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92_HB4049
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1 AN ACT concerning wireless emergency calls.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act
5 is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 751/10)
7 (Section scheduled to be repealed on April 1, 2005)
8 Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
9 "Emergency telephone system board" means a board
10 appointed by the corporate authorities of any county or
11 municipality that provides for the management and operation
12 of a 9-1-1 system within the scope of the duties and powers
13 prescribed by the Emergency Telephone System Act.
14 "Master street address guide" means the computerized
15 geographical database that consists of all street and address
16 data within a 9-1-1 system.
17 "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a
18 public agency that provides fire fighting, police, medical,
19 or other emergency services. For the purpose of providing
20 wireless service to users of 9-1-1 emergency services, as
21 expressly provided for in this Act, the Department of State
22 Police may be considered a public safety agency.
23 "Qualified governmental entity" means a unit of local
24 government authorized to provide 9-1-1 services pursuant to
25 the Emergency Telephone System Act where no emergency
26 telephone system board exists.
27 "Statewide wireless emergency 9-1-1 system" means all
28 areas of the State where an emergency telephone system board
29 or, in the absence of an emergency telephone system board, a
30 qualified governmental entity has not declared its intention
31 for one or more of its public safety answering points to
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1 serve as a primary wireless 9-1-1 public safety answering
2 point for its jurisdiction. The operator of the statewide
3 wireless emergency 9-1-1 system shall be the Department of
4 State Police.
5 "Wireless carrier" means a provider of two-way cellular,
6 broadband PCS, geographic area 800 MHZ and 900 MHZ Commercial
7 Mobile Radio Service (CMRS), Wireless Communications Service
8 (WCS), or other Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS), as
9 defined by the Federal Communications Commission, offering
10 radio communications that may provide fixed, mobile, radio
11 location, or satellite communication services to individuals
12 or businesses within its assigned spectrum block and
13 geographical area or that offers real-time, two-way voice
14 service that is interconnected with the public switched
15 network, including a reseller of such service.
16 "Wireless enhanced 9-1-1" means the ability to relay the
17 telephone number of the originator of a 9-1-1 call and the
18 location of the cell site or base station receiving a 9-1-1
19 call from any mobile handset or text telephone device
20 accessing the wireless system to the designated wireless
21 public safety answering point through the use of automatic
22 number identification and pseudo-automatic number
23 identification.
24 "Wireless public safety answering point" means the
25 functional division of an emergency telephone system board,
26 qualified governmental entity, or the Department of State
27 Police accepting wireless 9-1-1 calls.
28 "Wireless subscriber" means an individual or entity to
29 whom a wireless service account or number has been assigned
30 by a wireless carrier.
31 (Source: P.A. 91-660, eff. 12-22-99.)