FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain telecommunications service providers from
transferring a customer's account to another telecommunications service
provider unless certain information is obtained from the customer by the
telecommunications service provider to whom the customer's account is to be
transferred telephone companies or resellers from changing, on behalf of a
customer, the customer's telephone company or reseller or telecommunications
service options unless the telephone company or reseller complies with certain
authorization and confirmation procedures; requiring toll resellers to register
each year on a certain form with the Public Service Commission; providing
certain penalties providing for the application of this Act; imposing certain
liabilities on a telephone company or reseller that initiates an unauthorized
change in a customer's telephone company or reseller that provides toll services
or a customer's telecommunications service options; requiring a telephone
company or reseller to provide in a certain manner a certain notice to a customer
informing the customer that certain changes have been made to the customer's
telephone company or reseller or telecommunications service options under
certain circumstances; authorizing the Commission to take certain actions
against a telephone company or reseller for certain violations; authorizing the
Commission to adopt certain regulations; authorizing the Commission to assess
a certain administrative penalty on a telephone company or reseller that
violates this Act under certain circumstances; defining certain terms; and
generally relating to changes in telecommunications service providers services.

FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain telephone companies and resellers from taking
certain actions on behalf of a customer concerning the customer's selection of a
telephone company or reseller, telecommunications service options, or the person
who bills the customer or the customer's billing arrangement except in
compliance with certain procedures; requiring certain notice to be provided to a
telephone service customer under certain circumstances; requiring resellers to
obtain a certain authorization from the Public Service Commission; imposing
certain liabilities on a telephone company or reseller who initiates an
unauthorized change in a customer's telephone company, reseller, or
telecommunications service options or who initiates an unauthorized change in
the person who bills the customer or the customer's billing arrangement;
requiring certain telephone companies and resellers to offer a hold order or freeze
to certain customers under certain circumstances; authorizing the Public Service
Commission to adopt certain regulations; providing for a certain administrative
penalty for certain violations; defining certain terms; and generally relating to
changes in telecommunications service,

BY adding to

Article - Public Utility Companies

Section 8-401 through 8-404 8-410 8-409, inclusive, to be under the new
subtitle "Subtitle 4. Change in Telecommunications Service Provider
Services Service Changes"

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Volume)