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23-16-405. Assessment on eligible telecommunications carriers.
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23-16-405. Assessment on eligible telecommunications carriers.
(a)(1) The Board of Directors of the Arkansas Lifeline Individual Verification Effort Corporation shall levy assessments on all eligible telecommunications carriers participating in the verification program not to exceed ten cents (10¢) per subject access line per month in order to fund the services provided by the Arkansas Lifeline Individual Verification Effort Corporation.
(2) Participation in the verification program shall be available only for eligible telecommunications carriers having a customer access base of fifteen thousand (15,000) or fewer.
(b) The board may adjust the assessment in January of each year, but at no time shall the assessment exceed ten cents (10¢) per subject access line per month.
(c) The assessment shall not be levied on more than one hundred (100) access lines at any single customer location.
(d)(1) The assessment may be collected by an eligible telecommunications carrier from its customers and transmitted monthly to the board, and the board shall deposit the assessment into a financial institution authorized to accept public funds.
(2) The assessment shall appear on the bills of customers as a combined total with the assessment by the Arkansas Deaf and Hearing Impaired Telecommunications Services Corporation under § 25-29-103. The item on the bill shall identify both assessments by name.
(e) The assessments levied by the corporation shall not be considered a tax and shall not be affected by any laws of this state governing taxation, nor shall the assessments be subject to any state or local tax or franchise fee.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-16-405
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23-16-405. Assessment on eligible telecommunications carriers.
(a)(1) The Board of Directors of the Arkansas Lifeline Individual Verification Effort Corporation shall levy assessments on all eligible telecommunications carriers participating in the verification program not to exceed ten cents (10¢) per subject access line per month in order to fund the services provided by the Arkansas Lifeline Individual Verification Effort Corporation.
(2) Participation in the verification program shall be available only for eligible telecommunications carriers having a customer access base of fifteen thousand (15,000) or fewer.
(b) The board may adjust the assessment in January of each year, but at no time shall the assessment exceed ten cents (10¢) per subject access line per month.
(c) The assessment shall not be levied on more than one hundred (100) access lines at any single customer location.
(d)(1) The assessment may be collected by an eligible telecommunications carrier from its customers and transmitted monthly to the board, and the board shall deposit the assessment into a financial institution authorized to accept public funds.
(2) The assessment shall appear on the bills of customers as a combined total with the assessment by the Arkansas Deaf and Hearing Impaired Telecommunications Services Corporation under § 25-29-103. The item on the bill shall identify both assessments by name.
(e) The assessments levied by the corporation shall not be considered a tax and shall not be affected by any laws of this state governing taxation, nor shall the assessments be subject to any state or local tax or franchise fee.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
25-29-103. Assessment on local exchange service providers.
(a) In order to fund the services provided by the Arkansas Deaf and Hearing Impaired Telecommunications Services Corporation, the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Deaf and Hearing Impaired Telecommunications Services Corporation shall levy assessments on all providers of:
(1) Local l exchange service not to exceed ten cents (10¢) per subject access line per month in order to fund the services provided by the corporation; and
(2)(A) Commercial mobile radio service not to exceed ten cents (10¢) per customer account or number.
(B) As used in this section, “commercial mobile radio service” means the same as defined in § 12-10-303.
(b) The board may adjust the assessment no more than once in a calendar year quarter, but at no time shall the assessment exceed the amount set in subsection (a) of this section.
(c) The assessment under subdivision (a)(1) of this section shall not be levied on more than one hundred (100) lines at any single customer location.
(d) The assessments levied under subsection (a) of this section may be collected by the providers of local exchange service or commercial mobile radio service from their customers and transmitted monthly to the board, and the board shall deposit the assessments into a financial institution authorized to accept public funds.
(e) The assessments levied under subsection (a) of this section by the corporation shall not be considered a tax and shall not be affected by any laws of this state governing taxation, nor shall the assessments be subject to any state or local tax or franchise fee.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 25-29-103
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 25-29-103. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.