CHAPTER 153

H.P. 574 - L.D. 775

An Act To Clarify That All Companies Offering Telephone

Services for Compensation, Including Switchless Resellers,

Are Telephone Utilities

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §102, sub-§19, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6, is amended to read:

19. Telephone utility. "Telephone utility" includes every person, its lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court, owning, controlling, operating or managing any that provides telephone line service for compensation within inside this State. "Telephone utility" does not include any person or entity that is excluded from the definition of "public utility" as defined in subsection 13, subject to the provisions of subsection 13, paragraphs A to C.

Sec. 2. 35-A MRSA §102, sub-§18-A is enacted to read:

18-A.__Telephone service.__"Telephone service" is the offering of a service that transmits communications by telephone, whether the communications are accomplished with or without the use of transmission wires.

Sec. 3. 35-A MRSA §102, sub-§20, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6, is repealed.