HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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FOR the purpose of prohibiting the Public Service Commission
from authorizing any mandatory telephone company
charges based on a measured time period unit rate for
local messages; providing that this Act does not
preclude the Commission from any study or evaluation of
mandatory telephone company charges; repealing certain
obsolete provisions; and correcting an error.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

Section 68(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

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

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

68.

(c) (1) The Commission may not authorize ANY MANDATORY
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, 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].

(2) PARAGRAPH (1) OF THIS SUBSECTION DOES NOT
PRECLUDE THE COMMISSION FROM ANY STUDY OR EVALUATION OF
MANDATORY TELEPHONE COMPANY CHARGES.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 549
(Senate Bill 753)
AN ACT concerning