                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 56-484.12)

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Automatic location identification&#8221; or &#8220;ALI&#8221; means a
telecommunications network capability that enables the automatic display of
information defining the geographical location of the telephone used to place a
wireless enhanced 9-1-1 call.
		&#8220;Automatic number identification&#8221; or &#8220;ANI&#8221; means a
telecommunications network capability that enables the automatic display of the
telephone number used to place a wireless Enhanced 9-1-1 call.
		&#8220;Board&#8221; means the 9-1-1 Services Board created pursuant to this
article.
		&#8220;Chief Information Officer&#8221; or &#8220;CIO&#8221; means the Chief
Information Officer appointed pursuant to § 2.2-2005.
		&#8220;Coordinator&#8221; means the Virginia Public Safety Communications
Systems Coordinator employed by the Division.
		&#8220;CMRS&#8221; means mobile telecommunications service as defined in the
federal Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, 4 U.S.C. § 124, as amended.
		&#8220;CMRS provider&#8221; means an entity authorized by the Federal
Communications Commission to provide CMRS within the Commonwealth.
		&#8220;Division&#8221; means the Division of Public Safety Communications
created in § 44-146.18:5.
		&#8220;Emergency services IP network&#8221; or &#8220;ESInet&#8221; means a
shared public safety agency-managed Internet protocol (IP) network that (i) is
used for emergency services communications, (ii) provides an IP transport
infrastructure that is capable of carrying voice and data and that supports next
generation 9-1-1 service core functions such as routing and location validation
of emergency service requests, and (iii) is engineered, managed, and intended to
support emergency public safety communications and 9-1-1 service.
		&#8220;Enhanced 9-1-1 service&#8221; or &#8220;E-911&#8243; means a service
consisting of telephone network features and PSAPs provided for users of
telephone systems enabling such users to reach a PSAP by dialing the digits
&#8220;9-1-1.&#8221; Such service automatically directs 9-1-1 emergency
telephone calls to the appropriate PSAPs by selective routing based on the
geographical location from which the emergency call originated and provides the
capability for ANI and ALI features.
		&#8220;ESInet point of interconnection&#8221; means the demarcation point at
which the NG9-1-1 Service Provider receives and assumes responsibility for 9-1-1
call traffic from originating service providers.
		&#8220;Local exchange carrier&#8221; means any public service company granted
a certificate to furnish public utility service for the provision of local
exchange telephone service pursuant to Chapter 10.1 (§ 56-265.1 et seq.) of
Title 56.
		&#8220;Next generation 9-1-1 service&#8221; or &#8220;NG9-1-1&#8243; means a
service that (i) consists of coordinated intrastate 9-1-1 IP networks serving
residents of the Commonwealth with the routing of emergency service requests, by
voice or data, across public safety ESInets; (ii) automatically directs 9-1-1
emergency telephone calls and other emergency service requests in data formats
to the appropriate PSAPs by routing using geographical information system data;
(iii) provides for ANI and ALI features; and (iv) interconnects with enhanced
9-1-1 service.
		&#8220;9-1-1 service&#8221; includes E-911 and NG9-1-1.
		&#8220;Originating service provider&#8221; means the local exchange carrier,
VoIP provider, or CMRS provider that serves the end user over which a 9-1-1
call, 9-8-8 call, call to the crisis call center, as defined in § 37.2-311.1,
or call to the NSPL, as defined in § 37.2-311.1, is made.
		&#8220;Place of primary use&#8221; has the meaning as defined in the federal
Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, 4 U.S.C. § 124, as amended.
		&#8220;Postpaid CMRS&#8221; means CMRS that is not prepaid CMRS, as defined in
§ 56-484.17:1.
		&#8220;Public safety answering point&#8221; or &#8220;PSAP&#8221; means a
facility (i) equipped and staffed on a 24-hour basis to receive and process
9-1-1 calls or (ii) that intends to receive and process 9-1-1 calls and has
notified CMRS providers in its jurisdiction of its intention to receive and
process such calls.
		&#8220;VoIP service&#8221; means interconnected voice over Internet protocol
service as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Part 9, section
9.3, as amended.
		&#8220;Wireless E-911 Fund&#8221; means the fund created pursuant to §
56-484.17.
		&#8220;Wireless E-911 surcharge&#8221; means a fee billed with respect to
postpaid CMRS customers by each CMRS provider and CMRS reseller on each CMRS
device capable of two-way interactive voice communication.

HISTORY: 2000, c. 1064; 2001, c. 529; 2002, c. 68; 2003, cc. 160, 341, 981,
1021; 2005, c. 942; 2006, cc. 739, 780; 2010, cc. 466, 566; 2011, cc. 120, 138;
2016, c. 361; 2018, cc. 532, 533; 2020, c. 423; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 248.