ASSEMBLY, No. 2117

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED JUNE 3, 1996

By Assemblymen WISNIEWSKI and DeCROCE

An Act concerning telephones and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. The Board of Public Utilities shall require telephone companies assigning telephone area codes in this State not to assign more than one area code to a municipality.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill requires the Board of Public Utilities to prohibit telephone companies from assigning more than one area code to any one municipality. Proposals have been made by Bell Atlantic to "split" communities by assigning one area code or codes to one part of a community and another area code or codes to another part of the community.

Directs BPU to require telephone companies not to split area codes within municipality.