Section 92-A. Special telephone equipment for hearing impaired persons

1.
  The   commission   shall   require   any  regulated  landline  telephone
  corporation providing local exchange service to sell  or  lease  special
  telecommunication  equipment  to  a person certified as hearing impaired
  where the addition of such equipment is necessary to enable such  person
  to  access  and  utilize  the  local  exchange network. The sale of such
  equipment shall be at an amount not to exceed the actual purchase  price
  by the corporation and the lease of such equipment shall be at a rate to
  be  determined  by  the commission. Any person who leases such equipment
  shall be permitted to apply the lease payments  toward  the  equipment's
  purchase.
    2.  The  commission  shall authorize the establishment of the New York
  telecommunications relay service center. In  developing  a  request  for
  proposals  to  provide  telecommunications  relay service the commission
  shall include the following minimum provisions:
    (a) The New York telecommunications  relay  service  center  shall  be
  located within the municipality of Syracuse, New York;
    (b)   A   minimum   of   eighty   percent   of   all  calls  utilizing
  telecommunications relay service must be routed to and through  the  New
  York telecommunications relay service center; and
    (c)  A  contract  to provide telecommunications relay service shall be
  renewable for up to five years, and the commission shall be empowered to
  promulgate and adopt all regulations required to implement the terms  of
  this subdivision.
    * NB Effective until June 1, 2013