23 CAR § 466-904. Business and residential service

(a)(1) Business and residential rates are governed by the actual and obvious use of the service. (2) In general, business rates apply to any place where substantial use of the service is business-related rather than domestic. (3) For example, business rates are applicable at the following local exchange locations: (A) Offices, stores, factories, and all other places of a strictly business nature; (B) Rental/maintenance offices and shared/public areas of boarding/rooming houses and apartment buildings, lobbies and halls of hotels, private and public institutions, business offices, colleges, clubs, lodges, schools, libraries, churches, and hospitals; and (C) At a residence where telephone use is more of a business than residential nature as indicated by advertising through newspapers, signs, circulars, business cards, etc. (b) Service to amateur radio tower locations. Service provided to amateur radio clubs at their tower locations for clubs’ autopatches shall be charged residential rates.