# COMAR Title 20 — Public Service Commission

## Subtitle 45 — Service Supplied by Telephone Companies

### Chapter 09 — Intrastate Switched Access and Pay Phone Dial Around Surcharge Rates

#### Regulation .03 Intrastate Switch Access Rates.

*COMAR 20.45.09.03*

A. The provisions of this regulation are subject to the requirements of federal law.

B. A local exchange company’s intrastate originating switched access rates may not exceed its interstate originating access rates, as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission. In mirroring its interstate originating access rates, a local exchange company shall:

  (1) Eliminate or zero-rate any intrastate rate element that does not exist in the interstate jurisdiction;

  (2) Decrease any intrastate rate element that is higher than its corresponding interstate rate element to equal the interstate rate; and

  (3) Increase any intrastate rate element that is lower than its corresponding interstate rate element to equal the interstate rate.

C. Notwithstanding §B of this regulation, a local exchange company’s intrastate per-query rate for use of an 8YY database may not exceed the rate of the incumbent local exchange telephone company having the largest number of access lines in Maryland.