Bill Text: NY S06346 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires telecommunication service providers to provide notice relating to a service outage to the public service commission that includes information about geographic distribution of the outage and an estimate of the duration of the outage; requires providers to make information about restoration of service available to customers to the extent practicable.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S06346 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S06346-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6346
I N S E N A T E
January 31, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring tele-
communication service providers to provide notice relating to service
outages
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
2 92-g to read as follows:
3 S 92-G. NOTICE OF SERVICE OUTAGE. 1. THE COMMISSION SHALL, BY REGU-
4 LATIONS ADOPTED OR AMENDED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, ESTABLISH NOTICE
5 REQUIREMENTS THAT SHALL APPLY TO ALL TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROVID-
6 ERS, RELATING TO SERVICE OUTAGES THAT LAST FOR TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OR
7 LONGER AND WHICH AFFECT FIVE CUSTOMERS PER ONE HUNDRED ACCESS LINES OR
8 MORE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE
9 PROVIDER" OR "PROVIDER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES" SHALL MEAN A
10 TELEPHONE CORPORATION CERTIFIED IN THE STATE WITH THE AUTHORITY TO
11 PROVIDE INTRASTATE TOLL AND LOCAL EXCHANGE SERVICE USING EITHER ITS OWN
12 OR LEASED FACILITIES. THE COMMISSION SHALL INCLUDE WITH THE NOTICE
13 REQUIREMENTS, METHODOLOGIES FOR MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH AND ENFORCE-
14 MENT OF SUCH STANDARDS.
15 2. THE TERMS USED IN THIS SECTION EXCEPT WHERE EXPRESSLY INDICATED
16 OTHERWISE SHALL MEAN AND BE DEFINED AS SET FORTH IN 16 NEW YORK CODE
17 RULES AND REGULATIONS SECTION 603.3.
18 3. EVERY PROVIDER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE NOTICE
19 TO THE COMMISSIONER AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE BUT IN NO EVENT LATER THAN A
20 TIME CERTAIN TO BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, AT
21 A MINIMUM:
22 (A) THE APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF OUT-OF-SERVICE CUSTOMERS BY CITY, TOWN
23 OR OTHER LOCALIZED GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION; AND
24 (B) AN ESTIMATE OF THE DURATION OF SUCH OUTAGE.
25 4. EVERY PROVIDER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SHALL, TO THE EXTENT
26 PRACTICABLE, MAKE INFORMATION RELATING TO ESTIMATED DURATION OF SUCH
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13469-02-2
S. 6346 2
1 OUTAGE AVAILABLE TO CUSTOMERS THROUGH THE PROVIDER'S WEBSITE, LOCAL
2 MEDIA OR ANY OTHER MEDIUM DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION.
3 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law; provided, however, that the public service commission
5 is immediately authorized and directed to take any and all actions,
6 including but not limited to the promulgation of any rules, necessary to
7 fully implement the provisions of this act on its effective date.
