§ 39-3-41. Regulations for pay-per-call services.
(a) The commission may promulgate reasonable regulations concerning the offering of pay-per-call services to customers within the state. The regulations may include advertising standards, conditions under which charges for “pay-per-call services” may be adjusted or waived along with other restrictions or requirements that the commission determines are necessary to protect consumers’ reasonable access to “pay-per-call services.”
(b) For the purposes of this section, “pay-per-call service” means any passive, interactive, polling, conference, or other similar audiotext service that is accessed by telephone, through a 900 area or exchange code or otherwise, and generates a service-related fee billed to a telephone customer via a telephone common carrier or local exchange telephone company in the customer’s normal monthly bill for telephone service.
History of Section.P.L. 1992, ch. 389, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration
Section 39-3-1. - Services for which certificate of necessity required.
Section 39-3-1.1. - Purchasing cooperatives.
Section 39-3-1.2. - Aggregation of electrical load by municipality or group of municipalities.
Section 39-3-2. - Persons and companies eligible for certificates.
Section 39-3-3. - Certificate requirement for water carriers.
Section 39-3-3.1. - Petition for certificate by water carrier — Notice of pendency.
Section 39-3-4. - Water carriers entitled to certificate as of right.
Section 39-3-5. - Petition for certificate of necessity — Notice of pendency.
Section 39-3-7. - Fixing standards for service.
Section 39-3-7.1. - Prohibited practices.
Section 39-3-8. - Standards for measurement and testing of service.
Section 39-3-9. - Testing of measuring devices.
Section 39-3-10. - Filing and availability of rate schedules.
Section 39-3-11. - Notice of change in rates — Suspension of change — Hearings.
Section 39-3-11.1. - Changes in rates of publicly owned water authorities.
Section 39-3-11.2. - [Repealed.]
Section 39-3-11.3. - Providence Water Supply Board transfer.
Section 39-3-12. - Burden of proof to sustain increased rates — Modification of requirements.
Section 39-3-12.1. - Information required of water utility.
Section 39-3-12.2. - Certain advertising costs prohibited on rate base.
Section 39-3-13. - Emergency suspension of rate schedules.
Section 39-3-13.1. - Power to order refunds.
Section 39-3-14. - Accounting and records of utilities.
Section 39-3-15. - Security issues for which permission required.
Section 39-3-16. - [Repealed.]
Section 39-3-17. - Procedure for obtaining authority for security issues.
Section 39-3-18. - Order of division as to security issue.
Section 39-3-19. - Unauthorized securities.
Section 39-3-20. - Securities of foreign utilities.
Section 39-3-21. - Penalty for false statements.
Section 39-3-22. - Security dividends — Distribution of proceeds of securities.
Section 39-3-23. - Charters amended — Availability of information.
Section 39-3-24. - Transactions between utilities for which approval required.
Section 39-3-25. - Proceedings for approval of transactions between utilities.
Section 39-3-26. - Charters amended to authorize approved transactions.
Section 39-3-27. - Definitions.
Section 39-3-28. - Filing of agreements with affiliates.
Section 39-3-29. - Effect of failure to file agreements.
Section 39-3-30. - Investigation and order as to transaction between affiliates.
Section 39-3-31. - Court order to cease practice impairing service.
Section 39-3-32. - Disallowance of payments to affiliates in rate proceedings.
Section 39-3-33. - Rules of division.
Section 39-3-34. - Utilities to which restrictions apply.
Section 39-3-35. - Municipal rights and franchises subject to regulation.
Section 39-3-36. - Notice of railroad hearing.
Section 39-3-37. - Public utilities — Informational mailings.
Section 39-3-37.1. - Conservation notice on water bills.
Section 39-3-37.2. - Informational notice on electric bills.
Section 39-3-37.3. - Informational notice on electric bills — Electric distribution company.
Section 39-3-38. - Wholesale contracts for the sale of water — Rates or charges.
Section 39-3-39. - Purchase of power from small production facilities by electric utilities.
Section 39-3-40. - Storage, transportation, and distribution of gas — Regulation — Penalties.
Section 39-3-41. - Regulations for pay-per-call services.
Section 39-3-42. - [Repealed.]