N.Y. General Business Law § 336-b: Public pay telephone volume controls

* § 336-b. Public pay telephone volume controls. 1. Each telephone

corporation doing business in this state which provides public pay

telephones, including those owners or providers of customer owned

currency operated telephones (COCOT's), shall provide at least

twenty-five percent of its public pay telephones installed on or after

January first, nineteen hundred ninety-three with volume control

equipment to enable deaf or hard of hearing persons to access and

utilize telecommunications services. The telephones with volume control

equipment shall be distributed evenly among the public pay telephones

provided by the corporation. Each public pay telephone with a volume

control shall have signage either on the telephone or in the immediate

vicinity thereof, identifying that telephone as being equipped with a

deaf or hard of hearing volume control.

2. Whenever more than two public pay telephones are installed within

fifty feet of each other then at least one such telephone shall be

equipped with volume control equipment.

3. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all buildings

or facilities constructed for public use.

4. For the purposes of this section the following terms shall have the

following meanings:

a. "Building or facility" shall mean all or any portion of buildings,

structures, equipment, roads, walks, parking lots, parks, sites, or

other real property or interest in such property;

b. "Public use" shall mean any interior and exterior rooms or spaces

made available to the general public. Public use may be provided at a

building or facility that is privately or publicly owned;

c. "Signage" shall mean the display of written, symbolic, tactile, or

pictorial information.

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