2005 Idaho Code - 31-4802 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  31
                           COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW
                                  CHAPTER 48
                         EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS ACT
    31-4802.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
    (1)  "Access line" means any telephone line, trunk line, network access
register, dedicated radio signal, or equivalent that provides switched
telecommunications access to a consolidated emergency communications system
from either a service address or a place of primary use within this state. In
the case of wireless technology, each active dedicated telephone number shall
be considered a single access line.
    (2)  "Administrator" means the person, officer or agency designated to
operate a consolidated emergency communications system, and to receive funds
for such an operation.
    (3)  "Basic consolidated emergency system" means consolidated emergency
systems that are not enhanced.
    (4)  "Consolidated emergency communications system" means facilities,
equipment and dispatching services directly related to establishing,
maintaining, or enhancing a 911 emergency communications service.
    (5)  "Emergency communications fee" means the fee provided for in section
31-4803, Idaho Code.
    (6)  "Enhanced consolidated emergency system" means consolidated emergency
systems that provide enhanced wireless 911 service and include, but are not
limited to, the technological capability to provide call back numbers, cell
site locations, and the location of calls by latitude and longitude and made
through the systems of wireless carriers.
    (7)  "Governing board" means the joint powers board, if the 911 service
area is a multicounty area, or the board of county commissioners of the county
or the city council if the 911 service area is a city, or both the board of
county commissioners and the city council if the 911 service area includes
both city and county residents but not the entire county.
    (8)  "911 service area" means a regional, multicounty, county or area
other than a whole county in which area the residents have voted to establish
a consolidated emergency communications system.
    (9)  "Place of primary use" means the residential street address or the
primary business street address in Idaho where the customer's use of the
wireless service primarily occurs.
    (10) "Telecommunications provider" means any person providing exchange
telephone service to a service address within this state or any wireless
carrier providing telecommunications service to any customer having a place of
primary use within this state.
    (11) "Wireless carrier" means a cellular licensee, a personal
communications service licensee, and certain specialized mobile radio
providers designated as covered carriers by the federal communications
commission in 47 CFR 20.18 and any successor to such rule.