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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 301

a measured time period unit rate for local messages;

and providing that this does not preclude the

Commission from any study or evaluation of mandatory
telephone company charges providing that the Commission
shall study certain mandatory charges by a certain
date; and altering a certain date.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

Section 68(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

(e) [1] The Commission may not authorize any mandatory
telephone company charges based on a measured time period

unit rate for local messages. HOWEVER, THIS DOES NOT

PRECLUDE THE COMMISSION FROM ANY STUDY OR EVALUATION OF SUCH
MANDATORY TELEPHONE COMPANY CHARGES [except as provided in
paragraph (2) of this subsection.

68.

(c) (1) The Commission may not authorize telephone
company charges based on a measured time period unit rate
for local messages, except as provided in paragraph (2) of
this subsection. HOWEVER, THE COMMISSION SHALL STUDY SUCH
MANDATORY TELEPHONE CHARGES FOR COMPUTER DATA TRANSMISSIONS
AND REPORT BACK TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY JANUARY 1, 1982.

(2) After June 30, 1981 1982, for computer data
transmissions, the Commission may authorize mandatory
telephone company charges based on a cost-justified measured
time period unit rate for local messages].

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 12, 1981.

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(Senate Bill 639)