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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 149
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 149 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the Emergency Telephone System Act by
5 changing Section 15.6."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is
9 amended by changing Section 15.6 as follows:
10 (50 ILCS 750/15.6)
11 Sec. 15.6. Enhanced 9-1-1 service; business service.
12 (a) After June 30, 2000, or within 18 months after
13 enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes available, any entity that
14 installs or operates a private business switch service and
15 provides telecommunications facilities or services to
16 businesses shall assure that the system is connected to the
17 public switched network in a manner that calls to 9-1-1
18 result in automatic number and location identification. For
19 buildings having their own street address and containing
20 workspace of 40,000 square feet or less, location
21 identification shall include the building's street address.
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1 For buildings having their own street address and containing
2 workspace of more than 40,000 square feet, location
3 identification shall include the building's street address
4 and one distinct location identification per 40,000 square
5 feet of workspace. Separate buildings containing workspace of
6 40,000 square feet or less having a common public street
7 address shall have a distinct location identification for
8 each building in addition to the street address.
9 (b) Exemptions. Buildings containing workspace of more
10 than 40,000 square feet are exempt from the multiple location
11 identification requirements of subsection (a) if the building
12 maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of
13 signaling and responding to emergencies. Those means shall
14 include a telephone system that provides the physical
15 location of 9-1-1 calls coming from within the building.
16 Buildings under this exemption must provide 9-1-1 service
17 that provides the building's street address.
18 Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square
19 feet are exempt from subsection (a) if the building
20 maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of
21 signaling and responding to emergencies, including a
22 telephone system that provides the location of a 9-1-1 call
23 coming from within the building, and the building is serviced
24 by its own medical, fire and security personnel. Buildings
25 under this exemption are subject to emergency phone system
26 certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
27 Buildings in communities not serviced by enhanced 9-1-1
28 service are exempt from subsection (a). Private business
29 switch service 9-1-1 service.
30 (a) After June 30, 1996, an entity that installs or
31 operates a new private business switch service or replaces an
32 existing private business switch service and provides
33 telecommunications facilities or services to businesses shall
34 provide to those business end users the same level of 9-1-1
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1 service as the public agency and the telecommunications
2 carrier are providing to other business end users of the
3 local 9-1-1 system. This service shall include, but not be
4 limited to, the capability to identify the telephone number,
5 extension number, and the physical location that is the
6 source of the call to the number designated as the emergency
7 telephone number. After June 30, 1999, all entities
8 providing or operating a private business switch service
9 shall be in compliance with this Section.
10 (b) The private business switch operator is responsible
11 for forwarding end user automatic location identification
12 record information to the 9-1-1 system provider according to
13 the format, frequency, and procedures established by that
14 system provider.
15 (c) This Act does not apply to any PBX telephone
16 extension that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical
17 signals directly between the telephone extension and the
18 serving PBX.
19 (d) An entity that violates this Section is guilty of a
20 business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and
21 not more than $5,000.
22 (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
23 preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or
24 on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person,
25 from seeking judicial relief, by mandamus, injunction, or
26 otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section.
27 (f) The Commission shall promulgate rules for the
28 administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000.
29
30 (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94; 89-222, eff. 1-1-96;
31 89-497, eff. 6-27-96.)
32 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
33 becoming law.".
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