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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

96 STAT. 2044

PUBLIC LAW 97-410—JAN. 3, 1983

"(f) The Commission shall complete rulemaking actions required by this section and issue specific and detailed rules and regulations resulting therefrom within one year after the date of enactment of Review. the Telecommunications for the Disabled Act of 1982. Thereafter the Commission shall periodically review such rules and regulations. Except for coin-operated telephones and telephones provided for emergency use, the Commission may not require the retrofitting of equipment to achieve the purposes of this section.

    • (g) Any common carrier or connecting carrier may provide specialized terminal equipment needed by persons whose hearing,

speech, vision, or mobility is impaired. The State commission may allow the carrier to recover in its tariffs for regulated service reasonable and prudent costs not chained directly to users of such equipment. Enforcement. "(h) The Commission shall del^ate to each State commission the authority to enforce within such State compliance with the specific r^ulations that the Commission issues under subsections (a) and (b), conditioned upon the adoption and enforcement of such regulations by the State commission.". 47 USC 396 note. SEC. 4. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of section 1225(a) of the 95 Stat. 725. Public Broadcasting Amendments Act of 1981 is amended to read as follows: Directors, terms "(B) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of section 396 of office. of the Communications Act of 1934, in the case of the offices of 47 USC 396. director the terms of which expired March 1982, persons appointed to fill two of such vacancies existing as of December 13, 1982, shall be appointed for terms which shall expire on March 1, 1984 and shall not be representative of the political party having a majority of the directors of the Board on December 13, 1982. Persons appointed for a term b a n n i n g March 1, 1984, to fill the vacancies occurring in such offices the terms of which, by reeison of the preceding sentence, expire on March 1, 1984, shall not be filled by persons representing the political party having a msgority of the directors of the Bocu^ on March 1, 1984. Persons appointed on or after March 1, 1984, to fill vacancies in the two such offices shall be appointed for terms of five years. On March 1, 1984, there are abolished those five offices of director the terms of which, without application of the preceding provisions of this paragraph, expire on such date. In administering the provisions of this paragraph a

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