HB1164 (2006) Detail

Requiring cellular telephone service providers to have a minimum 72-hour power backup capacity at each cell tower location.


HB 1164 – AS INTRODUCED

2006 SESSION

06-2160

03/09

HOUSE BILL 1164

AN ACT requiring cellular telephone service providers to have a minimum 72-hour power backup capacity at each cell tower location.

SPONSORS: Rep. McRae, Hills 7; Rep. Pilliod, Belk 5

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

ANALYSIS

This bill requires cellular telephone service providers to have a minimum 72-hour power backup capacity at each cell tower location.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

06-2160

03/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six

AN ACT requiring cellular telephone service providers to have a minimum 72-hour power backup capacity at each cell tower location.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Wireless Carriers Doing Business in This State; Requirements; Power Backup. Amend RSA 12-K:3 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. Have, at a minimum, a 72-hour power backup for each PWSF owned or operated by the carrier and used for cellular telephone services.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.