PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 686

(3)] The Commission may not authorize telephone company charges to be
levied for directory assistance upon any person who suffers from a physical or visual
handicap that precludes the use of a telephone directory.

[(4)] (3) The Commission may provide other exemptions FROM
TELEPHONE COMPANY CHARGES TO BE LEVIED FOR DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE that
are just and reasonable.

(c) (1) The Commission may not authorize any mandatory telephone company
charges based on a 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.

(3)     If the Commission authorizes any telephone company to offer to
residential customers the option of telephone charges based on a measured time period
unit rate for local messages, the Commission shall also require the telephone company to
offer to residential customers:

(i) The option of an unlimited number and duration of local calls; and

(ii) The option of a specific charge per local call, regardless of the
duration of the local call.

(4)     Until December 1, 1985 a telephone company may not require the
payment of an order processing charge or line change charge for a residential customer's
first change to any type of local telephone service based on charges per call or measured
time period unit rates.

(5)     A telephone company may not require the payment of an order
processing charge or line change charge for a residential customer's first change from
local telephone service based on charges for measured time period unit rates, if the
change occurs within 18 months of the date that the consumer elects this telephone
service.

(6)     The Public Service Commission may not authorize any telephone
company to charge for the distance of a call within any local calling area.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved May 23, 1996.

CHAPTER 686
(House Bill 711)

AN ACT concerning

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority - Changes in Fares, Rates, or

Services - Public Hearings

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