Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 69 > Chapter 3 > Part 11 - Intrastate Consumer Protection

• Aggregator surcharge: means a charge to a customer by an entity that, in the ordinary course of its operations, makes telephones available to the public or to transient users of its premises for intrastate telephone calls using an operator service provider. See Montana Code 69-3-1102
• commission: means the public service commission provided for in 2-15-2602. See Montana Code 69-1-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Customer: means a person who makes an intrastate telephone call through an operator service provider or the person accepting a collect telephone call made through an operator service provider. See Montana Code 69-3-1102
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Operator service provider: means any person, company, or entity that provides automated or live assistance to a customer to arrange for billing or completion, or both, of an intrastate telephone call through a method other than:

  (a)automatic completion, with billing to the telephone from which the call originated; or

  (b)completion through an access code used by the customer, with billing to an account previously established with a telecommunications carrier by the customer. See Montana Code 69-3-1102

• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Telecommunications carrier: means the same as provided in 69-3-1302. See Montana Code 69-3-1102