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1 AN ACT concerning telecommunications.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act
5 is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 751/10)
7 (Section scheduled to be repealed on April 1, 2005)
8 Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
9 "Emergency telephone system board" means a board
10 appointed by the corporate authorities of any county or
11 municipality that provides for the management and operation
12 of a 9-1-1 system within the scope of the duties and powers
13 prescribed by the Emergency Telephone System Act.
14 "Master street address guide" means the computerized
15 geographical database that consists of all street and address
16 data within a 9-1-1 system.
17 "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a
18 public agency that provides fire fighting, police, medical,
19 or other emergency services. For the purpose of providing
20 wireless service to users of 9-1-1 emergency services, as
21 expressly provided for in this Act, the Department of State
22 Police may be considered a public safety agency.
23 "Qualified governmental entity" means a unit of local
24 government authorized to provide 9-1-1 services pursuant to
25 the Emergency Telephone System Act where no emergency
26 telephone system board exists.
27 "Statewide wireless emergency 9-1-1 system" means all
28 areas of the State where an emergency telephone system board
29 or, in the absence of an emergency telephone system board, a
30 qualified governmental entity has not declared its intention
31 for one or more of its public safety answering points to
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1 serve as a primary wireless 9-1-1 public safety answering
2 point for its jurisdiction. The operator of the statewide
3 wireless emergency 9-1-1 system shall be the Department of
4 State Police.
5 "Wireless carrier" means a provider of two-way cellular,
6 broadband PCS, geographic area 800 MHZ and 900 MHZ Commercial
7 Mobile Radio Service (CMRS), Wireless Communications Service
8 (WCS), or other Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS), as
9 defined by the Federal Communications Commission, offering
10 radio communications that may provide fixed, mobile, radio
11 location, or satellite communication services to individuals
12 or businesses within its assigned spectrum block and
13 geographical area or that offers real-time, two-way voice
14 service that is interconnected with the public switched
15 network, including a reseller of such service.
16 "Wireless enhanced 9-1-1" means the ability to relay the
17 telephone number of the originator of a 9-1-1 call and
18 location information and the location of the cell site or
19 base station receiving a 9-1-1 call from any mobile handset
20 or text telephone device accessing the wireless system to the
21 designated wireless public safety answering point as set
22 forth in the order of the Federal Communications Commission,
23 FCC Docket No. 94-102, adopted June 12, 1996, with an
24 effective date of October 1, 1996, and any subsequent
25 amendment thereto through the use of automatic number
26 identification and pseudo-automatic number identification.
27 "Wireless public safety answering point" means the
28 functional division of an emergency telephone system board,
29 qualified governmental entity, or the Department of State
30 Police accepting wireless 9-1-1 calls.
31 "Wireless subscriber" means an individual or entity to
32 whom a wireless service account or number has been assigned
33 by a wireless carrier.
34 (Source: P.A. 91-660, eff. 12-22-99.)