2015 Utah Code
Title 54 - Public Utilities
Chapter 8b - Public Telecommunications Law
Section 1.1 - Legislative policy declarations.

54-8b-1.1. Legislative policy declarations.
The Legislature declares it is the policy of the state to:

• (1) endeavor to achieve the universal service objectives of the state as set forth in Section 54-8b-11;

• (2) facilitate access to high quality, affordable public telecommunications services to all residents and businesses in the state;

• (3) encourage the development of competition as a means of providing wider customer choices for public telecommunications services throughout the state;

• (4) allow flexible and reduced regulation for telecommunications corporations and public telecommunications services as competition develops;

• (5) facilitate and promote the efficient development and deployment of an advanced telecommunications infrastructure, including networks with nondiscriminatory prices, terms, and conditions of interconnection;

• (6) encourage competition by facilitating the sale of essential telecommunications facilities and services on a reasonably unbundled basis;

• (7) seek to prevent prices for tariffed public telecommunications services or price-regulated services from subsidizing the competitive activities of regulated telecommunications corporations;

• (8) encourage new technologies and modify regulatory policy to allow greater competition in the telecommunications industry;

• (9) enhance the general welfare and encourage the growth of the economy of the state through increased competition in the telecommunications industry; and

• (10) endeavor to protect customers who do not have competitive choice.

Enacted by Chapter 269, 1995 General Session