Minnesota Statutes Telecommunications (Ch. 237, 238) § 237.69. Telephone assistance plan; definitions

Subdivision 1. Scope. The terms used insections 237.69to237.71have the meanings given them in this section.

Subd. 2. Renumbered subd. 11 in St.2002.

Subd. 3. Repealed byLaws 2001, 1st Sp., c. 4, art. 6, § 76, eff. July 1, 2001

Subd. 4. Renumbered subd. 17 in St.2002.

Subd. 5. Access line. “Access line” means telephone company-owned facilities furnished to permit switched access to the telecommunications network that extend from a central office to the demarcation point on the property where the subscriber is served. The term includes access lines provided to residential and business subscribers, includes centrex access lines on a trunk-equivalent basis, but does not include private nonswitched or wide area telephone service access lines.

Subd. 6. Renumbered subd. 13 in St.2002.

Subd. 7. Renumbered subd. 16 in St.2002.

Subd. 8. Renumbered subd. 15 in St.2002.

Subd. 9. Renumbered subd. 12 in St.2002.

Subd. 10. Renumbered subd. 14 in St.2002.

Subd. 11. Commission. “Commission” means the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.

Subd. 12. Disabled. “Disabled” has the meaning given it insection 363A.03, subdivision 12.

Subd. 13. Federal matching plan.“Federal matching plan” means any telephone assistance plan formulated by the Federal Communications Commission that provides federal assistance to local telephone subscribers.

Subd. 14. Fund.“Fund” means the telephone assistance fund established insection 237.701.

Subd. 15. Income. For purposes ofsections 237.69to237.71, “income” has the meaning given it insection 290A.03, subdivision 3.

Subd. 16. Telephone assistance plan. “Telephone assistance plan” means the plan to be adopted by the commission and to be jointly administered by the commission, the Department of Human Services, and the telephone companies, as required bysections 237.69to237.71.

Subd. 17. Telephone company. “Telephone company” has the meanings given it insection 237.01, subdivisions 3and7, that provides local exchange telephone service.