12-5322. Definitions.
12-5322
12-5322. Definitions. As used in the wireless enhanced 911 act, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Advisory board" means the wireless enhanced 911 advisory board established under K.S.A. 2009 Supp. 12-5326, and amendments thereto.
(b) "Automatic number identification" means a feature by which a person calling a public safety answering point has such person's 10-digit telephone number simultaneously forwarded to the public safety answering point and to the public safety answering point's display and transfer.
(c) "Eligible municipality" means: (1) Any county having a population of less than 75,000 or any city located within such a county; or (2) any two or more such counties or cities.
(d) "Emergency telephone service" means a telephone system utilizing a single three digit number "911" for reporting police, fire, medical or other emergency situations.
(e) "Enhanced 911 service" means an emergency telephone service that generally may provide, but is not limited to, selective routing, automatic number identification and automatic location identification features.
(f) "Exchange access facilities" means all facilities provided by the service supplier for the facility which provides local telephone exchange access to a service user.
(g) "Fund" means the wireless enhanced 911 grant fund established by this act.
(h) "Governing body" means the board of county commissioners of a county or the governing body of a city.
(i) "Local collection point administrator" means the statewide association of cities as established by K.S.A. 12-1610e, and amendments thereto, and the statewide association of counties as established by K.S.A. 19-2690, and amendments thereto.
(j) "Mobile telephone number" means the telephone number assigned to a wireless telephone at the time of initial activation.
(k) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, copartnership, joint venture, association, cooperative organization, corporation, municipal or private, and whether organized for profit or not, state, county, political subdivision, state department, commission, board, bureau or fraternal organization, nonprofit organization, estate, trust, business or common law trust, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, trustee or trustee in bankruptcy or any other legal entity.
(l) "Prepaid wireless telephone service" means wireless telephone service that is activated in advance by payment for a finite dollar amount of service or for a finite set of minutes that terminate either upon use by a customer and delivery by the wireless provider of an agreed-upon amount of service corresponding to the total dollar amount paid in advance or within a certain period of time following the initial purchase or activation, unless additional payments are made.
(m) "Primary place of use" has the meaning provided in the mobile telecommunications act (4 U.S.C. 116, et seq., as in effect on the effective date of this act).
(n) "Project" means the development and acquisition of the necessary improvements in order to facilitate the establishment of wireless enhanced 911 service.
(o) "Project costs" means all costs or expenses which are necessary or incident to a project and which are directly attributable thereto.
(p) "PSAP" means public safety answering point.
(q) "Pseudo-automatic number identification" means a feature by which automatic number identification is provided to a public safety answering point of the 10-digit telephone number of the specific cell site or cell site sector from which a wireless call originated.
(r) "Public agency" means any city, county, municipal corporation, public district or public authority located in whole or in part within this state which provides or has authority to provide fire fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, emergency medical or other emergency services.
(s) "Secretary" means the secretary of administration.
(t) "Service supplier" means any person providing exchange telephone service to any service user in this state.
(u) "Service user" means any person who is provided exchange telephone service or wireless service in this state.
(v) "Subscriber account" means the 10-digit access number assigned to a wireless service customer regardless of whether more than one such number is aggregated for the purpose of billing a service user.
(w) "Tariff rate" means the rate or rates billed by a service supplier and as stated in the service supplier's tariffs, approved by the state corporation commission which represent the service supplier's recurring charges for exchange access facilities or their equivalent, exclusive of all taxes, fees, licenses or similar charges whatsoever.
(x) "Valid request" means a request to a wireless carrier for wireless enhanced 911 service, made by a PSAP which is capable of receiving and utilizing the data elements associated with wireless enhanced 911 service as determined in accordance with 47 CFR 20.18 (October 1, 2002).
(y) "Wholesaler of prepaid wireless service" means a person who purchases at wholesale wireless service from a wireless carrier for resale as prepaid wireless service.
(z) "Wireless automatic location identification information" means a feature by which information is provided to a public safety answering point identifying the location of a 911 caller within the parameters established by the federal communications commission.
(aa) "Wireless carrier" means any common, private or other radio carrier licensed by the federal communications commission to provide two-way voice service in this state which provides interconnection to the public switched telephone network and access to a 24-hour answering point.
(bb) "Wireless enhanced 911 grant fee" means the fee imposed under K.S.A. 2009 Supp. 12-5324, and amendments thereto.
(cc) "Wireless enhanced 911 local fee" means the fee imposed under K.S.A. 2009 Supp. 12-5330, and amendments thereto.
(dd) "Wireless enhanced 911 service" means a communication service by which wireless carriers can provide automatic number identification, pseudo-automatic number identification and wireless automatic location identification information to a requesting PSAP, as defined in FCC docket 94-102, which is capable of receiving and utilizing the data elements associated with wireless enhanced 911 service.
(ee) "Wireless service" means a two-way voice service provided by a wireless carrier.
History: L. 2004, ch. 72, § 2; Apr. 22.