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741.2
. (a) No nonpublic utility provider of telephone services,
including, but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, university,
or similar place of temporary accommodation owning or operating
message switching or billing equipment solely for the purpose of
reselling services provided by a telephone corporation to its
patients or guests is required to file or maintain tariff schedules.
(b) No such nonpublic utility provider of telephone services which
provides service to hospital patients may charge more for any
nontoll telephone call than the maximum rate of charge authorized by
the commission for a nontoll call placed from a coin-activated
telephone owned or operated by other than a telephone corporation
plus twenty-five cents ($0.25).
(c) No such nonpublic utility provider of telephone services which
provides service to hospital patients may charge more for any toll
telephone call than the sum of all of the following:
(1) The applicable tariff rate or charge of the telephone
corporation whose service is resold for that telephone call.
(2) The surcharge or surcharges, if any, applicable to that call
if placed from a coin-activated telephone owned or operated by the
telephone corporation within whose service area the nonpublic utility
provider of telephone services is located, unless that surcharge is
included in the tariff rate or charge for that call.
(3) Twenty-five cents ($0.25).
(d) No such nonpublic utility provider of telephone services may
make any charge for any uncompleted telephone call unless notice
pursuant to subdivision (e) is provided specifying the circumstances
under which a charge will be made for an uncompleted call.
(e) Every nonpublic utility provider of telephone services shall
display or post on or near the telephone equipment so as to be easily
seen by telephone users a notice of all of the following:
(1) The charges applicable to all of the available telephone
services. These charges shall be separately stated, and shall
include, but not be limited to, the following information:
(A) Individual customer telephone service activation deposits or
fees, if any.
(B) Charges for use of telephone services, irrespective of whether
a call is completed.
(2) That these charges are consistent with this section, if
applicable.
(3) The telephone number of the Consumer Affairs Division of the
commission to which questions or complaints may be directed.
(f) Subdivision (e) does not require separate notices for multiple
or extension telephones having the same telephone extension number.
(g) This section does not require any such nonpublic utility
provider of telephone services to make any charge for the furnishing
of any telephone service, and this section does not apply to any such
provider that makes no charge for telephone services furnished. This
section does not constitute any such provider a telephone
corporation or otherwise subject it to regulation by the commission
as a public utility.