2006 Code of Virginia § 56-484.4 - (Repealed effective January 1, 2007) Definitions
56-484.4. (Repealed effective January 1, 2007) Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires, the term:
"Department" means the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing.
"Operation" means those functions reasonably and directly necessary for theprovision of telecommunications relay service, including contract procurementand administration, and public education and information regarding suchservice.
"Telecommunications relay service" means a facility whereby a person whohas a hearing or speech disability using a text telephone and a person usinga conventional telephone device can communicate with each other via telephone.
"Telephone company" means a certificated local exchange telephone company,or any county, city or town that has obtained a certificate pursuant to 56-265.4:4, which owns, manages, or controls any plant or equipment or anypart of a plant or equipment within the Commonwealth for the conveyance oftelephone messages, either directly or indirectly.
"Voice carry over" means technology that will enable a deaf orhard-of-hearing person with good speech to use his voice, instead of the texttelephone, to communicate back to the hearing person.
(1990, c. 465; 1992, c. 549; 1996, c. 68; 2002, cc. 479, 489.)
Repealed by Acts 2006, c. 780, cl. 2, effective January 1, 2007. Forexpiration of repeal, see Editor's notes.
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