56:8-89 Rules, regulations relative to telecommunications service providers.

4. The board, in consultation with the director, shall adopt rules and regulations relating to changes in telecommunications service providers that are consistent with federal law, rules and regulations and which, among other requirements, shall establish procedures for a customer to confirm a change in a telecommunications service provider made by another telecommunications service provider on behalf of the customer, establish procedures by which the new telecommunications service provider shall notify a customer of a change in a telecommunications service provider, and set forth methods for enforcing those rules and regulations, pursuant to an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission. Such agreement shall include a provision which requires the board to issue an order citing the provision of federal law, rules or regulations of which a telecommunications service provider is in violation, citing the action which constituted the violation, ordering abatement of the violation, and giving notice to the telecommunications service provider of the right to a hearing on the matters contained in the order, whenever it appears to the board that the telecommunications service provider has violated any provision of federal law, rule or regulation relating to a change in telecommunications service providers where the customer of the telecommunications service provider is a resident of this State.

L.1998,c.82,s.4; amended 2001, c.330, s.1.