Missouri Revised Statutes Title XII. Public Health and Welfare § 209.257. Telephone company to deduct percentage to cover cost--percentage determined by PSC--money collected, deposit--use of deaf relay service fund

The local exchange telephone company shall deduct and retain a percentage of the total surcharge amount collected each month to recover the billing, collecting, remitting and administrative costs attributed to the deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund surcharge. The commission shall determine the appropriate percentage to be deducted and retained and shall include this percentage as part of its order establishing the deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund surcharge. All remaining deaf relay service and equipment distribution program fund surcharge money collected by local exchange telephone companies shall be remitted to the commission, who shall use such money exclusively to fund the programs provided for in section 209.253.