Section 63-9C-2 - Purpose.
63-9C-2. Purpose.
It is the purpose of the Low Income Telephone Service Assistance Act [63-9C-1 NMSA 1978] to assure that telephone rate increases do not force many low-income New Mexicans to discontinue necessary telephone service and to increase the availability of basic telephone service to low-income New Mexicans by providing assistance to meet the cost of basic telephone service.