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1 | AN ACT concerning utilities.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 13-900 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | (220 ILCS 5/13-900) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | Sec. 13-900. Authority to serve as 9-1-1 system provider; | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | rules. | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | (a) The General Assembly finds that it is necessary to | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | require the certification of 9-1-1 system providers to ensure | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | the safety of the lives and property of Illinoisans and | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | Illinois businesses, and to otherwise protect and promote the | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | public safety, health, and welfare of the citizens of this | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | State and their property. | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | (b) For purposes of this Section: | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | "9-1-1 system" has the same meaning as that term is | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | defined in Section 2.19 of the Emergency Telephone System | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | "9-1-1 system provider" means any person, corporation, | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | limited liability company, partnership, sole | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | proprietorship, or entity of any description whatever that | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | acts as a system provider within the meaning of Section |
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1 | 2.18 of the Emergency Telephone System Act. | ||||||
2 | "Emergency Telephone System Board" has the same | ||||||
3 | meaning as that term is defined in Sections 2.11 and 15.4 | ||||||
4 | of the Emergency Telephone System Act. | ||||||
5 | "Public safety agency personnel" means personnel | ||||||
6 | employed by a public safety agency, as that term is defined | ||||||
7 | in Section 2.02 of the Emergency Telephone System Act, | ||||||
8 | whose responsibilities include responding to requests for | ||||||
9 | emergency services. | ||||||
10 | (c) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, beginning | ||||||
11 | July 1, 2010, it is unlawful for any 9-1-1 system provider to | ||||||
12 | offer or provide or seek to offer or provide to any emergency | ||||||
13 | telephone system board or 9-1-1 system, or agent, | ||||||
14 | representative, or designee thereof, any network and database | ||||||
15 | service used or intended to be used by any emergency telephone | ||||||
16 | system board or 9-1-1 system for the purpose of answering, | ||||||
17 | transferring, or relaying requests for emergency services, or | ||||||
18 | dispatching public safety agency personnel in response to | ||||||
19 | requests for emergency services, unless the 9-1-1 system | ||||||
20 | provider has applied for and received a Certificate of 9-1-1 | ||||||
21 | System Provider Authority from the Commission. The Commission | ||||||
22 | shall approve an application for a Certificate of 9-1-1 System | ||||||
23 | Provider Authority upon a showing by the applicant, and a | ||||||
24 | finding by the Commission, after notice and hearing, that the | ||||||
25 | applicant possesses sufficient technical, financial, and | ||||||
26 | managerial resources and abilities to provide network service |
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1 | and database services that it seeks authority to provide in its | ||||||
2 | application for service authority, in a safe, continuous, and | ||||||
3 | uninterrupted manner. | ||||||
4 | (d) No incumbent local exchange carrier that provides, as | ||||||
5 | of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th | ||||||
6 | General Assembly, any 9-1-1 network and 9-1-1 database service | ||||||
7 | used or intended to be used by any Emergency Telephone System | ||||||
8 | Board or 9-1-1 system, shall be required to obtain a | ||||||
9 | Certificate of 9-1-1 System Provider Authority under this | ||||||
10 | Section. No entity that possesses, as of the effective date of | ||||||
11 | this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, a Certificate | ||||||
12 | of Service Authority and provides 9-1-1 network and 9-1-1 | ||||||
13 | database services to any incumbent local exchange carrier as of | ||||||
14 | the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | ||||||
15 | Assembly shall be required to obtain a Certificate of 9-1-1 | ||||||
16 | System Provider Authority under this Section. | ||||||
17 | (e) Any and all enforcement authority granted to the | ||||||
18 | Commission under this Section shall apply exclusively to 9-1-1 | ||||||
19 | system providers granted a Certificate of Service Authority | ||||||
20 | under this Section and shall not apply to incumbent local | ||||||
21 | exchange carriers that are providing 9-1-1 service as of the | ||||||
22 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | ||||||
23 | Assembly. | ||||||
24 | (f) This Section does not apply to a not-for-profit entity | ||||||
25 | that is involved in a regional pilot project to implement Next | ||||||
26 | Generation 9-1-1 based on the Research and Innovative |
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1 | Technology Administration in the United States Department of | ||||||
2 | Transportation.
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3 | (Source: P.A. 96-25, eff. 6-30-09.)
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4 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
5 | becoming law.
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