Michigan Laws 484.2320 – Payphone service; registration required; report of inoperative payphone; notification; rules or orders; regulation of service by local unit of government
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 484.2320
- Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
- Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Payphone service: means a telephone call provided from a public, semipublic, or individually owned and operated telephone that is available to the public and is accessed by the depositing of coin or currency or by other means of payment at the time the call is made. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
- Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, governmental entity, or any other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
- provider: means a person that for compensation provides 1 or more telecommunication services. See Michigan Laws 484.2102
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
(1) A person shall not provide payphone service in this state without first registering with the commission. The registration shall include all of the following information:
(a) The name of the provider.
(b) The address and telephone number of the provider’s principal office.
(c) If the provider is not located in this state, the address and telephone number of the registered office and the name and telephone number of the registered agent authorized to receive service of process in this state.
(d) The specific location of each payphone in this state owned or operated by the provider. Information required under this subdivision shall be made available to the local unit of government solely for the enforcement of the reporting, repairing, and replacement standards under subsection (8). The information required to be provided under this subsection is considered commercial information under section 210, and the information submitted is exempt from the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.
(2) The registration shall be accompanied by a registration fee of $100.00.
(3) The registration is effective immediately upon filing with the commission and the payment of the registration fee.
(4) The commission shall establish a toll-free number that can be dialed to report to the commission a payphone that is inoperative. The toll-free number shall be conspicuously displayed by the provider on or near each payphone.
(5) If the commission receives a report under subsection (4), it shall immediately notify the provider of the inoperative payphone.
(6) After consulting with providers of payphone service, local units of government, and other interested parties, the commission shall promulgate rules or issue orders under section 213 to establish and enforce quality standards in the providing of payphone service.
(7) Except as provided in subsection (8), a local unit of government shall not regulate payphone service.
(8) A local unit of government may enforce the reporting, repairing, and replacement of inoperative payphones within its jurisdiction by adopting an ordinance that conforms to the standards established by the commission under subsection (6). A local unit of government shall not impose standards greater than those established by the commission.