2023 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 28 - Civil Preparedness and Emergency Services
Chapter 518a - Emergency Telecommunications
Section 28-27a. - Municipalities and public safety answering points to submit 9-1-1 service utilization plan.
(a) Any municipality proposing the creation of a public safety answering point or any public safety answering point proposing any change to the operation, location, jurisdiction or utilized public safety agencies of such public safety answering point shall submit a proposed 9-1-1 service utilization plan to the division for its review and approval prior to implementation. The division shall review each proposed plan to determine if it meets the requirements of sections 28-25, 28-25a, 28-25b, 28-26, 28-27, 28-28, 28-28a, 28-28b, 28-29, 28-29a and 28-29b and the technical and operational standards established pursuant to section 28-27.
(b) On or before January 1, 2017, and annually thereafter, each public safety answering point shall certify to the division, in such manner and form as prescribed by the division, that the information contained in the 9-1-1 service utilization plan is accurate.
(c) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the commission, shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 concerning the content of a 9-1-1 service utilization plan.
(P.A. 84-416, S. 6, 15; P.A. 90-230, S. 45, 101; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-12, S. 6, 10; P.A. 93-206, S. 10, 16; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; P.A. 16-150, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 90-230 deleted internal references in Subsec. (a); May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-12 amended Subsec. (b) to require public safety commissioner to adopt regulations, in consultation with commission, in lieu of bureau, subject to review and approval of commission; P.A. 93-206 substituted “office” for “bureau”, effective July 1, 1993; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 16-150 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re public safety answering point, replacing “office” with “division” and deleting provision re filing municipal plan with telephone company, amended Subsec. (b) by deleting provision re submitting plan on or before December 31, 1986, and adding provision re annual certification, redesignated existing provision in Subsec. (b) re regulations as Subsec. (c) and amended same by replacing “final” with “9-1-1 service utilization”, and made conforming changes.
Cited. 223 C. 731.
