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91_SB1400eng SB1400 Engrossed SRS91S0064SBcb 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, 20012000, 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 SB1400 Engrossed -2- SRS91S0064SBcb 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. SB1400 Engrossed -3- SRS91S0064SBcb 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.