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1 | | dollars which the amount declines with use in a known amount.
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2 | | "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a |
3 | | public agency that
provides fire fighting, police, medical, or |
4 | | other emergency services. For the
purpose of providing wireless |
5 | | service to users of 9-1-1 emergency services, as
expressly |
6 | | provided for in this Act, the Department of State Police may be
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7 | | considered a public safety agency.
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8 | | "Qualified governmental entity"
means a unit of local |
9 | | government authorized to provide 9-1-1 services
pursuant to the |
10 | | Emergency Telephone System Act where no emergency telephone
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11 | | system board exists. |
12 | | "Remit period" means the billing period, one month in |
13 | | duration, for which a wireless carrier remits a surcharge and |
14 | | provides subscriber information by zip code to the Illinois |
15 | | Commerce Commission, in accordance with Section 17 of this Act.
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16 | | "Statewide wireless emergency 9-1-1 system" means all |
17 | | areas of the State
where an emergency telephone system board |
18 | | or, in the absence of an emergency
telephone system board, a |
19 | | qualified governmental entity has not declared its
intention |
20 | | for one or more of its public safety answering points to serve |
21 | | as a
primary wireless 9-1-1 public safety answering point for |
22 | | its jurisdiction.
The operator of the statewide wireless |
23 | | emergency 9-1-1 system shall be the
Department of State Police.
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24 | | "Wireless carrier" means a provider of two-way cellular, |
25 | | broadband PCS,
geographic area 800 MHZ and 900 MHZ Commercial |
26 | | Mobile Radio Service (CMRS),
Wireless Communications Service |
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1 | | (WCS), or other Commercial Mobile Radio Service
(CMRS), as |
2 | | defined by the Federal Communications Commission, offering |
3 | | radio
communications that may provide fixed, mobile, radio |
4 | | location, or satellite
communication services to individuals |
5 | | or businesses within its assigned
spectrum block and |
6 | | geographical area or that offers real-time, two-way voice
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7 | | service that is interconnected with the public switched |
8 | | network, including a
reseller of such service.
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9 | | "Wireless enhanced 9-1-1" means the ability to relay the |
10 | | telephone number
of the originator of a 9-1-1 call and location |
11 | | information from any mobile handset or text telephone
device |
12 | | accessing the wireless system to the designated wireless public |
13 | | safety
answering point as set forth in the order of the Federal |
14 | | Communications
Commission, FCC Docket No. 94-102, adopted June |
15 | | 12, 1996, with an effective
date of October 1, 1996, and any |
16 | | subsequent amendment thereto.
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17 | | "Wireless public safety answering point" means the |
18 | | functional division of
an emergency telephone system board, |
19 | | qualified governmental entity, or the
Department of State |
20 | | Police accepting wireless 9-1-1 calls.
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21 | | "Wireless subscriber" means an individual or entity to whom |
22 | | a wireless
service account or number has been assigned by a |
23 | | wireless carrier, other than an account or number associated |
24 | | with prepaid wireless telecommunication service.
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25 | | (Source: P.A. 97-463, eff. 1-1-12 .)
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