2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-2862v1. Definitions.

As used in the Oklahoma 9-1-1 Management Authority Act:

1. "Area served" means the geographic area which shall be served by the 9-1-1 emergency telephone service provided by the governing body of a county, municipality, part of a county or combination of such governing bodies;

2. "Authority" means the Oklahoma 9-1-1 Management Authority created in Section 2863 of this title;

3. "Emergency telephone service" means any telephone system utilizing a three-digit number, nine-one-one (9-1-1), for reporting an emergency to the appropriate public agency providing law enforcement, fire, medical or other emergency services, including ancillary communications systems and personnel necessary to pass the reported emergency to the appropriate emergency service and personnel;

4. "Emergency telephone fee" means a fee to finance the operation of emergency telephone service;

5. "Governing body" means the board of county commissioners of a county, the city council, tribal authority or other governing body of a municipality, or a combination of such boards, councils or other municipal governing bodies including county or municipal beneficiary public trusts, or other public trusts which shall have an administering board;

6. "Local exchange telephone company" means any company providing exchange telephone services to any service user in this state, and shall include any competitive local exchange carrier as defined in Section 139.102 of Title 17 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

7. "Next-generation 9-1-1" or "NG9-1-1" means an:

• a.IP-based system comprised of hardware, software, data, and operational policies and procedures that:
• (1)provides standardized interfaces from emergency call and message services to support emergency communications,
• (2)processes all types of emergency calls, including voice, text, data and multimedia information,
• (3)acquires and integrates additional emergency call data useful to call routing and handling,
• (4)delivers the emergency calls, messages and data to the appropriate public safety answering point and other appropriate emergency entities,
• (5)supports data or video communications needs for coordinated incident response and management, and
• (6)provides broadband service to public safety answering points or other first responder entities, or
• b.IP-based system comprised of hardware, software, data and operational policies and procedures that conforms with subsequent amendments made to the definition of Next Generation 9-1-1 services in Public Law 112-96;

8. "9-1-1 emergency telephone service" means any telephone system whereby telephone subscribers may utilize a three-digit number (9-1-1) for reporting an emergency to the appropriate public agency providing law enforcement, fire, medical or other emergency services, including ancillary communications systems and personnel necessary to pass the reported emergency to the appropriate emergency service and which the wireless service provider is required to provide pursuant to the Federal Communications Commission Order 94-102 (961 Federal Register 40348);

9. "9-1-1 wireless telephone fee" means the fee imposed in Section 2865 of this title to finance the installation and operation of emergency 9-1-1 services and any necessary equipment;

10. "Person" means any service user, including, but not limited to, any individual, firm, partnership, co-partnership, joint venture, association, cooperative organization, private corporation, whether organized for profit or not, fraternal organization, nonprofit organization, estate, trust, business or common law trust, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, trustee or trustee in bankruptcy, the United States of America, the state, any political subdivision of the state, or any federal or state agency, department, commission, board or bureau;

11. "Place of primary use" means the street address representative of where the use of the mobile telecommunications service of the customer primarily occurs, which shall be the residential street address or the primary business street address of the customer and shall be within the licensed service area of the home service provider in accordance with Section 55001 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes and the federal Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, P.L. No. 106-252, codified at 4 U.S.C. 116-126;

12. "Prepaid wireless telecommunications service" means a telecommunications wireless service that provides the right to utilize mobile wireless service as well as other telecommunications services including the download of digital products delivered electronically, content and ancillary services, which are paid for in advance and sold in predetermined units or dollars of which the number declines with use in a known amount;

13. "Proprietary information" means wireless service provider or VoIP service provider, subscriber, market share, cost and review information;

14. "Public agency" means any city, town, county, municipal corporation, public district, public trust, substate planning district, public authority or tribal authority located within this state which provides or has authority to provide firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, emergency medical or other emergency services;

15. "Public safety answering point" or "PSAP" means an entity responsible for receiving 9-1-1 calls and processing those calls according to specific operational policy;

16. "Public safety telecommunicator" means a person who performs a public service by processing, analyzing, and dispatching calls for emergency assistance. The person is a first responder that provides pre-arrival instructions and has specialized training to mitigate the loss of life and property;

17. "Service user" means any person who is provided exchange telephone service in this state;

18. "Tariff rate" means the rate or rates billed by a local exchange telephone company stated in tariffs applicable for such company, as approved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, or the current equivalent of such rates, which represent the recurring charges of such local exchange telephone company for exchange telephone service or its equivalent, exclusive of all taxes, fees, licenses or similar charges whatsoever;

19. "Wireless service provider" means a provider of commercial mobile service under Section 332(d) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C., Section 151 et seq., Federal Communications Commission rules, and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L. No. 103-66, and includes a provider of wireless two-way communication service, radio-telephone communications related to cellular telephone service, network radio access lines or the equivalent, and personal communication service. The term does not include a provider of:

• a.a service whose users do not have access to 9-1-1 service,
• b.a communication channel used only for data transmission, or
• c.a wireless roaming service or other nonlocal radio access line service;

20. "Wireless telecommunications connection" means the ten-digit access number assigned to a customer regardless of whether more than one such number is aggregated for the purpose of billing a service user; and

21. "Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider" means a provider of interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol service to end users in the state, including resellers.

Added by Laws 2016, c. 324, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2016. Amended by Laws 2022, c. 30, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2022; Laws 2023, c. 49, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2023.