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. (a) The commission shall, by rule or order, adopt and enforce
operating requirements for telephones available for public use that
accept any form of payment and that are owned or operated by
corporations or persons other than telephone corporations. These
requirements shall include, but are not limited to, all of the
following:
(1) A requirement that the telephone corporation furnishing
service to the corporation or person owning or operating a telephone
that accepts any form of payment terminate service for any violation
of the commission's rules or orders or of this section, upon a
determination by the commission that the violation was a significant
or repeated violation. Any determination by the commission leading to
a termination of service shall be made in accordance with commission
rules or orders adopted pursuant to this subdivision.
(2) A requirement that every telephone permit a caller to be
connected with the operator personnel of any telephone corporation
authorized by the commission to operate within a service area by
dialing the numeral "0" and with the emergency services switchboard
reached by dialing the numerals "911" without insertion of any coin
or without any other form of payment.
(3) A requirement that every telephone contain instructions for
both local and long distance dialing, the name of the owner or
operator of the telephone, and the telephone number of that owner or
operator to which complaints can be made.
(4) A requirement that every telephone display its telephone
number or other identification number, as determined by the
commission, and the address at which the telephone is located, on the
telephone in a place where that information may be seen by a person
using the telephone.
(b) The commission shall require every telephone corporation that
publishes a directory of subscribers to include in that directory
information comprising the substance of this section and the rules
and orders of the commission adopted pursuant to this section.
(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2015.