California Public Utilities Code

§ 2883

PUC § 2883 Effective Jan 1, 2011Div. 1 · Part 2 · Ch. 10 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)(1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(A)As originally enacted, Section 2883 required local telephone corporations to provide a residential telephone connection with no customer account attached, also known as a warm line, access to “911” emergency service. This section took effect in 1995 when basic local exchange telephone service was provided exclusively by incumbent wireline providers operating within their franchise territories. Local exchange competition was nonexistent and wireless telephones were expensive and not in widespread use.

(B)At that time, the number of warm lines was very small. The practice of leaving warm lines in place continued the availability of “911” emergency service upon disconnection and permitted new residential service orders to be completed with minimum cost and delay.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 332, Sec. 1. (SB 1375) Effective January 1, 2011.