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H. B. No. 148 As IntroducedAs Introduced
128th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2009-2010 |
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A BILL
To amend section 4931.40 and to enact section 4931.55
of the Revised Code to require certain
technological improvements and updates for 9-1-1
systems in Ohio.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 4931.40 be amended and section
4931.55 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 4931.40. As used in sections 4931.40 to
4931.70 of
the
Revised Code:
(A) "9-1-1 system" means a system through which
individuals
can request emergency service using the telephone
number 9-1-1.
(B) "Basic 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system in which a caller
provides information on the nature of and the location of an
emergency, and the personnel receiving the call must determine
the
appropriate emergency service provider to respond at that
location.
(C) "Enhanced 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system capable of
providing both enhanced wireline 9-1-1 and wireless enhanced
9-1-1.
(D) "Enhanced wireline 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system in which
the
wireline telephone network, in providing wireline 9-1-1,
automatically routes the call to emergency service
providers that
serve the location from which the call is made and
immediately
provides to personnel answering the 9-1-1 call
information on the
location and the telephone number from which the call is
being
made.
(E) "Wireless enhanced 9-1-1"
means a 9-1-1 system that, in
providing wireless 9-1-1, has the
capabilities of phase
I and, to
the extent available,
phase
II enhanced 9-1-1 services as
described in 47
C.F.R.
20.18 (d) to (h).
(F)(1) "Wireless
service" means federally licensed commercial
mobile service as
defined in 47
U.S.C.
332(d) and further defined
as commercial
mobile radio service in 47
C.F.R.
20.3, and includes
service provided by any wireless, two-way communications
device,
including a radio-telephone communications line used in cellular
telephone service or personal communications service, a network
radio access
line, or any functional or competitive equivalent of
such a radio-telephone
communications or network radio access
line.
(2) Nothing in sections 4931.40 to 4931.70 of the Revised
Code applies to paging or any service that cannot be used to call
9-1-1.
(G) "Wireless service
provider" means a facilities-based
provider of
wireless service to one or more end users in this
state.
(H) "Wireless 9-1-1"
means the emergency calling service
provided by a 9-1-1
system pursuant to a call originating in the
network of a
wireless service provider.
(I) "Wireline 9-1-1"
means the emergency calling service
provided by a 9-1-1
system pursuant to a call originating in the
network of a
wireline service provider.
(J) "Wireline service provider" means a
facilities-based
provider of wireline service to one or more end-users in this
state.
(K) "Wireline
service" means basic local exchange service, as
defined in
section 4927.01 of the Revised
Code, that is
transmitted by means of interconnected wires or
cables by a
wireline service provider authorized by the public utilities
commission.
(L) "Wireline telephone network" means the selective router
and data base processing systems, trunking and data wiring cross
connection points at the public safety answering point, and all
other voice and data components of the 9-1-1 system.
(M) "Subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation,
township, township fire district, joint fire district, township
police district, joint ambulance district, or joint
emergency
medical services district that provides
emergency service within
its territory, or that contracts with
another municipal
corporation, township, or district or with a
private entity to
provide such service; and a state college or
university, port
authority, or park district of any kind that
employs law
enforcement officers that act as the primary police
force on the
grounds of the college or university or port
authority or in the
parks operated by the district.
(N) "Emergency service" means emergency law enforcement,
firefighting, ambulance, rescue, and medical service.
(O) "Emergency service provider" means the state highway
patrol and an emergency service department or unit of a
subdivision or that provides emergency service to a subdivision
under contract with
the subdivision.
(P) "Public safety answering point" means a facility to
which
9-1-1 system calls for a specific territory are initially
routed
for response and where personnel respond to
specific requests for
emergency service by directly dispatching
the appropriate
emergency service provider, relaying a message to
the appropriate
provider, or transferring the call to the
appropriate provider.
(Q) "Customer premises equipment" means telecommunications
equipment, including telephone instruments, on the premises of a
public safety answering point that is used in answering and
responding to 9-1-1 system calls.
(R) "Municipal corporation in the county" includes any
municipal corporation that is wholly contained in the county and
each municipal corporation located in more than one county that
has a greater proportion of its territory in the county to which
the term refers than in any other county.
(S) "Board of county commissioners" includes the
legislative
authority of a county established under Section 3 of
Article X,
Ohio Constitution, or Chapter 302. of the Revised
Code.
(T) "Final plan" means a final plan adopted under division
(B) of section 4931.44 of the Revised Code and, except as
otherwise expressly provided, an amended final plan adopted under
section 4931.45 of the Revised Code.
(U) "Subdivision served by a public safety answering
point"
means a subdivision that provides emergency service for
any part
of its territory that is located within the territory of
a public
safety answering point whether the subdivision provides
the
emergency service with its own employees or pursuant to a
contract.
(V) A township's population includes only population of
the
unincorporated portion of the township.
(W) "Telephone company" means a company engaged in the
business of providing
local
exchange telephone service by making
available or furnishing access and a dial
tone to persons within a
local calling area for use in originating and
receiving voice
grade communications over a switched network operated by the
provider of the service within the area and gaining access to
other
telecommunications services. "Telephone company" includes a
wireline service provider
and a wireless service provider unless
otherwise expressly specified. For purposes of
sections 4931.52
and 4931.53 of the
Revised
Code, "telephone company" means
a
wireline service provider.
(X) "Communications instrument" means any electronic machine
or device that is capable of transmitting data between two or more
persons or from one person to another person, including devices
transmitting voice, text, photographic, video, and telematic data.
(Y) "Automatic collision notification" means a type of
telematic data sent from a motor vehicle containing information
regarding an accident involving the vehicle.
(Z) "Telematic data" means data in a form that combines
telecommunications and computer technology and includes automatic
collision notification.
Sec. 4931.55. Each subdivision operating a public safety
answering point, in consultation with the Ohio 9-1-1 coordinator,
the Ohio 9-1-1 council, the wireless 9-1-1 advisory board, and the
public utilities commission, shall update and improve its customer
premises equipment to do all of the following:
(A) Receive data from every type of communications
instrument;
(B) Determine the physical location of a person placing a
call to the 9-1-1 system using a wireline service, a wireless
service, voice over internet protocol technology, or any other
major emerging telephone technology in common use and, based on
the caller's physical location, automatically transfer or route
the call to the appropriate emergency service provider;
(C) Increase access to the 9-1-1 system for the hearing
impaired;
(D) Send alerts to portable communications instruments
approaching the physical locations of emergencies notifying their
users of such emergencies.
Section 2. That existing section 4931.40 of the Revised Code
is hereby repealed.
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