Oklahoma § 63-2862 - Definitions

§ 63-2862. 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. “Landline telecommunications connection” means a ten-digit

access number assigned to a customer that utilizes analog

communications over a wired transmission line that travels

underground or on telephone poles;

7. “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;

8. “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,

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(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;

9. “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);

10. “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;

11. “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;

12. “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;

13. “Prepaid wireless telecommunications service” means a

telecommunications wireless service that provides the right to

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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;

14. “Proprietary information” means wireless service provider

or VoIP service provider, subscriber, market share, cost and review

information;

15. “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;

16. “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;

17. “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;

18. “Service user” means any person who is provided exchange

telephone service in this state;

19. “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;

20. “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;

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21. “Wireless telecommunications connection” means the tendigit 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

22. “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; Laws 2024, c. 452, § 146, emerg. eff. June 14, 2024.