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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the Emergency Telephone System Act by
 2    changing Section 15.6.

 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended
 6    by changing Section 15.6 as follows:

 7        (50 ILCS 750/15.6)
 8        Sec. 15.6.  Enhanced 9-1-1 service;  business service.
 9        (a)  After  June 30, 2001 2000, or within 18 months after
10    enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes  available,  any  entity  that
11    installs  or  operates  a private business switch service and
12    provides  telecommunications  facilities   or   services   to
13    businesses  shall  assure that the system is connected to the
14    public switched network in  a  manner  that  calls  to  9-1-1
15    result  in automatic number and location identification.  For
16    buildings having their  own  street  address  and  containing
17    workspace   of   40,000   square   feet   or  less,  location
18    identification shall include the building's  street  address.
19    For  buildings having their own street address and containing
20    workspace  of  more  than  40,000   square   feet,   location
21    identification  shall  include  the building's street address
22    and one distinct location identification  per  40,000  square
23    feet of workspace. Separate buildings containing workspace of
24    40,000  square  feet  or  less  having a common public street
25    address shall have a  distinct  location  identification  for
26    each building in addition to the street address.
27        (b)  Exemptions.   Buildings containing workspace of more
28    than 40,000 square feet are exempt from the multiple location
29    identification requirements of subsection (a) if the building
30    maintains, at all times, alternative and  adequate  means  of
31    signaling  and  responding to emergencies.  Those means shall
 
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 1    include, but not be  limited  to,  a  telephone  system  that
 2    provides  the  physical  location  of 9-1-1 calls coming from
 3    within the building.  Health care facilities are presumed  to
 4    meet the requirements of this paragraph if the facilities are
 5    staffed  with  medical  or nursing personnel 24 hours per day
 6    and if an alternative means of  providing  information  about
 7    the  source of an emergency call exists. Buildings under this
 8    exemption  must  provide  9-1-1  service  that  provides  the
 9    building's street address.
10        Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square
11    feet  are  exempt  from  subsection  (a)  if   the   building
12    maintains,  at  all  times, alternative and adequate means of
13    signaling  and  responding  to   emergencies,   including   a
14    telephone  system  that provides the location of a 9-1-1 call
15    coming from within the building, and the building is serviced
16    by its own medical, fire and security  personnel.   Buildings
17    under  this  exemption  are subject to emergency phone system
18    certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
19        Buildings in communities not serviced by  enhanced  9-1-1
20    service are exempt from subsection (a).
21        (c)  This  Act  does  not  apply  to  any  PBX  telephone
22    extension  that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical
23    signals directly between  the  telephone  extension  and  the
24    serving PBX.
25        (d)  An  entity that violates this Section is guilty of a
26    business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000  and
27    not more than $5,000.
28        (e)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  to
29    preclude  the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or
30    on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person,
31    from seeking judicial relief,  by  mandamus,  injunction,  or
32    otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section.
33        (f)  The   Commission  shall  promulgate  rules  for  the
34    administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000.
 
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 1    (Source: P.A. 90-819, eff.  3-23-99;  91-518,  eff.  8-13-99;
 2    revised 10-20-99.)

 3        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 4    becoming law.

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