TITLE 61

PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION

CHAPTER 13

TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY SERVICES

61-1304.  Telecommunications relay services fund. (1) The administrator shall establish a fund for the provision of relay services under this chapter, not including customer premises equipment, to be known and designated as the Idaho telecommunications relay services fund, in such depository and under such regulations as shall be established by the commission, to which shall be credited:

(a)  All monetary contributions, gifts and grants received by the administrator;

(b)  All charges billed and collected pursuant to section 61-1305, Idaho Code.

(2)  No funds derived from charges billed and collected pursuant to section 61-1305, Idaho Code, shall be used for the acquisition of end user text telephones.

(3)  All moneys deposited in the telecommunications relay fund shall be expended for the purpose of defraying the expenses, debts and costs incurred in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, and for defraying administrative expenses of the administrator, including necessary expenses for consultants to the administrator, expenses for travel, supplies and equipment and other expenses of the administrator necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this chapter. All moneys credited to the telecommunications relay services fund may be expended by the administrator at such times and in such manner as may be authorized by the commission.

History:

[61-1304, added 1992, ch. 148, sec. 1, p. 445.]