Tex. Util. Code § 56.104 · Subchapter D. STATEWIDE TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE CHARGES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) For a call made using the telecommunications relay access service, the person calling or called:
(1) may not be charged for a call that originates and terminates in the same local calling area; and
(2) shall pay one-half of the total charges established by contract with the commission for intrastate interexchange calls.
(b) Charges related to providing the service that, under Subsection (a), are not charged to a person calling or called shall be funded from the universal service fund, as specified by the service provider's contract with the commission.
(c) A local exchange company may not impose an interexchange carrier access charge on a call using the service that originates and terminates in the same local calling area.
(d) A local exchange company shall provide billing and collection services for the service at just and reasonable rates.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.56.htm
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