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1996 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 56-241.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 56-241.1. Flat and measured telephone rates; certain rates prohibited.
The Commission shall not approve any mandatory tariff for local service of
any telephone company Every telephone company which offers dial tone
line or substantially equivalent local service shall offer to its residential
and business customers at least one offering of such service consisting of a
single dial tone line, including associated usage, for the purpose of two-way
voice communications within a local calling area at a flat rate unless there
was no telephone company offering such a class of service at a flat rate in the
local calling area on January 1, 1979. No residential or business customer
shall be forced to accept local measured rate service for calling within a
local calling area based on the number of calls, length of call, distance
or time of day, not in effect on January 1, 1979. Nothing contained herein
shall prohibit the Commission from approving the voluntary tariff of any
telephone company based on the number of calls, length of call, distance or
time of day.