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| | HB1610 Engrossed | | LRB097 08454 KMW 48581 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 15.2a as follows:
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| 6 | | (50 ILCS 750/15.2a) (from Ch. 134, par. 45.2a)
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| 7 | | Sec. 15.2a.
The installation of or connection to a |
| 8 | | telephone
company's network of any automatic alarm, automatic |
| 9 | | alerting
device, or mechanical dialer that causes the number |
| 10 | | 9-1-1 to
be dialed in order to directly access emergency |
| 11 | | services is
prohibited in a 9-1-1 system. |
| 12 | | This Section does not apply to devices used to enable |
| 13 | | access to the 9-1-1 system for cognitively-impaired, disabled, |
| 14 | | or special needs persons in an emergency situation reported by |
| 15 | | a caregiver after initiating a missing person's report. The |
| 16 | | device must have the capability to be activated and controlled |
| 17 | | remotely by trained personnel at a service center to prevent |
| 18 | | falsely activated or repeated calls to the 9-1-1 system in a |
| 19 | | single incident. The device must have the technical capability |
| 20 | | to generate location information to the 9-1-1 system. Under no |
| 21 | | circumstances shall a device be sold for use in a geographical |
| 22 | | jurisdiction where the 9-1-1 system has not deployed wireless |
| 23 | | phase II location technology. The alerting device shall also |