2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-2852. Definitions.

As used in the Nine-One-One Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Emergency Service Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Area served” means the geographic area, which shall be served by the emergency telephone service, provided by the governing body of a county, municipality, part of a county or combination of such governing bodies;

2. “Emergency service fee” means a fee to finance the operation of emergency calling service;

3. “Governing body” means the board of county commissioners of a county, the city council or other governing body of a municipality, or a combination of such boards, councils or other municipal governing bodies;

4. “Interconnected VoIP service” shall have the same meaning as set forth in 47 C.F.R., Section 9.3, or any successor regulation adopted by the Federal Communications Commission, and which defines the term as a service that:

a. enables real-time, two-way voice communications,

b. requires a broadband connection from the user’s location,

c. requires Internet Protocol-compatible customer premises equipment (CPE), and

d. permits users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and to terminate calls to the PSTN;

5. “Interconnected VoIP service provider” means the company that provides interconnected VoIP service;

6. “Internet Protocol (IP)” means the network layer protocol in the transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) communications protocol suite;

7. “Primary service address” means the street address representative of where the use of interconnected VoIP service by the customer primarily occurs;

8. “Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)” means a location where 9-1-1 calls are routed for emergency response;

9. “Public switched telephone network (PSTN)” means the worldwide collection of interconnected, circuit-switched, voice-oriented public telephone networks, both commercial and government-owned;

10. “Statewide default answering point” means an emergency answering point designated to receive 9-1-1 calls for either the entire state or those portions of the state not otherwise served by a local PSAP;

11. “Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)” means any Internet Protocol (IP) enabled services offering real-time, multidirectional voice functionality including, but not limited to, services that mimic traditional telephony, or any other definition of VoIP that may be subsequently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission; and

12. “VoIP service user” means the endpoint Internet Protocol (IP) device that is used to originate an emergency call.

Added by Laws 2006, c. 82, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.