Goto Section: 63.53 | 63.61 | Table of Contents
FCC 63.60
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 63.60 Definitions.
For the purposes of this part, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) Discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of service includes, but is not
limited to the following:
(1) The closure by a carrier of a telephone exchange rendering interstate or
foreign telephone toll service, a public toll station serving a community or
part of a community, or a public coast station as defined in Sec. 80.5 of this
chapter;
(2) The reduction in hours of service by a carrier at a telephone exchange
rendering interstate or foreign telephone toll service, at any public toll
station (except at a toll station at which the availability of service to
the public during any specific hours is subject to the control of the agent
or other persons controlling the premises on which such office or toll
station is located and is not subject to the control of such carrier), or at
a public coast station; the term reduction in hours of service does not
include a shift in hours which does not result in any reduction in the
number of hours of service.
(3) [Reserved]
(4) The dismantling or removal from service of any trunk line by a carrier
which has the effect of impairing the adequacy or quality of service
rendered to any community or part of a community;
(5) The severance by a carrier of physical connection with another carrier
(including connecting carriers as defined in section 3(u) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended) or the termination or suspension of
the interchange of traffic with such other carrier;
(b) Emergency discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of service means any
discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of the service of a carrier
occasioned by conditions beyond the control of such carrier where the
original service is not restored or comparable service is not established
within a reasonable time. For the purpose of this part, a reasonable time
shall be deemed to be a period not in excess of the following: 10 days in
the case of discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of service at telegraph
offices operated directly by the carrier; 15 days in the case of
jointly-operated or agency telegraph offices; 10 days in the case of public
coast stations; and 60 days in all other cases;
(c) Public toll station means a public telephone station, located in a
community, through which a carrier provides service to the public, and which
is connected directly to a toll line operated by such carrier.
(d) You. In this section, “You” refers to applicants and licensees.
[ 28 FR 13229 , Dec. 5, 1963, as amended at 45 FR 6585 , Jan. 29, 1980; 51 FR 31305 , Sept. 2, 1986; 69 FR 29902 , May 26, 2004]
Goto Section: 63.53 | 63.61
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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