Section 407-280-8 - ACCESS RATESA.Rate Schedules. Each local exchange carrier authorized to provide local exchange service in the State of Maine shall file and maintain rate schedules establishing that carrier's access rates pursuant to 35-A M.R.S.A. §307.B.Rates for All LECs Effective June 1, 2003 and Thereafter. No later than June 1, 2003 (or such later date as may be established by statute), all local exchange carriers shall establish intrastate access rates that are less than or equal to the interstate access rates for that carrier that are in effect on June 1, 2003 (or such other date as may be established by statute). On or before June 1 of every two years thereafter (all odd-numbered years), except to the extent that the need for subsequent changes is modified by statute, all local exchange carriers shall reestablish intrastate access rates that are less than or equal to the interstate rates for that carrier that are in effect on June 1 of that year. If a date later than June 1, 2003, is established by statute for the implementation of intrastate access rates that are less than or equal to specified interstate access rates, the Commission, by order issued in a rate proceeding or in a proceeding under Chapter 288, § 3, may require a LEC to change its access rates to a level specified by the Commission prior to the final date established by statute, provided such an order is not precluded by statute.C.Direct End-User Access Charges Prohibited. All access charges imposed by LECs shall be charged directly to interexchange carriers and no component of an access charge shall be charged by an local exchange carrier directly to an end-user.65- 407 C.M.R. ch. 280, § 8