Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 518a · 20 active provisions
(a) There is established a Division of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications which shall be within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. The Division of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications shall be responsible for developing and maintaining a state-wide emergency service telecommunications p…
As used in this section and sections 28-25a to 28-29b, inclusive: (1) “Automatic number identification” means an enhanced 9-1-1 service and a next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system capability that enables the automatic display of the telephone number used to place a 9-1-1 call. (2) “Automatic location identific…
(a)(1) In order to establish the state-wide enhanced 9-1-1 service, every telephone company providing service within the state shall provide, not later than December 31, 1989, selective routing, automatic number identification and automatic location identification in compliance with a time schedule approved by the divi…
(a) Each public safety answering point shall be capable of transmitting requests for law enforcement, fire fighting, medical, ambulance or other emergency services to a public or private safety agency that provides the requested services. (b) Each public safety answering point shall be equipped with a system approved b…
As enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes available, each telephone company shall convert, in accordance with an electronic switching systems modernization schedule submitted to and approved by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, each coin telephone within areas served by such enhanced 9-1-1 service to dial tone first c…
(a) The division shall, subject to review by the commission, administer and coordinate the implementation of enhanced 9-1-1 service and the next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system in the state. (b) The division, in consultation with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, telephone companies, municipalities a…
(a) Any municipality proposing the creation of a public safety answering point or any public safety answering point proposing any change to the operation, location, jurisdiction or utilized public safety agencies of such public safety answering point shall submit a proposed 9-1-1 service utilization plan to the divisio…
(a) A public safety agency which receives a request for emergency service outside of its jurisdiction shall promptly forward the request to the public safety answering point or public safety agency responsible for that geographical area. Any emergency unit dispatched to a location outside its jurisdiction in response t…
(a) A telephone company or voice over Internet protocol service provider, as defined in section 28-30b, shall forward to any public safety answering point or other answering point equipped for the enhanced 9-1-1 service or the next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system the telephone number and street address of any…
Each municipality shall be responsible for the operation and maintenance of any public service answering point terminal equipment jointly or separately provided to it by the state.
The Attorney General may, at the request of the division, or on his or her own initiative, institute civil proceedings against any municipality or telephone company to enforce the provisions of sections 28-25, 28-25a, 28-25b, 28-26, 28-27, 28-27a, 28-28, 28-28a, 28-28b, 28-29a and 28-29b.
(a) There is established an E 9-1-1 Commission to (1) advise the division in the planning, design, implementation and coordination of the state-wide emergency 9-1-1 telephone system created pursuant to sections 28-25 to 28-29b, inclusive, and (2) in consultation with the Coordinating Advisory Board established pursuant…
The division, subject to the review and approval of the commission, shall submit a report to the General Assembly, not later than February fifteenth, annually, concerning its progress in carrying out the purposes of sections 28-25, 28-25a, 28-25b, 28-26, 28-27, 28-27a, 28-28, 28-28a, 28-28b, 28-29 and 28-29a.
(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Telecommunications” means any system in which electronic signals are used to transmit information between or among points, including but not limited to, systems transmitting voice, data or video by means of waves in any portion of the electromagnetic spectrum; (2) “Telecommuni…
(a) There is established a fund to be known as the “Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund”. The fund shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the fund, including, but not limited to, any federal funds collected pursuant to subsection (d) of section 28-24, fees assessed against subscribers of local t…
As used in this section and sections 28-30a, 28-30d, 28-30e and 28-30f: (1) “Consumer” means a person who purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a retail transaction. (2) “Marketplace facilitator” has the same meaning as provided in section 12-408e. (3) “Prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee” means the fee tha…
Section 28-30c is repealed, effective January 1, 2013.
Each VOIP service provider shall assess a monthly fee against each subscriber to fund the enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program in accordance with section 16-256g. Each such provider shall comply with all of the requirements of 47 CFR 9 and this chapter, provided the provisions of this chapter are not addressed by, or not i…
(a) Each consumer shall be assessed a prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee. Such fee shall be equal to the fee determined by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in accordance with subsection (a) of section 16-256g for each retail transaction. For the purposes of this section, if a consumer purchase includes multiple prep…
(a) Any seller who collects a prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee shall remit such fee to the Department of Revenue Services at such time and in such manner as required by chapter 219. The department shall establish registration and payment procedures that substantially coincide with the registration and payment procedures th…