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S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-3050

Relationship between electric cooperatives and broadband affiliates; disconnection of electric services based on customer's failure to pay for broadband service

Known as the Broadband Accessibility Act

The act spans §§ 58-9-3000 to 58-9-3050 (6 sections).

2020 Act No. 175 (H.3780), SECTION 1, eff September 29, 2020.

(A) An electric cooperative may not condition the receipt of electric service on, nor provide more favorable terms for electric service for, persons that receive broadband service from the electric cooperative's broadband affiliate or any other broadband service provider.

(B) An electric cooperative may not share confidential information from an unaffiliated communications service provider obtained in a pole attachment request and approval process including, but not limited to, requested locations for pole attachments, the locations of customers to be served, or any identifying information regarding customers with its broadband affiliate or any other communications service provider.

(C) An electric cooperative shall not disconnect any customer from receiving electric services based on the customer's failure to pay for broadband service provided to the customer by the electric cooperative's broadband affiliate.

Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.