account 6310. Information origination/termination expenses, account 6310, are classified as other information origination/termination equipment expenses and as customer premises equipment expenses. For s…

20:10:28:94. Other information origination/termination equipment expenses -- Included expenses -- Apportionment of expenses. Other information origination/termination equipment expenses include all expenses not associated with customer premises equipment expenses. These expenses …

20:10:28:95. Assignment of customer premises equipment expenses. Expenses related to customer premises equipment are assigned to other services operations. Source: 19 SDR 111, effective January 31, 1993. General Authority: SDCL 49-1-11, 49-31-5, 49-31-18. Law Implemented: SDCL 49…

20:10:28:96. Cable and wire facilities expenses, account 6410 -- Included expenses -- Assignment of expenses. Account 6410, cable and wire facilities expenses, includes the expenses for poles, antenna-supporting structures, aerial cable, underground cable, buried cable, submarine…

20:10:28:97. Plant-nonspecific operations expenses -- Accounts. Plant-nonspecific operations expenses include the following accounts: (1) Other property, plant, and equipment expenses, account 6510; (2) Network operations expenses, account 6530; (3) Access expenses, account 6540;…

20:10:28:98. Other property plant and equipment expenses, account 6510 -- Included expenses -- Apportionment of expenses. Account 6510, other property plant and equipment expenses, is used to record the expenses associated with property held for future telecommunications use and …

20:10:28:99. Network operations expenses, account 6530 -- Included expenses -- Apportionment of expenses. Account 6530, network operations expenses, includes the expenses associated with the provisions of power, network administration, testing, plant operations administration, an…

Rule 20:10:29:01 Definitions. 20:10:29:01. Definitions. Terms defined in SDCL 49-31-1 have the same meaning when used in this chapter. In addition, terms used in this chapter mean: (1) "Access minutes," usage of exchange facilities in intrastate service for the purpose of calcula…

Rule 20:10:29:02 Application of access charges -- General. 20:10:29:02. Application of access charges -- General. This chapter establishes rules for switched access charges for intrastate switched access services provided by telecommunications companies. Such switched access char…

Rule 20:10:29:03 Charges to be filed. 20:10:29:03. Charges to be filed. A carrier's carrier's or association's charges for intrastate switched access service filed with the commission shall include charges for each of the following element: (1) Carrier common line; (2) Local swit…

Rule 20:10:29:04 Persons to be assessed -- Monthly billing. 20:10:29:04. Persons to be assessed -- Monthly billing. A carrier's carrier's or association's charges are computed and assessed on a party that uses local exchange switching facilities for the provision of intrastate te…

Rule 20:10:29:05 Measurement of usage. 20:10:29:05. Measurement of usage. On the originating end of an intrastate call, usage is measured from the time the originating end user's call is delivered by the telecommunications company and acknowledged as received by the interexchange…

Rule 20:10:29:06 Origination and termination of a service. 20:10:29:06. Origination and termination of a service. Origination of a service that is switched in a class 4 switch (toll office switch) or an interexchange switch that performs an equivalent function ends when the trans…

Rule 20:10:29:07 End users. 20:10:29:07. End users. A customer of an intrastate telecommunications service that is not a carrier is an end user. However, a carrier other than a telecommunications company is considered an end user when the carrier uses a telecommunications service…

Rule 20:10:29:08 Computation of access element charges -- General. 20:10:29:08. Computation of access element charges -- General. Charges for each access element are computed and assessed as provided in this chapter. Source: 19 SDR 111, effective January 31, 1993. General Authori…

Rule 20:10:29:09 End user common line. 20:10:29:09. End user common line. Charges for end user common line are not included in intrastate switched access service. Source: 19 SDR 111, effective January 31, 1993. General Authority:SDCL 49-1-11, 49-31-5, 49-31-18. Law Implemented:SD…

Rule 20:10:29:10 Carrier common line element -- Assessment of charge -- Determination of charge -- Equal originating and terminating charges. 20:10:29:10. Carrier common line element -- Assessment of charge -- Determination of charge -- Equal originating and terminating charges. …

Rule 20:10:29:11 Credit for interexchange carriers. 20:10:29:11. Credit for interexchange carriers. An interexchange carrier shall receive a credit for carrier common line charges to the extent that it resells services for which these charges have already been assessed, such as m…

Rule 20:10:29:12 Local switching element -- Assessment of charge -- Determination of charge -- Equal originating and terminating charges. 20:10:29:12. Local switching element -- Assessment of charge -- Determination of charge -- Equal originating and terminating charges. A charge…

Rule 20:10:29:13 Credit for end users and local exchange subscribers. 20:10:29:13. Credit for end users and local exchange subscribers. If end users of an intrastate service that uses local switching facilities pay message unit charges for such calls, a credit is deducted from th…

Rule 20:10:29:14 Equal access -- Assignment of revenue requirements. 20:10:29:14. Equal access -- Assignment of revenue requirements. Intrastate equal access revenue requirements which result when an exchange carrier converts a local exchange switch to provide feature group D ser…

Rule 20:10:29:15 Information costs. 20:10:29:15. Information costs. Costs associated with the information category are not used to develop rates pursuant to this chapter. Source: 19 SDR 111, effective January 31, 1993. General Authority:SDCL 49-1-11, 49-31-5, 49-31-18. Law Implem…

Rule 20:10:29:16 Transport element -- Assessment of charge -- Determination of charge -- Charge not distance sensitive -- Equal originating and terminating charges. 20:10:29:16. Transport element -- Assessment of charge -- Determination of charge -- Charge not distance sensitive …

