NY Cty L § 301 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CNT - County Article 6 - Enhanced Emergency Telephone System Surcharge 301 - Definitions.

§ 301. Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and   phrases  shall  have  the following meanings unless the specific context   clearly indicates otherwise:1. "Municipality" means any county except a  county  wholly  contained   within  a  city  and any city having a population of one million or more   persons.2. "Board" means the board of supervisors of a county  or  an  elected   county  legislative  body  or  city  legislative body by whatsoever name   designated.3. "E911 system" means an enhanced emergency telephone  service  which   automatically   connects  a  person  dialing  the  digits  9-1-1  to  an   established public service answering point and which shall include,  but   not  be  limited  to, selective routing, automatic number identification   and automatic location identification.4. "911 service area" means the area within the geographic  boundaries   of a county which has established an E911 system.5.  "Public  safety  agency"  means  a functional division of a public   agency  which  provides  or  has  the  authority  to   provide   police,   firefighting, emergency medical or ambulance services or other emergency   services  or  a  private  entity  which  provides  emergency  medical or   ambulance services.6. "Public service answering point" means  a  communications  facility   which  first  receives  911 calls from persons within a 911 service area   and which may, as appropriate,  directly  dispatch  the  services  of  a   public  safety  agency or extend, transfer, relay or otherwise route 911   calls to the appropriate public safety agency.7. "Service supplier" means (i) a telephone corporation which provides   local exchange access service within a  911  service  area,  or  (ii)  a   provider  of  "voice  over  internet protocol service" or "VOIP service"   that provides such service within a 911 service area.8. "System costs"  means  the  costs  associated  with  obtaining  and   maintaining   the   telecommunication   equipment,  all  operations  and   maintenance  costs  and  the  telephone  services  costs  necessary   to   establish and provide an E911 system.9. "Wireless communications device" means any equipment used to access   a wireless communications service.10.  "Wireless  communications  service"  means  all commercial mobile   services, as that term is defined in section 332(d) of title 47,  United   States  Code,  as  amended from time to time, including, but not limited   to, all  broadband  personal  communications  services,  wireless  radio   telephone services, geographic area specialized and enhanced specialized   mobile  radio services, and incumbent-wide area specialized mobile radio   licensees, which offer real time, two-way voice or data service that  is   interconnected  with  the public switched telephone network or otherwise   provides access to emergency communications services.11.  "Place  of  primary  use"   shall   mean   the   street   address   representative  of where a wireless communications customer's use of the   wireless telecommunications service primarily occurs, and must  be:  (i)   the residential street address or the primary business street address of   the  wireless  communications  customer  and  (ii)  within  the licensed   service area of the wireless communications service supplier.12. "Wireless communications service supplier"  means  any  commercial   entity  that  operates  a  wireless  communications  service in New York   state.13. "Voice over internet protocol service"  or  "VOIP  service"  shall   mean   any   service   that   (i)   enables   real-time,  two-way  voice   communications; (ii) requires a broadband  connection  from  the  user's   location;  (iii) requires internet protocol compatible customer premises    equipment (CPE); and (iv) permits users generally to receive calls  that   originate  on  the  public  switched  telephone network and to terminate   calls to the public switched telephone network.