As used in the Telephone and Telegraph Company Certification Act:
A. "commission" means the public regulation commission;
B. "telephone company" means a company, corporation, partnership, individual or others, not engaged solely in interstate business, furnishing mobile telephone service or radio paging;
C. "public utility telephone service" means making and offering mobile telephone or radio paging service to or for the public generally and being ready, willing and able to furnish such service with adequate equipment; and
D. "certificated area" means the geographical area that a telephone company is authorized to serve by a certificate of public convenience and necessity and that is defined on the map as part of the certificate.
History: 1953 Comp., § 69-10-2, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 292, § 2; 1975, ch. 59, § 1; 1985, ch. 242, § 22; 1998, ch. 108, § 54.
The 1998 amendment, effective January 1, 1999, substituted "public regulation" for "state corporation" near the end of Subsection A; and substituted "that" for "which" in two places in Subsection D.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 63 - Railroads and Communications
Article 9 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies
Section 63-9-3 - Certificate required for operation.
Section 63-9-4 - Certificate for operations.
Section 63-9-5 - Application for certificate.
Section 63-9-6 - Issuance of certificate; territory on map.
Section 63-9-7 - Duty to exercise authority; discontinuance.
Section 63-9-8 - Assignability.
Section 63-9-9 - Nonduplication in certificated areas.
Section 63-9-10 - Conflict in noncertificated contiguous areas.
Section 63-9-11 - Complaint alleging violation by telephone company.
Section 63-9-12 to 63-9-14 - Repealed.
Section 63-9-15 - Validity of orders; substantial compliance with act sufficient.