Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                        CHAPTER 152-H.F.No. 1127 
           An act relating to utilities; prohibiting multiparty 
          line telephone service to more than two subscribers 
          per line; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota 
          Statutes, chapter 237. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [237.068] [MULTIPARTY LINE TELEPHONE SERVICE.] 
    After October 31, 1993, no telephone company may offer or 
provide multiparty line telephone service to more than two 
subscribers per line, unless otherwise approved by the 
commission. 
    Sec. 2.  [CONVERSION FROM MULTIPARTY LINE TELEPHONE 
SERVICE.] 
     As soon as practicable, each telephone company that 
provides four-party telephone service in this state shall file a 
plan with the public utilities commission for the purpose of 
elimination of that service by October 31, 1993.  By January 1, 
1992 and by January 1, 1993, the commission shall report to the 
legislature on progress made on elimination of four-party 
service in the state.  If the commission approves provision of 
four-party service beyond October 31, 1993, each report must 
include an explanation of that approval and a specific schedule 
for elimination of the service within the shortest feasible time 
after that date.  The cost of converting from four-party service 
must be recovered through the rates for all of the company's 
customers proportionally according to the rate structure of the 
company. 
    Presented to the governor May 20, 1991 
    Signed by the governor May 22, 1991, 5:58 p.m.