Rule 20:10:29:16.01 Alternative assessment and determination of transport element charge. 20:10:29:16.01. Alternative assessment and determination of transport element charge. A carrier's carrier that offers tandem-switched transport and direct-trunked transport pursuant to 47 C.…

Rule 20:10:29:16.02 Entrance facilities charge -- Distance sensitive rates. 20:10:29:16.02. Entrance facilities charge -- Distance sensitive rates. A flat-rated entrance facilities charge expressed in dollars and cents per unit of capacity is assessed on all interexchange carrier…

Rule 20:10:29:16.03 Tandem-switched transport charge -- Tandem-switched transport transmission charge -- Tandem switching charge. 20:10:29:16.03. Tandem-switched transport charge -- Tandem-switched transport transmission charge -- Tandem switching charge. Tandem-switched transpor…

Rule 20:10:29:16.04 Direct-trunked transport charge -- Distance sensitive rates. 20:10:29:16.04. Direct-trunked transport charge -- Distance sensitive rates. A flat-rated direct-trunked transport charge expressed in dollars and cents per unit of capacity is assessed on all intere…

Rule 20:10:29:16.05 Interconnection charge. 20:10:29:16.05. Interconnection charge. An interconnection charge expressed in dollars and cents per access minute is assessed on all interexchange carriers and on all other persons interconnecting with the carrier's carrier's switched …

Rule 20:10:29:17 Special access category. 20:10:29:17. Special access category. Costs associated with the special access category are not used to develop rates pursuant to this chapter. Source: 19 SDR 111, effective January 31, 1993. General Authority:SDCL 49-1-11, 49-31-5, 49-31…

Rule 20:10:29:18 Apportionment of net investment -- General. 20:10:29:18. Apportionment of net investment -- General. For purposes of computing annual revenue requirements for access elements, net investment is apportioned among the interexchange category, the billing and collect…

Rule 20:10:29:19 Apportionment of net investment accounts. 20:10:29:19. Apportionment of net investment accounts. Net investment in accounts 2001, 1220, and class B rural telephone bank stock booked in account 1402 are apportioned among the interexchange category, billing and col…

Rule 20:10:29:20 Information origination/termination equipment -- Assignment of investment. 20:10:29:20. Information origination/termination equipment -- Assignment of investment. Investment in public telephones and appurtenances are not assigned to any of the switched access ele…

Rule 20:10:29:21 Subscriber line cable and wire facilities -- Assignment of investment. 20:10:29:21. Subscriber line cable and wire facilities -- Assignment of investment. Investment in local exchange subscriber lines is assigned to the common line element. Investment in intrasta…

Rule 20:10:29:22 Carrier cable and wire facilities -- Assignment to categories. 20:10:29:22. Carrier cable and wire facilities -- Assignment to categories. Carrier cable and wire facilities that are not used for origination or termination are assigned to the interexchange categor…

Rule 20:10:29:23 Central office equipment -- Exception to separations procedures. 20:10:29:23. Central office equipment -- Exception to separations procedures. The separations procedures categories are used for purposes of apportioning investment in central office equipment. Howe…

Rule 20:10:29:24 Assignment of central office equipment category 1 -- Operator systems equipment. 20:10:29:24. Assignment of central office equipment category 1 -- Operator systems equipment. Central office equipment category 1, operator systems equipment, is apportioned among th…

Rule 20:10:29:25 Assignment of central office equipment category 2 -- Tandem switching equipment. 20:10:29:25. Assignment of central office equipment category 2 -- Tandem switching equipment. Central office equipment category 2, tandem switching equipment, is assigned to the tran…

Rule 20:10:29:26 Assignment of central office equipment category 3 -- Local switching equipment. 20:10:29:26. Assignment of central office equipment category 3 -- Local switching equipment. Central office equipment category 3, local switching equipment, is assigned to the local s…

Rule 20:10:29:27 Assignment of central office equipment category 4 -- Circuit equipment. 20:10:29:27. Assignment of central office equipment category 4 -- Circuit equipment. Central office equipment category 4, circuit equipment, is apportioned among the interexchange and special…

Rule 20:10:29:28 General support facilities -- Apportionment of investment. 20:10:29:28. General support facilities -- Apportionment of investment. General support facilities investment is apportioned among the interexchange, information, billing and collection, and special acces…

Rule 20:10:29:29 Equal access equipment -- Assignment of investment. 20:10:29:29. Equal access equipment -- Assignment of investment. Equal access investment is assigned to the local switching element. Source: 19 SDR 111, effective January 31, 1993. General Authority:SDCL 49-1-11…

Rule 20:10:29:30 Apportionment of other investment. 20:10:29:30. Apportionment of other investment. Investment that is not apportioned pursuant to §§ 20:10:29:19 to 20:10:29:29, inclusive, is apportioned among the interexchange, billing and collection, and special access categori…

Rule 20:10:29:31 Assignment of capital leases in account 2680. 20:10:29:31. Assignment of capital leases in account 2680. Capital leases in account 2680 are directly assigned to the applicable interexchange category, special access category, or switched access elements consistent…

Rule 20:10:29:32 Apportionment of plant-specific operations expenses in accounts 6110 and 6120. 20:10:29:32. Apportionment of plant-specific operations expenses in accounts 6110 and 6120. Plant-specific operations expenses in accounts 6110 and 6120 are apportioned among the inter…

Rule 20:10:29:33 Apportionment of plant-specific operations expenses in accounts 6210, 6220, and 6230. 20:10:29:33. Apportionment of plant-specific operations expenses in accounts 6210, 6220, and 6230. Plant-specific operations expenses in accounts 6210, 6220, and 6230 are apport…