7.04.490 Rates

(a) All charges, practices, classifications, and regulations for and in connection with such Communication Services shall be just and reasonable, and any such charge, practice, classification, or regulation that is unjust or unreasonable is declared to be unlawful.

(b) Rates established by a Person engaged in providing Communications Services shall first be approved by the Commission for reasonableness and justness before such rates are implemented, in accordance with the Commission's rules and regulations. Every Person engaged in providing Communications Services shall print, and make available for public inspection, its approved tariffs which include schedules showing the rates and terms of condition of service for the services rendered to the public.

(c) No change shall be made in the charges, classifications, regulations, or practices which have been so filed and published except after one hundred eighty (180) days' notice to the Commission. In its discretion, the Commission may decrease the notice period. The 180-day period specified in this section will not begin to run for any pending request for a change until the effective date of this chapter. The Commission may reject and refuse to file any schedule entered for filing which does not provide and give lawful notice of its effective date. Any schedule so rejected by the Commission shall be void and its use shall be unlawful.

(d) Nothing within this section shall prohibit any person providing Communications Service from offering discounts or promotions or establishing rates at a level below that established by the Commission on a non-discriminatory basis, provided at least fifteen (15) days prior to offering such discounts or promotions such discount or promotion will be filed with the Commission in accordance with its rules and regulations.