Section 728.200  General Requirements

a)         The digits "9-1-1" shall be the designated emergency telephone number within the wireless system.

b)         Authorized Wireless 9-1-1 Answering Points.

1)         For the purpose of providing wireless 9-1-1 emergency services, an ETSB in operation on December 22, 1999, the effective date of the Act, that intended to serve as a primary wireless 9-1-1 answering point was to have notified the Chief Clerk of the Commission and the Director of DSP in writing of this intention by June 29, 2000.

2)         An ETSB or, in the absence of an ETSB, a qualified governmental entity may declare its intention for one or more of its PSAPs to serve as a primary wireless 9-1-1 answering point for its jurisdiction by notifying the Chief Clerk of the Commission and the Director of DSP in writing  within 6 months after receiving its authority to operate a 9-1-1 system under the Emergency Telephone System Act (see 83 Ill. Adm. Code 725).

c)         Any ETSB or qualified governmental entity providing wireless 9-1-1 service  prior to December 22, 1999 may continue to operate upon giving notification  as prescribed in subsection (b) of this Section. However, the notification to the Commission and the Director of DSP must include the date upon which it commenced handling wireless 9-1-1 service as well as file a wireless plan with the Commission pursuant to Section 728.210(c).

d)         Two or more ETSBs or qualified units of local government may, by virtue of an intergovernmental agreement, provide wireless 9-1-1 service.  The intergovernmental agreement must be submitted with the systems' wireless plan to the Commission pursuant to Section 728.210(c).

e)         DSP shall be the primary wireless 9-1-1 answering point for any jurisdiction that does not notify the Clerk of the Commission and the Director of its intention to provide wireless 9-1-1 service. However, DSP is not obligated to provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service.

1)         Commission 9-1-1 Staff shall coordinate with DSP to ensure that they are informed of the areas not being provided wireless 9-1-1 service by an authorized wireless answering point.

2)         DSP shall begin providing coverage in these areas by September 11, 2001.

3)         Upon a joint request from DSP and an ETSB or qualified governmental entity, the Commission may grant authority to an ETSB or qualified governmental entity to provide wireless 9-1-1 service in the areas for which the Department is currently providing wireless 9-1-1 services.

4)         DSP shall provide wireless 9-1-1 service as the default wireless PSAP in areas that do not currently have any wireline 9-1-1 service. In any of these areas where wireline 9-1-1 service does develop, the authorized 9-1-1 system has 6 months after receiving its authority to operate a 9-1-1 system from the Commission to send a letter of intent to handle wireless 9-1-1 calls pursuant to subsection (b). In this event, DSP and the ETSB or qualified governmental entity must follow the same procedures set forth in subsection (e)(3) in order for DSP to turn over the handling of wireless 9-1-1 calls for that particular area.

f)          All wireless 9-1-1 calls shall be directed to authorized wireless 9-1-1 answering points only.

g)         The Commission shall maintain a current list of all authorized wireless 9-1-1 answering points providing wireless 9-1-1 service under the Act. [50 ILCS 751/15]