CHAPTER 3.5. New Area Codes [7930. - 7943.]

Chapter 3.5 added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 199, Sec. 1.

§§ 7930–7943 · 11 sections

• § 7930 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The explosive demand for new area codes in California requires more area codes to be established…
• § 7931 (a) This chapter is applicable to telephone corporations, including resellers, and to paging companies, hereafter referred to as providers. (b) For purposes of…
• § 7932 (a) Whenever a provider opens a new area code, it shall do all of the following: (1) If the new area code plan permits seven-digit dialing, provide for a…
• § 7933 The rate structure of any call originating in or made to an area code shall not change with the split of an area code into two or more area codes, regardless…
• § 7934 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The number of area codes in this state has more than doubled since 1991. (b) The proliferation of…
• § 7935 (a) The commission shall develop and implement any measures it determines to be available for telephone corporations that possess prefixes to efficiently…
• § 7936 The commission shall direct the North American Numbering Plan Administrator to obtain utilization data for any area code for which a relief plan is proposed,…
• § 7938 The commission shall require, as an interim measure until the commission develops procedures for number pooling or adopts utilization standards, that number…
• § 7939 (a) If the commission or an authorized federal agency establishes a process to ensure that telephone numbers can be allocated in blocks smaller than 10,000,…
• § 7940 A telephone corporation doing business in this state that possesses one or more telephone number prefixes, or portions thereof, shall provide to the commission…
• § 7943 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that when the commission has no reasonable alternative other than to create a new area code, that the commission do so…