Sec. 52.105  Warehousing.

    (a) As used in this section, warehousing is the practice whereby 
Responsible Organizations, either directly or indirectly through an 
affiliate, reserve toll free numbers from the Service Management System 
database without having an actual toll free subscriber for whom those 
numbers are being reserved.
    (b) Responsible Organizations shall not warehouse toll free numbers. 
There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a Responsible Organization 
is warehousing toll free numbers if:
    (1) The Responsible Organization does not have an identified toll 
free subscriber agreeing to be billed for service associated with each 
toll free number reserved from the Service Management System database; 
or
    (2) The Responsible Organization does not have an identified toll 
free subscriber agreeing to be billed for service associated with a toll 
free number before switching that toll free number from reserved or 
assigned to working status.
    (c) Responsible Organizations shall not maintain a toll free number 
in reserved status if there is not a prospective toll free subscriber 
requesting that toll free number.
    (d) A Responsible Organization's act of reserving a number from the 
Service Management System database shall serve as that Responsible 
Organization's certification that there is an

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identified toll free subscriber agreeing to be billed for service 
associated with the toll free number.
    (e) Tariff Provision. The following provision shall be included in 
the Service Management System tariff and in the local exchange carriers' 
toll free database access tariffs:

    [T]he Federal Communications Commission (``FCC'') has concluded that 
warehousing, which the FCC defines as Responsible Organizations, either 
directly or indirectly through an affiliate, reserving toll free numbers 
from the SMS database without having an identified toll free subscriber 
from whom those numbers are being reserved, is an unreasonable practice 
under Sec. 201(b) of the Communications Act and is inconsistent with the 
Commission's obligation under Sec. 251(e) of the Communications Act to 
ensure that numbers are made available on an equitable basis; and if a 
Responsible Organization does not have an identified toll free 
subscriber agreeing to be billed for service associated with each toll 
free number reserved from the database, or if a Responsible Organization 
does not have an identified, billed toll free subscriber before 
switching a number from reserved or assigned to working status, then 
there is a rebuttable presumption that the Responsible Organization is 
warehousing numbers. Responsible Organizations that warehouse numbers 
will be subject to penalties.