Current through the 2023 Regular Session
Section 10-4-103 - Emergency telephone system requirements(1) Every local and tribal government in this state may establish or participate in a 9-1-1 system.(2) A 9-1-1 system must include: (a) a 24-hour communications facility automatically accessible anywhere in the public safety answering point's service area by dialing 9-1-1;(b) direct dispatch of public and private safety services in the public safety answering point's service area or relay or transfer of 9-1-1 communications to an appropriate public or private safety agency;(c) a 24-hour communications facility equipped with at least two trunk-hunting local access circuits provided by the local telephone company's central office;(d) automatic number identification that automatically identifies and displays the calling telephone number at the public safety answering point; and(e) automatic location identification that automatically identifies and displays the location of the calling telephone at the public safety answering point.(3) The primary emergency telephone number within the state is 9-1-1, but a public safety answering point shall maintain both a separate seven-digit secondary emergency number for use by the telephone company operator and a separate seven-digit nonemergency number.Amended by Laws 2019, Ch. 172,Sec. 2, eff. 4/18/2019.Amended by Laws 2017, Ch. 367,Sec. 17, eff. 7/1/2018.En. Sec. 2, Ch. 635, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 448, L. 1997.