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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication

§ 616. Internet protocol-based relay services

Statutory text

Within one year after , each interconnected VoIP service provider and each provider of non-interconnected VoIP service shall participate in and contribute to the Telecommunications Relay Services Fund established in section 64.604(c)(5)(iii) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on , in a manner prescribed by the Commission by regulation to provide for obligations of such providers that are consistent with and comparable to the obligations of other contributors to such Fund.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010

    Pub. L. 111–260 title I § 103(b) · 124 Stat. 2751

    Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 616

    (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VII, § 715, as added Pub. L. 111–260, title I, § 103(b), Oct. 8, 2010, 124 Stat. 2755.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VII, § 715, as added Pub. L. 111–260, title I, § 103(b), Oct. 8, 2010, 124 Stat. 2755.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (b) Internet Protocol-based Relay Services.— Title VII of such Act (47 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “SEC. 715. INTERNET PROTOCOL-BASED RELAY SERVICES.    Deadline. “Within one year after the date of enactment of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, each interconnected VoIP service provider and each provider of non-interconnected VoIP service shall participate in and contribute to the Telecommunications Relay Services Fund established in section 64.604(c)(5)(iii) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on the date of enactment of such Act, in a manner prescribed by the Commission by regulation to provide for obligations of such providers that are consistent with and comparable to the obligations of other contributors to such Fund.” .

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VII, § 715, as added Pub. L. 111–260, title I, § 103(b), , 124 Stat. 2755.)

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