2021 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 26 - Miscellaneous
399-Z-1 - Telecommunication Companies Blocking Certain Numbers.

* §  399-z-1. Telecommunication companies blocking certain numbers. 1.
As used in this section, the following terms shall  have  the  following
meanings:
  a. "caller identification information" means information provided by a
caller  identification  service  regarding  the telephone number and the
name of the person calling;
  b. "caller identification service"  means  a  service  that  allows  a
telephone subscriber to have the telephone number, and, where available,
name  of  the  calling  party  transmitted  contemporaneously  with  the
telephone call, and displayed  on  a  device  in  or  connected  to  the
subscriber's telephone;
  c.   "pooling   administrator"   means   the  thousands-block  pooling
administrator as identified in 47 C.F.R. § 52.20; and
  d. "provider" means a telecommunication company  that  provides  voice
communications services to customers in this state.
  2.  Consistent with authorization provided by federal law and rules of
the federal communications commission or its successors:
  a. providers shall block a voice call when the subscriber to which the
originating number is assigned has requested that  calls  purporting  to
originate  from  that  number  be blocked because the number is used for
inbound calls only; and
  b. providers shall block calls originating from the following numbers:
  (i) a number that is not a valid North American numbering plan number;
  (ii) a  valid  North  American  numbering  plan  number  that  is  not
allocated   to   a   provider  by  the  North  American  numbering  plan
administrator or the pooling administrator; and
  (iii) a valid North American numbering plan number that  is  allocated
to a provider by the North American number plan administrator or pooling
administrator, but is unused, so long as the provider blocking the calls
is the allocatee of the number and confirms that the number is unused or
has  obtained  verification from the allocatee that the number is unused
at the time of the blocking.
  c. providers shall not block a voice call if the call is an  emergency
call placed to 911.
  d.  providers  shall  not  block  a voice call to a subscriber who has
requested that no inbound calls be blocked.
  3. For purposes of blocking calls from certain originating numbers  as
authorized in this section, a provider may rely on caller identification
service information to determine the originating number.
  4.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or regulation, a
voice service provider shall be considered to be in compliance with this
section and any rule or regulation adopted thereunder if  such  provider
has  filed  a  certification  with the federal communications commission
that the provider's traffic is either signed with STIR/SHAKEN or subject
to a compliant robocall mitigation program. A copy of such certification
shall be made available to the attorney general or  the  public  service
commission, upon request.
  * NB There are 2 § 399-z-1's