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1 AN ACT concerning emergency services.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended
5 by changing Section 15.6 as follows:
6 (50 ILCS 750/15.6)
7 Sec. 15.6. Enhanced 9-1-1 service; business service.
8 (a) After June 30, 2000, or within 18 months after
9 enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes available, any entity that
10 installs or operates a new private business switch service
11 and provides telecommunications facilities or services to
12 businesses shall assure that the system is connected to the
13 public switched network in a manner that calls to 9-1-1
14 result in automatic number and location identification. For
15 buildings having their own street address and containing
16 workspace of 40,000 square feet or less, location
17 identification shall include the building's street address.
18 For buildings having their own street address and containing
19 workspace of more than 40,000 square feet, location
20 identification shall include the building's street address
21 and one distinct location identification per 40,000 square
22 feet of workspace. Separate buildings containing workspace of
23 40,000 square feet or less having a common public street
24 address shall have a distinct location identification for
25 each building in addition to the street address.
26 (b) Exemptions. Buildings containing workspace of more
27 than 40,000 square feet are exempt from the multiple location
28 identification requirements of subsection (a) if the building
29 maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of
30 signaling and responding to emergencies. Those means shall
31 include, but not be limited to, a telephone system that
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1 provides the physical location of 9-1-1 calls coming from
2 within the building. Health care facilities are presumed to
3 meet the requirements of this paragraph if the facilities are
4 staffed with medical or nursing personnel 24 hours per day
5 and if an alternative means of providing information about
6 the source of an emergency call exists. Buildings under this
7 exemption must provide 9-1-1 service that provides the
8 building's street address.
9 Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square
10 feet are exempt from subsection (a) if the building
11 maintains, at all times, alternative and adequate means of
12 signaling and responding to emergencies, including a
13 telephone system that provides the location of a 9-1-1 call
14 coming from within the building, and the building is serviced
15 by its own medical, fire and security personnel. Buildings
16 under this exemption are subject to emergency phone system
17 certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
18 Buildings in communities not serviced by enhanced 9-1-1
19 service are exempt from subsection (a). 2000
20 (c) This Act does not apply to any PBX telephone
21 extension that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical
22 signals directly between the telephone extension and the
23 serving PBX.
24 (d) An entity that violates this Section is guilty of a
25 business offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and
26 not more than $5,000.
27 (e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
28 preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission or
29 on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person,
30 from seeking judicial relief, by mandamus, injunction, or
31 otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section.
32 (f) The Commission shall promulgate rules for the
33 administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000.
34 (Source: P.A. 90-819, eff. 3-23-99; 91-518, eff. 8-13-99;
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1 revised 10-20-99.)
2 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3 becoming law.
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