Sec. 68.213  Installation of other than ``fully protected'' non-system 
          simple customer premises wiring.

    (a) Scope of this rule. Provisions of this rule apply only to 
``unprotected'' premises wiring used with simple installations of wiring 
for up to four line residential and business telephone service. More 
complex installations of wiring for multiple line services, for use with 
systems such as PBX and key telephone systems, are controlled by 
Sec. 68.215 of these rules.
    (b) Wiring authorized. Unprotected premises wiring may be used to 
connect units of terminal equipment or protective circuitry to one 
another, and to carrier-installed facilities if installed in accordance 
with these rules. The telephone company is not responsible, except 
pursuant to agreement between it and the customer or undertakings by it, 
otherwise consistent with Commission requirements, for installation and 
maintenance of wiring on the subscriber's side of the demarcation point, 
including any wire or jacks that may have been installed by the carrier. 
The subscriber and/or premises owner may install wiring on the 
subscriber's side of the demarcation point, and may remove, reconfigure, 
and rearrange wiring on that side of the demarcation point including 
wiring that may have been installed by the carrier. The customer or 
premises owner may not access carrier wiring and facilities on the 
carrier's side of the demarcation point. Customers may not access the 
telephone company-installed protector. All plugs and jacks used in 
connection with inside wiring shall conform to subpart F of this part. 
In multiunit premises with more than one customer, the premises owner 
may adopt a policy restricting a customer's access to wiring on the 
premises to only that wiring located in the customer's individual unit 
wiring that serves only that particular customer. See Demarcation point 
definition, Sec. 68.3(b)(3). The customer or premises owner may not 
access carrier wiring and facilities on the carrier's side of the 
demarcation point. Customers may not access the telephone company-
installed protector. All plugs and jacks used in connection with inside 
wiring shall conform to subpart F of this part.
    (c) Material requirements. Conductors shall have insulation with a 
1500 Volt rms breakdown rating. This rating shall be established by 
covering the jacket or sheath with at least 15 cm (6 in) (measured 
lineraly on the cable) of conductive foil, and establishing a potential 
difference between the foil and all of the individual conductors 
connected together, such potential difference gradually increased over a 
30 second time period to 1500 Volts rms, 60 Hertz, then applied 
continuously for one minute. At no time during this 90 second time 
interval shall the current between these points exceed 10 milliamperes 
peak.
    (d) Attestation. Manufacturers (or distributors or retailers, 
whichever name appears on the packaging) of non-system telephone 
premises wire shall attest in a letter to the Commission that the wire 
conforms with part 68, FCC Rules.

[ 49 FR 21734 , May 23, 1984, as amended at  50 FR 29392 , July 19, 1985;  50 FR 47548 , Nov. 19, 1985;  51 FR 944 , Jan. 9, 1986;  55 FR 28630 , July 12, 
1990;  58 FR 44907 , Aug. 25, 1993;  62 FR 36464 , July 8, 1997]