PRINTER'S NO. 4220
No. 2875 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY GORDNER, BELARDI, BELFANTI, CAWLEY, FAIRCHILD,
GRUCELA, HASAY, LUCYK, MUNDY, STABACK AND YUDICHAK,
NOVEMBER 21, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, NOVEMBER 21, 2000
AN ACT
1 Providing for public hearings and consideration of an area code
2 relief plan for the 570 Numbering Plan Area.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Short title.
6 This act shall be known and may be cited as the 570 Area Code
7 Public Input Hearing Act.
8 Section 2. Definitions.
9 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
10 have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
11 context clearly indicates otherwise:
12 "Commission." The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
13 "Numbering Plan Area" or "NPA." The first three digits of a
14 ten-digit telephone number in the North American Numbering Plan,
15 commonly referred to as the area code.
16 Section 3. Public input hearings.
17 The commission may not implement any area code relief plan
1 for the 570 NPA until it holds at least two public input
2 hearings in geographically diverse regions within the 570 NPA.
3 The commission shall offer sufficient prior notice of each
4 hearing, including, but not limited to, publishing notices in
5 the Pennsylvania Bulletin and local newspapers and notifying
6 each member of the General Assembly whose district is located
7 entirely or partially within the 570 NPA.
8 Section 4. Final order.
9 The commission shall consider other options for number
10 conservation after compiling and analyzing input from the
11 hearings held pursuant to section 3. After holding the public
12 input hearings pursuant to section 3, the commission shall open
13 a 30-day comment period, giving notice in the Pennsylvania
14 Bulletin, to gather additional comments on the matter. The
15 commission may not issue a final order on an area code relief
16 plan for the 570 NPA until the public input hearings and the
17 additional comment period have expired.
18 Section 5. Effective date.
19 This act shall take effect immediately.
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