§ 54-8b-1 Title
§ 54-8b-1.1 Legislative policy declarations
§ 54-8b-2 Definitions
§ 54-8b-2.1 Competitive entry
§ 54-8b-2.2 Interconnection
§ 54-8b-2.3 Pricing flexibility
§ 54-8b-3 Exemptions from requirements
§ 54-8b-3.3 Services that must be offered on a nondiscriminatory basis — Public telecommunications to be cost-based — Packaged services — Quality of service standards
§ 54-8b-3.4 Exemption from merger and acquisition approval by commission
§ 54-8b-4.5 Commission order — Negotiated provisions of services — Contracts under this section
§ 54-8b-6 Prohibition on subsidization of telecommunications services
§ 54-8b-7 Continuous jurisdiction of commission — Orders
§ 54-8b-8 Antitrust and restraint of trade laws not affected by chapter
§ 54-8b-9 Commission’s jurisdiction under other provisions of title not enlarged or reduced by chapter
§ 54-8b-10 Imposing a surcharge to provide deaf, hard of hearing, and speech impaired individuals with telecommunication devices — Definitions — Procedures for establishing program — Surcharge — Administration and disposition of surcharge money
§ 54-8b-11 Establishing just and reasonable rates
§ 54-8b-13 Rules governing operator assisted services
§ 54-8b-14 Intrastate interexchange toll service prices
§ 54-8b-15 Universal Public Telecommunications Service Support Fund — Commission duties — Charges — Lifeline program
§ 54-8b-16 Public Service Commission authority to enforce interconnection service quality standards and interconnection agreements — Grounds for filing complaint
§ 54-8b-17 Procedures for enforcement of interconnection service quality — Penalties for violation — Funds collected
§ 54-8b-18 Definitions — Unauthorized change of telecommunications provider — Unauthorized charges — Procedures for verification — Penalties — Authority of commission

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 54 > Chapter 8b - Public Telecommunications Law

  • Access line: means a circuit-switched connection, or the functional equivalent of a circuit-switched connection, from an end-user to the public switched network. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Activities of daily living: means essential activities including:
    (a) dressing;
    (b) eating;
    (c) grooming;
    (d) bathing;
    (e) toileting;
    (f) ambulation;
    (g) transferring; and
    (h) self-administration of medication. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Aggregator: means any person or entity that:
    (i) is not a telecommunications corporation;
    (ii) in the ordinary course of its business makes operator assisted services available to the public or to customers and transient users of its business or property through an operator service provider; and
    (iii) receives from an operator service provider by contract, tariff, or otherwise, commissions or compensation for calls delivered from the aggregator's location to the operator service provider. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assisted living facility: means :
    (i) a type I assisted living facility, which is a residential facility that provides assistance with activities of daily living and social care to two or more residents who:
    (A) require protected living arrangements; and
    (B) are capable of achieving mobility sufficient to exit the facility without the assistance of another person; and
    (ii) a type II assisted living facility, which is a residential facility with a home-like setting that provides an array of coordinated supportive personal and health care services available 24 hours per day to residents who have been assessed under department rule to need any of these services. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Assisted living facility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-2-201. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Basic residential service: means a local exchange service for a residential customer consisting of:
    (a) a single line with access to the public switched network;
    (b) touch-tone or the functional equivalent;
    (c) local flat-rate unlimited usage, exclusive of extended area service;
    (d) single-party service;
    (e) a free phone number listing in directories received for free;
    (f) access to operator services;
    (g) access to directory assistance;
    (h) access to lifeline and telephone relay assistance;
    (i) access to 911 and E911 emergency services;
    (j) access to long-distance carriers;
    (k) access to toll limitations services;
    (l) other services as may be determined by the commission; and
    (m) no feature. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Birthing center: means a facility that:
    (a) receives maternal clients and provides care during pregnancy, delivery, and immediately after delivery; and
    (b) 
    (i) is freestanding; or
    (ii) is not freestanding, but meets the requirements for an alongside midwifery unit described in Subsection 26B-2-228(7). See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Certificate: means a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the commission authorizing a telecommunications corporation to provide specified public telecommunications services within a defined geographic service territory in the state. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Committee: means the Health Facility Committee created in Section 26B-1-204. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Consumer: means any person not primarily engaged in the provision of health care to individuals or in the administration of facilities or institutions in which such care is provided and who does not hold a fiduciary position, or have a fiduciary interest in any entity involved in the provision of health care, and does not receive, either directly or through his spouse, more than 1/10 of his gross income from any entity or activity relating to health care. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: includes an association and a joint stock company having any powers or privileges not possessed by individuals or partnerships. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Division: means the Division of Customer Experience. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Division: means the Division of Public Utilities established in Section 54-4a-1. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • End stage renal disease facility: means a facility which furnishes staff-assisted kidney dialysis services, self-dialysis services, or home-dialysis services on an outpatient basis. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Feature: means a custom calling service available from the central office switch, including call waiting, call forwarding, three-way calling, and similar services. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Federal Telecommunications Act: means the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Freestanding: means existing independently or physically separated from another health care facility by fire walls and doors and administrated by separate staff with separate records. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • General acute hospital: means a facility which provides diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative services to both inpatients and outpatients by or under the supervision of physicians. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Government agency: means any department, division, office, bureau, board, commission, authority, or any other agency or instrumentality created by the state, or to which the state is a party, or created by any county or municipality, which is responsible for the regulation, visitation, inspection, or supervision of facilities, or which provides services to patients, residents, or clients of facilities. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Health care facility: means general acute hospitals, specialty hospitals, home health agencies, hospices, nursing care facilities, residential-assisted living facilities, birthing centers, ambulatory surgical facilities, small health care facilities, abortion clinics, a clinic that meets the definition of hospital under Section 76-7-301 or 76-71-201, facilities owned or operated by health maintenance organizations, end stage renal disease facilities, and any other health care facility which the committee designates by rule. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Home health agency: means an agency, organization, or facility or a subdivision of an agency, organization, or facility which employs two or more direct care staff persons who provide licensed nursing services, therapeutic services of physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, medical social services, or home health aide services on a visiting basis. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Hospice: means a program of care for the terminally ill and their families which occurs in a home or in a health care facility and which provides medical, palliative, psychological, spiritual, and supportive care and treatment. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Incumbent telephone corporation: means a telephone corporation, its successors or assigns, which, as of May 1, 1995, held a certificate to provide local exchange services in a defined geographic service territory in the state. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Intellectual disability: means a significant, subaverage general intellectual functioning that:Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Intermediate care facility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 58-15-101. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Local exchange service: means the provision of telephone lines to customers with the associated transmission of two-way interactive, switched voice communication within the geographic area encompassing one or more local communities as described in maps, tariffs, or rate schedules filed with and approved by the commission. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • long-run: means a period of time long enough so that cost estimates are based on the assumption that all inputs are variable. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Long-term care facility: means :
    (i) a skilled nursing facility;
    (ii) except as provided in Subsection (6)(b), an intermediate care facility;
    (iii) a nursing home;
    (iv) a small health care facility;
    (v) a small health care facility type N; or
    (vi) an assisted living facility. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Mobile telecommunications service: means a mobile telecommunications service:
    (a) that is defined as a mobile telecommunications service in the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, 4 U. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • New public telecommunications service: means a service offered by a telecommunications corporation which that corporation has never offered before. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Nursing care facility: means a health care facility, other than a general acute or specialty hospital, constructed, licensed, and operated to provide patient living accommodations, 24-hour staff availability, and at least two of the following patient services:
    (a) a selection of patient care services, under the direction and supervision of a registered nurse, ranging from continuous medical, skilled nursing, psychological, or other professional therapies to intermittent health-related or paraprofessional personal care services;
    (b) a structured, supportive social living environment based on a professionally designed and supervised treatment plan, oriented to the individual's habilitation or rehabilitation needs; or
    (c) a supervised living environment that provides support, training, or assistance with individual activities of daily living. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Ombudsman: means the administrator of the long-term care ombudsman program, created pursuant to Section 26B-2-303. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Ombudsman program: means the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Operator assisted services: means services which assist callers in the placement or charging of a telephone call, either through live intervention or automated intervention. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Operator service provider: means any person or entity that provides, for a fee to a caller, operator assisted services. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, and the legal successor thereof. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Public switched network: means the same as that term is defined in 47 C. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Public telecommunications service: means the two-way transmission of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, messages, data, or other information of any nature by wire, radio, lightwaves, or other electromagnetic means offered to the public generally. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Resident: means a person 21 years old or older who:
    (a) as a result of physical or mental limitations or age requires or requests services provided in an assisted living facility; and
    (b) does not require intensive medical or nursing services as provided in a hospital or nursing care facility. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Resident: means an individual who resides in a long-term care facility. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Skilled nursing facility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 58-15-101. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Small health care facility: means a four to 16 bed facility that provides licensed health care programs and services to residents. See Utah Code 26B-2-201
  • Small health care facility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-2-201. See Utah Code 26B-2-301
  • Telecommunications corporation: means any corporation or person, and their lessees, trustees, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court, owning, controlling, operating, managing, or reselling a public telecommunications service. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Telephone corporation: means any corporation or person, and their lessees, trustee, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court, who owns, controls, operates, manages, or resells a public telecommunications service as defined in Section 54-8b-2. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Total service long-run incremental cost: means the forward-looking incremental cost to a telecommunications corporation caused by providing the entire quantity of a public telecommunications service, network function, or group of public telecommunications services or network functions, by using forward-looking technology, reasonably available, without assuming relocation of existing plant and equipment. See Utah Code 54-8b-2
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5