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91_SB1400
SRS91S0064SBcb
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, 2001 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, but not be limited to, a telephone system that
2 provides the physical location of 9-1-1 calls coming from
3 within the building. Health care facilities are presumed to
4 meet the requirements of this paragraph if the facilities are
5 staffed with medical or nursing personnel 24 hours per day
6 and if an alternative means of providing information about
7 the source of an emergency call exists. Buildings under this
8 exemption must provide 9-1-1 service that provides the
9 building's street address.
10 Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square
11 feet are exempt from subsection (a) if the building
12 maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of
13 signaling and responding to emergencies, including a
14 telephone system that provides the location of a 9-1-1 call
15 coming from within the building, and the building is serviced
16 by its own medical, fire and security personnel. Buildings
17 under this exemption are subject to emergency phone system
18 certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
19 Buildings in communities not serviced by enhanced 9-1-1
20 service are exempt from subsection (a).
21 (c) This Act does not apply to any PBX telephone
22 extension that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical
23 signals directly between the telephone extension and the
24 serving PBX.
25 (d) An entity that violates this Section is guilty of a
26 business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and
27 not more than $5,000.
28 (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
29 preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or
30 on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person,
31 from seeking judicial relief, by mandamus, injunction, or
32 otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section.
33 (f) The Commission shall promulgate rules for the
34 administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000.
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1 (Source: P.A. 90-819, eff. 3-23-99; 91-518, eff. 8-13-99;
2 revised 10-20-99.)
3 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4 becoming law.