2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 63. Public Health and Safety › §63-2862v2. Definitions.

As used in the Oklahoma 9-1-1 Management Authority Act:
1. “Authority” means the Oklahoma 9-1-1 Management Authority created in Section 2863 of this title;
2. “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. A governing body made up of two or more governmental entities shall have a board consisting of not less than three members and shall consist of at least one member representing each governmental entity, appointed by the governing body of each participating governmental entity, as set forth in the agreement forming the board. The members of the board shall serve for terms of not more than three (3) years as set forth in the agreement. Members may be appointed to serve more than one term. The names of the members of the governing body board and the appointing authority of each member shall be maintained in the office of the county clerk in the county or counties in which the system operates, along with copies of the agreement forming the board and any amendments to that agreement;
3. “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;
4. “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,
(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;
5. “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);
6. “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;
7. “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;
8. “Prepaid wireless telecommunications service” means a telecommunications wireless service that provides the right to 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;
9. “Proprietary information” means wireless service provider or VoIP service provider, subscriber, market share, cost and review information;
10. “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;
11. “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;
12. “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;
13. “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;
14. “Wireless telecommunications connection” means the ten-digit 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
15. “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. 258, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2023.