2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 1 | State Government › Chapter 128 | 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone Number System › Section 128.07 | Final Plan Contents, Filing.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A) The final plan required under section 128.06 of the Revised Code shall specify:
(1) Which telephone companies serving customers in the county and, as authorized in division (A) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, in an adjacent county will participate in the 9-1-1 system;
(2) The location and number of public safety answering points; how the public safety answering points will be connected to a county's preferred next generation 9-1-1 system; from what geographic territory each public safety answering point will receive 9-1-1 calls; whether enhanced 9-1-1 or next generation 9-1-1 service will be provided within such territory; what subdivisions will be served by the public safety answering point; and whether a public safety answering point will respond to calls by directly dispatching an emergency service provider, by relaying a message to the appropriate emergency service provider, or by transferring the call to the appropriate emergency service provider;
(3) How originating service providers must connect to the core 9-1-1 system identified by the final plan and what methods will be utilized by the originating service providers to provide 9-1-1 voice, text, other forms of messaging media, and caller location to the core 9-1-1 system;
(4) That in instances where a public safety answering point, even if capable, does not directly dispatch all entities that provide the emergency services potentially needed for an incident, without significant delay, that request shall be transferred or the information electronically relayed to the entity that directly dispatches the potentially needed emergency services;
(5) Which subdivision or regional council of governments will establish, equip, furnish, operate, and maintain a particular public safety answering point;
(6) A projection of the initial cost of establishing, equipping, and furnishing and of the annual cost of the first five years of operating and maintaining each public safety answering point;
(7) Whether the cost of establishing, equipping, furnishing, operating, or maintaining each public safety answering point should be funded through charges imposed under section 128.35 of the Revised Code or will be allocated among the subdivisions served by the answering point and, if any such cost is to be allocated, the formula for so allocating it;
(8) How each emergency service provider will respond to a misdirected call or the provision of a caller location that is either misrepresentative of the actual location or does not meet requirements of the federal communications commission or other accepted national standards as they exist on the date of the call origination.
(B)(1) The 9-1-1 program review committee shall send a copy of the final plan:
(a) To the board of county commissioners of the county, to the legislative authority of each municipal corporation in the county, and to the board of township trustees of each township in the county either by certified mail or, if the committee has record of an internet identifier of record associated with the board or legislative authority, by ordinary mail and by that internet identifier of record; and
(b) To the board of trustees, directors, or park commissioners of each subdivision that will be served by a public safety answering point under the plan.
(2) The 9-1-1 program review committee shall file a copy of its current final plan with the Ohio 9-1-1 program office not later than six months after the effective date of this amendment . Any revisions or amendments shall be filed not later than ninety days after adoption.
(C) As used in this section, "internet identifier of record" has the same meaning as in section 9.312 of the Revised Code.
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