The commission shall require any regulated landline telephone corporation providing local exchange service to sell or lease special telecommunication equipment to a person certified as deaf or hard of hearing where the addition of such equipment is necessary to enable such person to access and utilize the local exchange network. The sale of such equipment shall be at an amount not to exceed the actual purchase price by the corporation and the lease of such equipment shall be at a rate to be determined by the commission. Any person who leases such equipment shall be permitted to apply the lease payments toward the equipment's purchase.
N.Y. Pub. Serv. Law § 92-A