77-3-501 - Legislative findings.

§ 77-3-501. Legislative findings.
 

The Legislature of the State of Mississippi finds: 
 

(a) That telephone service provides a rapid and essential communications link among the general public and with essential offices and organizations such as police, fire and medical facilities; 

(b) That all persons should have basic telephone service available to them at a fair and equitable cost; 

(c) That a significant portion of Mississippi's hearing and speech impaired population have profound disabilities which render normal telephone equipment useless without additional specialized devices; and 

(d) That there exists a need for a program whereby access to basic telephone service for hearing and speech impaired persons is equal in cost to the amount paid by other telephone customers. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1990, ch. 321, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved March 12, 1990).