[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR68.3]

[Page 356]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 68_CONNECTION OF TERMINAL EQUIPMENT TO THE TELEPHONE NETWORK
--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec.  68.3  Definitions.

    As used in this part:
    Demarcation point (also point of interconnection). As used in this 
part, the point of demarcation and/or interconnection between the 
communications facilities of a provider of wireline telecommunications, 
and terminal equipment, protective apparatus or wiring at a subscriber's 
premises.
    Essential telephones. Only coin-operated telephones, telephones 
provided for emergency use, and other telephones frequently needed for 
use by persons using such hearing aids.
    Harm. Electrical hazards to the personnel of providers of wireline 
telecommunications, damage to the equipment of providers of wireline 
telecommunications, malfunction of the billing equipment of providers of 
wireline telecommunications, and degradation of service to persons other 
than the user of the subject terminal equipment, his calling or called 
party.
    Hearing aid compatible. Except as used at Sec. Sec.  68.4(a)(3) and 
68.414, the terms hearing aid compatible or hearing aid compatibility 
are used as defined in Sec.  68.316, unless it is specifically stated 
that hearing aid compatibility volume control, as defined in Sec.  
68.317, is intended or is included in the definition.
    Inside wiring or premises wiring. Customer-owned or controlled wire 
on the subscriber's side of the demarcation point.
    Premises. As used herein, generally a dwelling unit, other building 
or a legal unit of real property such as a lot on which a dwelling unit 
is located, as determined by the provider of telecommunications 
service's reasonable and nondiscriminatory standard operating practices.
    Private radio services. Private land mobile radio services and other 
communications services characterized by the Commission in its rules as 
private radio services.
    Public mobile services. Air-to-ground radiotelephone services, 
cellular radio telecommunications services, offshore radio, rural radio 
service, public land mobile telephone service, and other common carrier 
radio communications services covered by part 22 of Title 47 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations.
    Responsible party. The party or parties responsible for the 
compliance of terminal equipment or protective circuitry intended for 
connection directly to the public switched telephone network with the 
applicable rules and regulations in this part and with the technical 
criteria published by the Administrative Council for Terminal 
Attachments. If a Telecommunications Certification Body certifies the 
terminal equipment, the responsible party is the holder of the 
certificate for that equipment. If the terminal equipment is the subject 
of a Supplier's Declaration of Conformity, the responsible party shall 
be: the manufacturer of the terminal equipment, or the manufacturer of 
protective circuitry that is marketed for use with terminal equipment 
that is not to be connected directly to the network, or if the equipment 
is imported, the importer, or if the terminal equipment is assembled 
from individual component parts, the assembler. If the equipment is 
modified by any party not working under the authority of the responsible 
party, the party performing the modifications, if located within the 
U.S., or the importer, if the equipment is imported subsequent to the 
modifications, becomes the new responsible party. Retailers or original 
equipment manufacturers may enter into an agreement with the assembler 
or importer to assume the responsibilities to ensure compliance of the 
terminal equipment and to become the responsible party.
    Secure telephones. Telephones that are approved by the United States 
Government for the transmission of classified or sensitive voice 
communications.
    Terminal equipment. As used in this part, communications equipment 
located on customer premises at the end of a communications link, used 
to permit the stations involved to accomplish the provision of 
telecommunications or information services.

[66 FR 7581, Jan. 24, 2001]