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2022 New York Laws
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Article 5 - Provisions Relating to Telegraph and Telephone Lines and to Telephone and Telegraph Corporations
92-A - Special Telephone Equipment for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons.

Universal Citation: NY Pub Serv L § 92-A (2022)
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* §  92-a.  Special  telephone  equipment for deaf and hard of hearing
persons.  1.  The  commission  shall  require  any  regulated   landline
telephone  corporation providing local exchange service to sell or lease
special telecommunication equipment to a person  certified  as  deaf  or
hard  of  hearing  where  the addition of such equipment is necessary to
enable such person to access and utilize the local exchange network. The
sale of such equipment shall be at an amount not to  exceed  the  actual
purchase  price by the corporation and the lease of such equipment shall
be at a rate to be determined by the commission. Any person  who  leases
such equipment shall be permitted to apply the lease payments toward the
equipment's purchase.
  2.  The  commission  shall authorize the establishment of the New York
telecommunications relay service center. In  developing  a  request  for
proposals  to  provide  telecommunications  relay service the commission
shall include the following minimum provisions:
  (a) The New York telecommunications  relay  service  center  shall  be
located within the municipality of Syracuse, New York;
  (b)   A   minimum   of   eighty   percent   of   all  calls  utilizing
telecommunications relay service must be routed to and through  the  New
York telecommunications relay service center; and
  (c)  A  contract  to provide telecommunications relay service shall be
renewable for up to five years, and the commission shall be empowered to
promulgate and adopt all regulations required to implement the terms  of
this subdivision.
  * NB Effective until June 30, 2024
  * § 92-a. Special  telephone  equipment  for  deaf and hard of hearing
persons. The commission shall require any regulated  landline  telephone
corporation  providing  local  exchange service to sell or lease special
telecommunication equipment to a person certified as  deaf  or  hard  of
hearing where the addition of such equipment is necessary to enable such
person  to  access  and  utilize the local exchange network. The sale of
such equipment shall be at an amount not to exceed the  actual  purchase
price  by  the corporation and the lease of such equipment shall be at a
rate to be determined by the commission.  Any  person  who  leases  such
equipment  shall  be  permitted  to  apply the lease payments toward the
equipment's purchase.
  * NB Effective June 30, 2024
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