476.95A Annual registration for telecommunications service providers.
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1. A provider of telecommunications service, as defined in section 476.103, offering telephone numbers to retail customers in this state shall register annually with the commission.
2. An applicant shall complete an application for registration on a form provided by the commission. The form shall include contact information, the approximate number of service lines provided in the state, and any other information deemed necessary by the commission.
3. Within five business days of the receipt of a completed application for registration, the commission shall issue a nonexclusive acknowledgment of compliance with this section. The acknowledgment shall authorize the registrant to obtain telephone numbers, interconnect with other telecommunications service providers, cross railroad rights-of-way pursuant to section 476.27, and provide telecommunications service in this state. An acknowledgment may be transferred by filing a new or updated registration form.
4. A registrant shall submit to the commission corrections to the information supplied in the registration form within a reasonable time after a change in circumstances, which circumstances would be required to be reported in an application for registration form.
5. Refusal to file and maintain an annual registration pursuant to this section is a violation of this chapter and may subject a telecommunications service provider to a civil penalty pursuant to section 476.51.
6. Notwithstanding this subsection, the commission shall continue to recognize the validity of, and the rights conferred upon, a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued to a telecommunications service provider by the commission prior to July 1, 2018.
Referred to in §476.1B, 476.6, 476.9, 476.10, 476.20, 476.54