1999 Minnesota Code
Chapters 237 - 238 Telecommunications
Chapter 237 Telephone, Telegraph, Telecommunications
Section 237.69 Telephone assistance plan; definitions.

237.69 Telephone assistance plan; definitions.

Subdivision 1. Scope. The terms used in sections 237.69 to 237.711 have the meanings given them in this section.

Subd. 2. Commission. "Commission" means the Minnesota public utilities commission.

Subd. 3. Department. "Department" means the Minnesota department of public service.

Subd. 4. Telephone company. "Telephone company" has the meanings given it in section 237.01, subdivisions 2 and 3, that provides local exchange telephone service.

Subd. 5. Access line. "Access line" means telephone company-owned facilities furnished to permit switched access to the telecommunications network that extend from a central office to the demarcation point on the property where the subscriber is served. The term includes access lines provided to residential and business subscribers, includes centrex access lines on a trunk-equivalent basis, but does not include private nonswitched or wide area telephone service access lines.

Subd. 6. Federal matching plan. "Federal matching plan" means any telephone assistance plan formulated by the Federal Communications Commission that provides federal assistance to local telephone subscribers.

Subd. 7. Telephone assistance plan. "Telephone assistance plan" means the plan to be adopted by the commission and to be jointly administered by the commission, the department of human services, and the telephone companies, as required by sections 237.69 to 237.711.

Subd. 8. Income. For purposes of sections 237.69 to 237.711, income has the meaning given it in section 290A.03, subdivision 3.

Subd. 9. Disabled. "Disabled" has the meaning given it in section 363.01, subdivision 13.

Subd. 10. Fund. "Fund" means the telephone assistance fund established in section 237.701.

HIST: 1987 c 340 s 13; 1988 c 621 s 9-11; 1989 c 209 art 2 s 1; 1990 c 567 s 10