N.Y. County Law § 301: Definitions

§ 301. Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and

phrases shall have the following meanings unless the specific context

clearly indicates otherwise:

1. "Municipality" means any county except a county wholly contained

within a city and any city having a population of one million or more

persons.

2. "Board" means the board of supervisors of a county or an elected

county legislative body or city legislative body by whatsoever name

designated.

3. "E911 system" means an enhanced emergency telephone service which

automatically connects a person dialing the digits 9-1-1 to an

established public service answering point and which shall include, but

not be limited to, selective routing, automatic number identification

and automatic location identification.

4. "911 service area" means the area within the geographic boundaries

of a county which has established an E911 system.

5. "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a public

agency which provides or has the authority to provide police,

firefighting, emergency medical or ambulance services or other emergency

services or a private entity which provides emergency medical or

ambulance services.

6. "Public service answering point" means a communications facility

which first receives 911 calls from persons within a 911 service area

and which may, as appropriate, directly dispatch the services of a

public safety agency or extend, transfer, relay or otherwise route 911

calls to the appropriate public safety agency.

7. "Service supplier" means (i) a telephone corporation which provides

local exchange access service within a 911 service area, or (ii) a

provider of "voice over internet protocol service" or "VOIP service"

that provides such service within a 911 service area.

8. "System costs" means the costs associated with obtaining and

maintaining the telecommunication equipment, all operations and

maintenance costs and the telephone services costs necessary to

establish and provide an E911 system.

9. "Wireless communications device" means any equipment used to access

a wireless communications service.

10. "Wireless communications service" means all commercial mobile

services, as that term is defined in section 332(d) of title 47, United

States Code, as amended from time to time, including, but not limited

to, all broadband personal communications services, wireless radio

telephone services, geographic area specialized and enhanced specialized

mobile radio services, and incumbent-wide area specialized mobile radio

licensees, which offer real time, two-way voice or data service that is

interconnected with the public switched telephone network or otherwise

provides access to emergency communications services.

11. "Place of primary use" shall mean the street address

representative of where a wireless communications customer's use of the

wireless telecommunications service primarily occurs, and must be: (i)

the residential street address or the primary business street address of

the wireless communications customer and (ii) within the licensed

service area of the wireless communications service supplier.

12. "Wireless communications service supplier" means any commercial

entity that operates a wireless communications service in New York

state.

13. "Voice over internet protocol service" or "VOIP service" shall

mean any service that (i) enables real-time, two-way voice

communications; (ii) requires a broadband connection from the user's

location; (iii) requires internet protocol compatible customer premises

equipment (CPE); and (iv) permits users generally to receive calls that

originate on the public switched telephone network and to terminate

calls to the public switched telephone network.