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Dual party relay services for deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired persons: surcharge and payment duties of local exchange companies
Ind. Code ch. 8-1-2.8, ss. 8-1-2.8-11, 8-1-2.8-14, 8-1-2.8-15 and 8-1-2.8-17
In force.
An accessibility requirements rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Governance
What it requires
- If you are a local exchange company, impose the monthly surcharge on each residential and business line (or line equivalent) of your customers that the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission requires to fund and recover the costs of dual party relay services for deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired persons (Ind. Code 8-1-2.8-11).
- Collect the surcharge on the regular monthly bill you send to each customer (Ind. Code 8-1-2.8-14).
- Account separately for all costs you incur in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements to provide services to deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired persons (Ind. Code 8-1-2.8-15).
- Pay the amount you collect for the surcharge to the Indiana Telephone Relay Access Corporation for the Hearing and Speech Impaired, on the terms and in the manner the chapter provides (Ind. Code 8-1-2.8-17).
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What this law does
Chapter 2.8 of article 1 of title 8 of the Indiana Code defines dual party relay services as telecommunications transmission services that let a person with a hearing impairment or speech impairment communicate with a hearing person in a manner functionally equivalent to the way a person without the impairment communicates. Section 2 defines the commission as the Indiana utility regulatory commission.
Section 11 directs the commission to require each local exchange company to impose a monthly surcharge on each residential and business line of its customers to fund and recover the costs of dual party relay services. Section 14 provides that the surcharge is collected on the regular monthly bill that the local exchange company sends to each customer.
Section 15 requires a local exchange company to account separately for all costs it incurs in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements to provide services to deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired persons. Section 17 requires a local exchange company that collects the surcharge to pay the amount collected to the Indiana Telephone Relay Access Corporation for the Hearing and Speech Impaired.
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