2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 65 - General provisions applicable to counties, cities, and other local units 65.7621 Definitions for KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643.
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65.7621 Definitions for KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643.
As used in KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Administrator" means the person who serves as the state 911 coordinator, the
executive director of the Kentucky 911 Services Board, and the state administrator
of CMRS emergency telecommunications under KRS 65.7625;
(2) "Automatic location identification", or "ALI" means a feature by which the location
or estimated location of the calling party is made available to a PSAP in accordance
with applicable FCC rules and regulations;
(3) "Automatic number identification", or "ANI" means a feature that allows for the
automatic display of the 911 caller's ten-digit number, or equivalent, in accordance
with applicable FCC rules and regulations;
(4) "CMRS" means commercial mobile radio service under Sections 3(27) and 332(d)
of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. secs. 151 et seq., and
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, as it existed on August 10, 1993.
The term includes the term "wireless" and service provided by any wireless real
time two-way voice communication device, including radio-telephone
communications used in cellular telephone service, personal communications
service, and the functional or competitive equivalent of a radio-telephone
communications line used in cellular telephone service, a personal communications
service, or a network radio access line;
(5) "Board" means the Kentucky 911 Services Board;
(6) "CMRS connection" means a mobile handset telephone number assigned to a
CMRS customer;
(7) "CMRS customer" means an end user to whom a mobile handset telephone number
is assigned and to whom CMRS is provided in return for compensation;
(8) "CMRS Fund" means the commercial mobile radio service emergency
telecommunications fund;
(9) "CMRS provider" means a person or entity who provides CMRS to an end user.
The term includes both facilities-based resellers and nonfacilities-based resellers;
(10) "CMRS service charges" means the CMRS postpaid service charge, the CMRS
prepaid service charge, and the CMRS service charge fee levied under KRS
65.7636;
(11) "CMRS postpaid service charge" means the CMRS emergency telephone service
charge fee levied under KRS 65.7629(3) and collected under KRS 65.7635;
(12) "CMRS prepaid service charge" means the fee imposed on prepaid wireless
telecommunications service under KRS 65.7634 and collected under KRS 142.100
to 142.135;
(13) "FCC order" means the Order of the Federal Communications Commission, FCC
Docket No. 94-102, adopted effective October 1, 1996, including any subsequent
amendments or modifications thereof;
(14) "Local exchange carrier" or "LEC" means any person or entity who is authorized to
provide telephone exchange service or exchange access in the Commonwealth;
(15) "Local government" means any city, county, charter county, or urban-county
government of the Commonwealth, or any other governmental entity maintaining a
PSAP;
(16) "Mobile telephone handset telephone number" means the ten (10) digit number
assigned to a CMRS connection;
(17) "Next generation 911" means a 911 system where any device capable of making a
911 emergency request uses digital technology through managed emergency
services Internet protocol networks composed of functional elements and databases
that replicate enhanced 911 features and functions while providing additional
multimedia capabilities for the PSAP. "Next generation 911" includes any
technology, functions, capabilities, best practices, or processes, either currently
existing or later developed, that will be used during and after the transition of the
delivery of 911 services from analog to digital technology;
(18) "Prepaid
wireless
telecommunications
service"
means
a
wireless
telecommunications service that, if purchased, is required to be paid for in advance
and is either sold in predetermined units, dollars, or time which decline with use in
a known amount, or is sold for unlimited use during a predetermined period of time;
"Prepaid wireless telecommunications service" includes service provided by prepaid
wireless providers approved as eligible telecommunications companies by the
Kentucky Public Service Commission to participate in the wireless low-income
Lifeline program;
(19) "Prepaid wireless telecommunications service provider" means a person or entity
that provides prepaid wireless telecommunications service as authorized by a
license issued by the FCC;
(20) "Proprietary information" means information, including customer lists and other
related information, technology descriptions, technical information, or trade secrets;
(21) "Pseudo-automatic number identification" means a wireless enhanced 911 service
capability that enables the automatic display of the number of the cell site or cell
face;
(22) "Public safety answering point" or "PSAP" means a communications facility that is
assigned the responsibility to receive 911 calls originating in a given area and, as
appropriate, to dispatch public safety services or to extend, transfer, or relay 911
calls to appropriate public safety agencies;
(23) "Purchaser" means a person who purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications
service in a retail transaction;
(24) "Retail transaction" means the purchase of prepaid wireless telecommunications
service from a retailer for any purpose other than resale;
(25) "Retailer" means a person who sells prepaid wireless telecommunications service to
any person for a purpose other than resale;
(26) "Service connection" means the transmission, conveyance, or routing of voice, data,
video, text, or any other information signal of the purchaser's choosing by any
medium or method now in existence or later devised with the ability to directly
connect the user to 911 emergency services;
(27) "Service supplier" means a person or entity who provides local exchange telephone
service to a telephone subscriber;
(28) "Wireless enhanced 911 system," "wireless E911 system," "wireless enhanced 911
service," or "wireless E911 service" means an emergency telephone system that
provides the end user of the CMRS connection with wireless 911 service and, in
addition, directs 911 calls to appropriate public safety answering points based on the
geographical location from which the call originated and provides the capability for
automatic number identification and automatic location identification features in
accordance with the requirements of the FCC order; and
(29) "Tier III CMRS provider" means a non-nationwide Commercial Mobile Radio
Service provider with no more than five hundred thousand (500,000) subscribers as
of December 31, 2001.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 40, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2020. -- Amended
2016 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 4, effective July 15, 2016. -- Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch.
12, sec. 33, effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 219, sec. 1,
effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 92, effective June 20,
2005. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 535, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/25/2009). This statute, as amended by 2009
Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 33, contained a reference in subsection (1) to "Section 4 of this
Act," a statute codified at KRS 42.724. After consultation with the drafter and
examination of the materials in the bill folder, the reference has been replaced with
"KRS 65.7625" (Section 34 of that Act) by the Reviser of Statutes during
codification to correct a manifest clerical or typographical error. This correction has
been made under the authority of KRS 7.136(1).
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 193, sec. 14,
instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and
officers whose names have been changed in the Act, as it confirms reorganization
within the executive branch and establishes the Kentucky Office of Homeland
Security. Such a correction has been made in this section.
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