65.7621 Definitions for KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643.
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65.7621 Definitions for KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643.
As used in KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643, unless the context requires otherwise: <br>(1) "Administrator" means the state administrator of CMRS emergency
telecommunications under KRS 65.7625;
(2) "Automatic location identification", or "ALI" means an enhanced 911 service
capability that enables the automatic display of information defining the <br>approximate geographic location of the wireless telephone used to place a 911 call <br>and includes the term "pseudo-automatic number identification;"
(3) "Automatic number identification", or "ANI" means an enhanced 911 service
capability that enables the automatic display on an ALI screen of the ten-digit, or <br>equivalent, wireless telephone number used to place a 911 call;
(4) "CMRS" means commercial mobile radio service under Sections 3(27) and 332(d)
of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. secs. 151 et seq., and <br>the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, as it existed on August 10, 1993. <br>The term includes the term "wireless" and service provided by any wireless real <br>time two-way voice communication device, including radio-telephone <br>communications used in cellular telephone service, personal communications <br>service, and the functional or competitive equivalent of a radio-telephone <br>communications line used in cellular telephone service, a personal communications <br>service, or a network radio access line;
(5) "CMRS Board" or "board" means the Commercial Mobile Radio Service
Emergency Telecommunications Board of Kentucky;
(6) "CMRS connection" means a mobile handset telephone number assigned to a
CMRS customer;
(7) "CMRS customer" means an end user to whom a mobile handset telephone number
is assigned and to whom CMRS is provided in return for compensation;
(8) "CMRS Fund" means the commercial mobile radio service emergency
telecommunications fund;
(9) "CMRS provider" means a person or entity who provides CMRS to an end user.
The term includes both facilities-based resellers and nonfacilities-based resellers;
(10) "CMRS service charge" means the CMRS emergency telephone service charge
levied under KRS 65.7629(3) and collected under KRS 65.7635;
(11) "FCC order" means the Order of the Federal Communications Commission, FCC
Docket No. 94-102, adopted effective October 1, 1996, including any subsequent <br>amendments or modifications thereof;
(12) "Local exchange carrier" or "LEC" means any person or entity who is authorized to
provide telephone exchange service or exchange access in the Commonwealth;
(13) "Local government" means any city, county, charter county, or urban-county
government of the Commonwealth, or any other governmental entity maintaining a <br>PSAP;
(14) "Mobile telephone handset telephone number" means the ten (10) digit number
assigned to a CMRS connection;
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(15) "Proprietary information" means information held as private property, including
customer lists and other related information, technology descriptions, technical <br>information, or trade secrets;
(16) "Pseudo-automatic number identification" means a wireless enhanced 911 service
capability that enables the automatic display of the number of the cell site or cell <br>face;
(17) "Public safety answering point" or "PSAP" means a communications facility that is
assigned the responsibility to receive 911 calls originating in a given area and, as <br>appropriate, to dispatch public safety services or to extend, transfer, or relay 911 <br>calls to appropriate public safety agencies;
(18) "Service supplier" means a person or entity who provides local exchange telephone
service to a telephone subscriber;
(19) "Wireless enhanced 911 system," "wireless E911 system," "wireless enhanced 911
service," or "wireless E911 service" means an emergency telephone system that <br>provides the end user of the CMRS connection with wireless 911 service and, in <br>addition, directs 911 calls to appropriate public safety answering points based on the <br>geographical location from which the call originated and provides the capability for <br>automatic number identification and automatic location identification features in <br>accordance with the requirements of the FCC order; and
(20) "Tier III CMRS provider" means a non-nationwide Commercial Mobile Radio
Service provider with no more than five hundred thousand (500,000) subscribers as <br>of December 31, 2001.
Effective: June 25, 2009 <br>History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 33, effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 219, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 85, sec. 92, effective June 20, 2005. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 535, sec. 1, <br>effective July 15, 1998.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/25/2009). This statute, as amended by 2009
Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 33, contained a reference in subsection (1) to "Section 4 of this <br>Act," a statute codified at KRS 42.724. After consultation with the drafter and <br>examination of the materials in the bill folder, the reference has been replaced with <br>"KRS 65.7625" (Section 34 of that Act) by the Reviser of Statutes during <br>codification to correct a manifest clerical or typographical error. This correction has <br>been made under the authority of KRS 7.136(1).
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 193, sec. 14,
instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and <br>officers whose names have been changed in the Act, as it confirms reorganization <br>within the executive branch and establishes the Kentucky Office of Homeland <br>Security. Such a correction has been made in this section.
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