§ 63-2843. Definitions.

As used in the Nine-One-One Wireless Emergency Number Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

1.  "Area served" means the geographic area which shall be served by the emergency telephone service provided by the governing body of a county, municipality, part of a county or combination of such governing bodies;

2.  "Governing body" means the board of county commissioners of a county, the city council or other governing body of a municipality, or a combination of such boards, councils or other municipal governing bodies, which shall have an administering board as provided in subsection G of Section 2815 of this title.  Any such combined administering board shall be formed and shall enter into an agreement with the governing body of each entity in accordance with the Interlocal Cooperation Act.  The agreement shall be filed with the office of the county clerk and in the offices of each governmental entity involved;

3.  "Nine-one-one wireless emergency telephone service" means any telephone system whereby wireless telephone subscribers may utilize a three-digit number, nine-one-one (911), 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);

4.  "Nine-one-one emergency wireless telephone fee" means a fee to finance the installation and operation of emergency wireless telephone service and related equipment;

5.  "Local exchange telephone company" means any company providing exchange telephone service to any service user in this state, and shall include any competitive local exchange carrier as defined in Section 139.102 of Title 17 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

6.  "Person" means any service user, including any individual, firm, partnership, copartnership, joint venture, association, cooperative organization, private corporation, whether organized for profit or not, fraternal organization, nonprofit organization, estate, trust, business or common law trust, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, trustee or trustee in bankruptcy, the United States of America, the state, any political subdivision of the state or any federal or state agency, department, commission, board, or bureau;

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 must be within the licensed service area of the home service provider in accordance with ORS 68-55001 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”, as defined in paragraph 12 of Subsection A of Section 1354.30 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes, means a telecommunications wireless service that provides the right to utilize mobile wireless service as well as other non-telecommunications services, including the download of digital products delivered electronically, content and ancillary services, which must be paid for in advance that is sold in predetermined units or dollars of which the number declines with use in a known amount;

9.  “Proprietary information" shall include subscriber, market share, cost and review information;

10.  "Public agency" means any city, town, county, municipal corporation, public district, public trust, substate planning district, or public authority located within this state which provides or has authority to provide fire fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, emergency medical, or other emergency services;

11.  "Substate planning district" means the following organizations:

a.Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG),

b.Association of South Central Oklahoma Governments (ASCOG),

c.Central Oklahoma Economic Development District (COEDD),

d.Eastern Oklahoma Economic Development District (EOEDD),

e.Grand Gateway Economic Development Association (GGEDA),

f.Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG),

g.Kiamichi Economic Development District (KEDDO),

h.Northern Oklahoma Development Association (NODA),

i.Oklahoma Economic Development Association (OEDA),

j.Southern Oklahoma Development Association (SODA), and

k.South Western Oklahoma Development Authority (SWODA);

12.  "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 nine-one-one service,

b.a communication channel used only for data transmission, or

c.a wireless roaming service or other nonlocal radio access line service; and

13.  "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.

Added by Laws 2000, c. 115, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2000.  Amended by Laws 2001, c. 56, § 1, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2001, c. 414, § 8, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 456, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2005, c. 303, § 1, emerg. eff. June 6, 2005; Laws 2007, c. 353, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2007; Laws 2010, c. 191, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.

Note

NOTE:  Laws 2001, c. 30, § 3 repealed by Laws 2001, c. 414, § 14, eff. July 1, 2001.