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 1        AN ACT concerning emergency services.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended
 5    by changing Section 15.6 as follows:

 6        (50 ILCS 750/15.6)
 7        Sec. 15.6.  Enhanced 9-1-1 service;  business service.
 8        (a)  After June 30,  2000,  or  within  18  months  after
 9    enhanced  9-1-1  service  becomes  available, any entity that
10    installs or operates a new private  business  switch  service
11    and  provides  telecommunications  facilities  or services to
12    businesses shall assure that the system is connected  to  the
13    public  switched  network  in  a  manner  that calls to 9-1-1
14    result in automatic number and location identification.   For
15    buildings  having  their  own  street  address and containing
16    workspace  of  40,000   square   feet   or   less,   location
17    identification  shall  include the building's street address.
18    For buildings having their own street address and  containing
19    workspace   of   more   than  40,000  square  feet,  location
20    identification shall include the  building's  street  address
21    and  one  distinct  location identification per 40,000 square
22    feet of workspace. Separate buildings containing workspace of
23    40,000 square feet or less  having  a  common  public  street
24    address  shall  have  a  distinct location identification for
25    each building in addition to the street address.
26        (b)  Exemptions.  Buildings containing workspace of  more
27    than 40,000 square feet are exempt from the multiple location
28    identification requirements of subsection (a) if the building
29    maintains,  at  all  times, alternative and adequate means of
30    signaling and responding to emergencies.  Those  means  shall
31    include,  but  not  be  limited  to,  a telephone system that
 
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 1    provides the physical location of  9-1-1  calls  coming  from
 2    within  the building.  Health care facilities are presumed to
 3    meet the requirements of this paragraph if the facilities are
 4    staffed with medical or nursing personnel 24  hours  per  day
 5    and  if  an  alternative means of providing information about
 6    the source of an emergency call exists. Buildings under  this
 7    exemption  must  provide  9-1-1  service  that  provides  the
 8    building's street address.
 9        Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square
10    feet   are   exempt  from  subsection  (a)  if  the  building
11    maintains, at all times, alternative and  adequate  means  of
12    signaling   and   responding   to  emergencies,  including  a
13    telephone system that provides the location of a  9-1-1  call
14    coming from within the building, and the building is serviced
15    by  its  own medical, fire and security personnel.  Buildings
16    under this exemption are subject to  emergency  phone  system
17    certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
18        Buildings  in  communities not serviced by enhanced 9-1-1
19    service are exempt from subsection (a).  2000
20        (c)  This  Act  does  not  apply  to  any  PBX  telephone
21    extension that uses radio transmissions to convey  electrical
22    signals  directly  between  the  telephone  extension and the
23    serving PBX.
24        (d)  An entity that violates this Section is guilty of  a
25    business  offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and
26    not more than $5,000.
27        (e)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  to
28    preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission  or
29    on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person,
30    from  seeking  judicial  relief,  by mandamus, injunction, or
31    otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section.
32        (f)  The  Commission  shall  promulgate  rules  for   the
33    administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000.
34    (Source:  P.A.  90-819,  eff.  3-23-99; 91-518, eff. 8-13-99;
 
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 1    revised 10-20-99.)

 2        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 3    becoming law.

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