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1 AN ACT to amend the Emergency Telephone System Act by
2 changing Section 15.6.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended
6 by changing Section 15.6 as follows:
7 (50 ILCS 750/15.6)
8 Sec. 15.6. Enhanced 9-1-1 service; business service.
9 (a) After June 30, 2000, or within 18 months after
10 enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes available, any entity that
11 installs or operates a private business switch service and
12 provides telecommunications facilities or services to
13 businesses shall assure that the system is connected to the
14 public switched network in a manner that calls to 9-1-1
15 result in automatic number and location identification. For
16 buildings having their own street address and containing
17 workspace of 40,000 square feet or less, location
18 identification shall include the building's street address.
19 For buildings having their own street address and containing
20 workspace of more than 40,000 square feet, location
21 identification shall include the building's street address
22 and one distinct location identification per 40,000 square
23 feet of workspace. Separate buildings containing workspace of
24 40,000 square feet or less having a common public street
25 address shall have a distinct location identification for
26 each building in addition to the street address.
27 (b) Exemptions. Buildings containing workspace of more
28 than 40,000 square feet are exempt from the multiple location
29 identification requirements of subsection (a) if the building
30 maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of
31 signaling and responding to emergencies. Those means shall
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1 include a telephone system that provides the physical
2 location of 9-1-1 calls coming from within the building.
3 Buildings under this exemption must provide 9-1-1 service
4 that provides the building's street address.
5 Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square
6 feet are exempt from subsection (a) if the building
7 maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of
8 signaling and responding to emergencies, including a
9 telephone system that provides the location of a 9-1-1 call
10 coming from within the building, and the building is serviced
11 by its own medical, fire and security personnel. Buildings
12 under this exemption are subject to emergency phone system
13 certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
14 Buildings in communities not serviced by enhanced 9-1-1
15 service are exempt from subsection (a). Private business
16 switch service 9-1-1 service.
17 (a) After June 30, 1996, an entity that installs or
18 operates a new private business switch service or replaces an
19 existing private business switch service and provides
20 telecommunications facilities or services to businesses shall
21 provide to those business end users the same level of 9-1-1
22 service as the public agency and the telecommunications
23 carrier are providing to other business end users of the
24 local 9-1-1 system. This service shall include, but not be
25 limited to, the capability to identify the telephone number,
26 extension number, and the physical location that is the
27 source of the call to the number designated as the emergency
28 telephone number. After June 30, 1999, all entities
29 providing or operating a private business switch service
30 shall be in compliance with this Section.
31 (b) The private business switch operator is responsible
32 for forwarding end user automatic location identification
33 record information to the 9-1-1 system provider according to
34 the format, frequency, and procedures established by that
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1 system provider.
2 (c) This Act does not apply to any PBX telephone
3 extension that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical
4 signals directly between the telephone extension and the
5 serving PBX.
6 (d) An entity that violates this Section is guilty of a
7 business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and
8 not more than $5,000.
9 (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
10 preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or
11 on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person,
12 from seeking judicial relief, by mandamus, injunction, or
13 otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section.
14 (f) The Commission shall promulgate rules for the
15 administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000.
16
17 (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94; 89-222, eff. 1-1-96;
18 89-497, eff. 6-27-96.)
19 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
20 becoming law.
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