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Public Act 92-0188
HB0476 Enrolled LRB9202817MWcd
AN ACT in relation to emergency telephone systems.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is
amended by changing Section 15.6 as follows:
(50 ILCS 750/15.6)
Sec. 15.6. Enhanced 9-1-1 service; business service.
(a) After June 30, 2000, or within 18 months after
enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes available, any entity that
installs or operates a private business switch service and
provides telecommunications facilities or services to
businesses shall assure that the system is connected to the
public switched network in a manner that calls to 9-1-1
result in automatic number and location identification. For
buildings having their own street address and containing
workspace of 40,000 square feet or less, location
identification shall include the building's street address.
For buildings having their own street address and containing
workspace of more than 40,000 square feet, location
identification shall include the building's street address
and one distinct location identification per 40,000 square
feet of workspace. Separate buildings containing workspace of
40,000 square feet or less having a common public street
address shall have a distinct location identification for
each building in addition to the street address.
(b) Exemptions. Buildings containing workspace of more
than 40,000 square feet are exempt from the multiple location
identification requirements of subsection (a) if the building
maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of
signaling and responding to emergencies. Those means shall
include, but not be limited to, a telephone system that
provides the physical location of 9-1-1 calls coming from
within the building. Health care facilities are presumed to
meet the requirements of this paragraph if the facilities are
staffed with medical or nursing personnel 24 hours per day
and if an alternative means of providing information about
the source of an emergency call exists. Buildings under this
exemption must provide 9-1-1 service that provides the
building's street address.
Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square
feet are exempt from subsection (a) if the building
maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of
signaling and responding to emergencies, including a
telephone system that provides the location of a 9-1-1 call
coming from within the building, and the building is serviced
by its own medical, fire and security personnel. Buildings
under this exemption are subject to emergency phone system
certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Buildings in communities not serviced by enhanced 9-1-1
service are exempt from subsection (a). 2000
Correctional institutions and facilities, as defined in
subsection (d) of Section 3-1-2 of the Unified Code of
Corrections, are exempt from subsection (a).
(c) This Act does not apply to any PBX telephone
extension that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical
signals directly between the telephone extension and the
serving PBX.
(d) An entity that violates this Section is guilty of a
business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and
not more than $5,000.
(e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or
on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person,
from seeking judicial relief, by mandamus, injunction, or
otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section.
(f) The Commission shall promulgate rules for the
administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000.
(Source: P.A. 90-819, eff. 3-23-99; 91-518, eff. 8-13-99;
revised 10-20-99.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
Passed in the General Assembly May 10, 2001.
Approved August 01, 2001.
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