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                                  1029--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
   cations  --  recommitted  to  the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
   cations in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 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:
 
   Section 1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new  section
 92-i to read as follows:
   §  92-I.  NOTICE  OF SERVICE OUTAGE. 1. THE COMMISSION SHALL, BY REGU-
 LATIONS ADOPTED OR AMENDED PURSUANT TO THIS  SECTION,  ESTABLISH  NOTICE
 REQUIREMENTS  THAT SHALL APPLY TO ALL TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROVID-
 ERS, RELATING TO SERVICE OUTAGES THAT  LAST  FOR  TWENTY-FOUR  HOURS  OR
 LONGER  AND  WHICH AFFECT FIVE CUSTOMERS PER ONE HUNDRED ACCESS LINES OR
 MORE. FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION,  "TELECOMMUNICATIONS  SERVICE
 PROVIDER"  OR  "PROVIDER  OF  TELECOMMUNICATIONS  SERVICES" SHALL MEAN A
 TELEPHONE CORPORATION CERTIFIED IN  THE  STATE  WITH  THE  AUTHORITY  TO
 PROVIDE  INTRASTATE TOLL AND LOCAL EXCHANGE SERVICE USING EITHER ITS OWN
 OR LEASED FACILITIES. THE  COMMISSION  SHALL  INCLUDE  WITH  THE  NOTICE
 REQUIREMENTS,  METHODOLOGIES FOR MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH AND ENFORCE-
 MENT OF SUCH STANDARDS.
   2. THE TERMS USED IN THIS SECTION  EXCEPT  WHERE  EXPRESSLY  INDICATED
 OTHERWISE  SHALL  MEAN  AND  BE DEFINED AS SET FORTH IN 16 NEW YORK CODE
 RULES AND REGULATIONS SECTION 603.3.
   3. EVERY PROVIDER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE  NOTICE
 TO  THE COMMISSIONER AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE BUT IN NO EVENT LATER THAN A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04894-02-8
              

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 TIME CERTAIN TO BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, AT
 A MINIMUM:
   (A)  THE  APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF OUT-OF-SERVICE CUSTOMERS BY CITY, TOWN
 OR OTHER LOCALIZED GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION; AND
   (B) AN ESTIMATE OF THE DURATION OF SUCH OUTAGE.
   4. EVERY PROVIDER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SHALL, TO THE  EXTENT
 PRACTICABLE,  MAKE  INFORMATION  RELATING  TO ESTIMATED DURATION OF SUCH
 OUTAGE AVAILABLE TO CUSTOMERS  THROUGH  THE  PROVIDER'S  WEBSITE,  LOCAL
 MEDIA OR ANY OTHER MEDIUM DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that the public service commission
 is immediately authorized and directed to  take  any  and  all  actions,
 including but not limited to the promulgation of any rules, necessary to
 fully implement the provisions of this act on its effective date.