Arizona Administrative Code
Title 14 - PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES REGULATION
Chapter 2 - CORPORATION COMMISSION - FIXED UTILITIES
Article 9 - CUSTOMER-OWNED PAY TELEPHONES
Section R14-2-901 - Definitions

Universal Citation: AZ Admin Code R 14-2-901
Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 38, September 20, 2024

In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Affiliate" means any other entity directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with, a customer of record. For purposes of this subsection, the term "control, (including the correlative meanings of the terms "controlled by" and "under common control with"), as used with respect to any entity, means the power to direct the management policies of such entity, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.

2. "Customer of record" means a premises owner or vendor, who has either applied to, or who has obtained from, an LEC an access line to be a COPT provider.

3. "Customer-owned pay telephone (COPT) provider" means an entity authorized by the Commission to provide public pay telephone service to end-users and which is not a certificated LEC on the effective date of this Article. For purposes of compliance with Article 5 of this Chapter, "COPT provider" does not mean a "utility" as defined in R14-2-501(24).

4. "`800' service" means calls to telephone numbers which normally can be reached without charge to the calling party by dialing 1-800 plus 7 digits.

5. "Entity" means a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, joint venture, trust, estate, or natural person.

6. "Local exchange company (LEC)" means a company which is certificated to operate the local public switched telecommunications network.

7. "Public access line (PAL)" means any LEC tariff under which COPT providers are authorized to obtain access to the local and interexchange telecommunications network.

The following Section was amended under an exemption from the Attorney General approval provisions of the Arizona Administrative Procedure Act (State ex. rel. Corbin v. Arizona Corporation Commission, 174 Ariz. 216 848 P.2d 301 (App. 1992)), as determined by the Corporation Commission. This exemption means that the rules as amended were not approved by the Attorney General.

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