Section 728.7 Of Article 2. Rates From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 1. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 2.
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. (a) Prior to authorizing any change in the amount of the
payment required of a telephone corporation which provides service
between service areas to a telephone corporation which provides
service within a service area for the use of its telephone lines, and
prior to assigning to subscribers of a telephone corporation
operating within a service area any charge, surcharge, or rate
increase that is a result of a decrease in the amount of that
payment, the commission shall do all of the following:
(1) Require the telephone corporation requesting authorization to
increase subscriber rates or to impose a charge or surcharge on
subscribers as a result of a change in the payments, to notify its
subscribers, whenever the commission commences a proceeding on its
own motion or in response to a petition to authorize a change in the
amount of those payments or to impose that charge, surcharge, or rate
increase as a result of a change in the amount of those payments.
(2) Require the telephone corporation to provide its subscribers
with an exact description of, and explanation for, the change in the
amount of the payment or the imposition of a charge, surcharge, or
rate increase, within 90 days of the authorized change in the amount
of payment or charge, surcharge, or rate increase. The description
and explanation shall include a reasonably accurate quantitative
assessment of the results of, and the reasons for, the change in the
amount of payment or imposition of a charge, surcharge, or rate
increase for each class of subscriber.
(b) The commission shall provide the Legislature with the
information required of a telephone corporation pursuant to paragraph
(2) of subdivision (a), for any change in payments, or imposition of
a charge, surcharge, or rate increase as a result of a change in
payment, made prior to January 1, 1987, within 60 days after that
date.