New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES
Chapter 11 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Part 5 - REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR LOCAL EXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO
Section 17.11.5.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. Act means the New Mexico Telecommunications Act, NMSA 1978, 63-9A-1 et seq.

B. Certificate of operating authority means a certificate issued by the commission for the provision of local exchange telecommunications services within the State of New Mexico.

C. Certificate of financial and technical competency means a certification that an applicant is capable of providing service.

D. Commission means the New Mexico State Corporation Commission.

E. LEC means any person or entity that provides local exchange services.

F. Local exchange service means the transmission of public two-way switched communications furnished by a telecommunications company within a local exchange area, i.e., a geographic area encompassing one or more local communities, as described in maps, tariffs, or rate schedules filed with the commission, where local exchange rates apply.

G. 911 services means a basic or enhanced 911 system, as that term is defined in the Enhanced 911 Act, NMSA 1978, 63-9D-1 et seq., which consists of a telephone service that automatically connects a person dialing the single three-digit number 911 to an established public safety answering point through normal telephone service facilities.

H. 1996 Act means the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. 151, et seq.

I. Notice of proposed agency action means a legally sufficient notification of action proposed to be taken by the commission.

J. Universal service means the definition of that term and associated principles of universal service as contained in the 1996 Act and as further defined in any rules and regulations promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to the 1996 Act and by the commission.