Sec. 28-25. Enhanced 9-1-1 telephone system. Definitions.
Sec. 28-25. Enhanced 9-1-1 telephone system. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 28-25a, 28-25b, 28-26, 28-27, 28-27a, 28-28, 28-28a, 28-28b, 28-29,
28-29a and 28-29b:
(1) "Automatic number identification" means an enhanced 9-1-1 service capability
that enables the automatic display of the seven digit number used to place a 9-1-1 call.
(2) "Automatic location identification" means an enhanced 9-1-1 service capability
that enables the automatic display of information defining the geographical location of
the telephone used to place a 9-1-1 call.
(3) "Office" means the Office of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications.
(4) "Commission" means the E 9-1-1 Commission created by section 28-29a.
(5) "Enhanced 9-1-1 service" means a service consisting of telephone network features and public safety answering points provided for users of the public telephone
system enabling such users to reach a public safety answering point by dialing the digits
"9-1-1". Such service directs 9-1-1 calls to appropriate public safety answering points
by selective routing based on the geographical location from which the call originated
and provides the capability for automatic number identification and automatic location
identification features.
(6) "Enhanced 9-1-1 network features" means those features of selective routing
which have the capability of automatic number and location identification.
(7) "Municipality" means any town, city, borough, consolidated town and city or
consolidated town and borough.
(8) "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a municipality or the state
which provides fire fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical or other emergency
services.
(9) "Private safety agency" means any entity, except a municipality or a public
safety agency, providing emergency fire, ambulance or medical services.
(10) "Public safety answering point" means a facility, operated on a twenty-four-hour basis, assigned the responsibility of receiving 9-1-1 calls and, as appropriate, directly dispatching emergency response services, or transferring or relaying emergency
9-1-1 calls to other public safety agencies. A public safety answering point is the first
point of reception by a public safety agency of a 9-1-1 call and serves the jurisdictions
in which it is located or other participating jurisdictions.
(11) "Selective routing" means the method employed to direct 9-1-1 calls to the
appropriate public safety answering point based on the geographical location from which
the call originated.
(12) "Telephone company" includes every corporation, company, association, joint
stock association, partnership or person, or lessee thereof, owning, leasing, maintaining,
operating, managing or controlling poles, wires, conduits or other fixtures, in, under or
over any public highway or street, for the provision of telephone exchange and other
systems and methods of telecommunications and services related thereto in or between
any or all of the municipalities of this state.
(13) "Private branch exchange" means an electronic telephone exchange installed
on the user's premises to allow internal dialing from station to station within such premises and connection to outgoing and incoming lines to the public switched network of
a telephone company.
(14) "Private safety answering point" means a facility within a private company,
corporation or institution, operated on a twenty-four-hour basis, and assigned the responsibility of receiving 9-1-1 calls routed by a private branch exchange and, directly dispatching in-house emergency response services, or transferring or relaying emergency
9-1-1 calls to other public or private safety agencies.
(15) "Emergency medical dispatch" means the management of requests for emergency medical assistance by utilizing a system of (A) tiered response or priority dispatching of emergency medical resources based on the level of medical assistance
needed by the victim, and (B) prearrival first aid or other medical instructions given by
trained personnel who are responsible for receiving 9-1-1 calls and directly dispatching
emergency response services.
(P.A. 84-416, S. 1, 15; P.A. 90-230, S. 42, 101; P.A. 91-360, S. 1, 4; P.A. 93-206, S. 6, 16; P.A. 00-151, S. 7, 14.)
History: P.A. 90-230 deleted internal reference in opening paragraph; P.A. 91-360 added Subdivs. (13) and (14) defining
"private branch exchange" and "private safety answering point"; P.A. 93-206 amended Subdiv. (3) to substitute "office"
for "bureau", effective July 1, 1993; (Revisor's note: In 1997 a reference at the beginning of the section to repealed Sec 16-19y was deleted editorially by the Revisors); P.A. 00-151 added new Subdiv. (15) defining "emergency medical dispatch",
effective July 1, 2000.
Cited. 223 C. 731.