476.96  Definitions.
  As used in sections 476.95, 476.100, and 476.101, unless the context otherwise requires:
  1.  “Competitive local exchange service provider” means any person, including a municipal utility, that provides local exchange services, other than a local exchange carrier or a nonrate-regulated wireline provider of local exchange services under an authorized certificate of public convenience and necessity within a specific geographic area described in maps filed with and approved by the board as of September 30, 1992.
  2.  “Local exchange carrier” means any person that was the incumbent and historical rate-regulated wireline provider of local exchange services or any successor to such person that provides local exchange services under an authorized certificate of public convenience and necessity within a specific geographic area described in maps filed with and approved by the board as of September 30, 1992.
95 Acts, ch 199, §7
; 97 Acts, ch 81, §4, 6
; 2014 Acts, ch 1099, §15
; 2015 Acts, ch 30, §154

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