392.520. Private shared tenant services, coin operated telephone services, regulation of. - Missouri Statutes

Private shared tenant services, coin operated telephone services,regulation of.

392.520. 1. The commission shall have jurisdiction over theprovision of private shared tenant services and customer-owned cointelephone telecommunications services, but shall subject such services tothe minimum regulation permitted by this chapter for competitivetelecommunications services. The commission shall exempt the provision ofprivate shared and customer-owned coin telephone telecommunicationsservices from the tariff filing requirements of sections 392.220, 392.230,and 392.500 and may exempt the provision of such telecommunicationsservices from the provisions of subdivisions (1) and (3) of section 392.390and from the provisions of section 386.370, RSMo.

2. The commission shall establish the rates or charges and terms ofconnection for access by such services to the local exchange network. Inso doing, the commission shall consider the network integrity of theprincipal provider of local exchange service and the impact of privateshared tenant services on the cost to provide, and rates or charges, forlocal exchange service. If the commission finds, upon notice andinvestigation, that tenants in private shared tenant services locationshave no alternative access to a local exchange telecommunications companyproviding basic local telecommunications service, it may require theprivate shared tenant services provider to make alternative facilitiesavailable on reasonable terms and conditions at reasonable prices.

(L. 1987 H.B. 360, A.L. 2008 H.B. 1779)