Illinois Compiled Statutes 50 Local Government: Article -

• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 0.01
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Emergency Telephone System Act". (Source: P.A. 85-978.)
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 1
  The General Assembly finds and declares that it is in the public interest to shorten the time required for a citizen to request and...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2
  As used in this Act, the terms defined in Sections following this Section and preceding Section 3 have the meanings ascribed to them in...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.01
  "Public agency" means the State, and any unit of local government or special purpose district located in whole or in part within this State...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.02
  "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a public agency which provides firefighting, police, medical, or other emergency services. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.)
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.03
  "Direct dispatch method" means a telephone service providing for the dispatch of an appropriate emergency service unit upon receipt of a telephone request for...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.04
  "Relay method" means a telephone service whereby pertinent information is noted by the recipient of a telephone request for emergency services, and is relayed...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.05
  "Transfer method" means a telephone service which receives telephone requests for emergency services and directly transfers such requests to an appropriate public safety agency...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.06
  "Referral method" means a telephone service which, upon the receipt of a telephone request for emergency services, provides the requesting party with the telephone...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.06a
  System. "System" means the communications equipment required to produce a response by the appropriate emergency public safety agency as a result of an emergency...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.07
  "Basic system" means a telephone service which automatically connects a person dialing the digits "911" to an established public safety answering point through normal...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.08
  "Sophisticated system" means a basic system with the additional capability of automatic identification of the caller's number, holding the incoming call, reconnection on the...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.09
  "Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.)
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.10
  "Implementation date" means the effective date of a public act, other than this amendatory Act of 1987, providing all local public agencies affected by...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.11
  "Board" means an Emergency Telephone System Board or a Joint Emergency Telephone System Board created pursuant to Section 15.4. (Source: P.A. 85-978.)
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.12
  (a) For the purposes of this Act, "network connections" means the number of voice grade communications channels directly between a subscriber and a telecommunications...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.13
  "Transmitting messages" shall have the meaning ascribed to the term in Section 8-11-2 of the Illinois Municipal Code. (Source: P.A. 85-978.)
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.14
  Automatic alarm; automatic alerting device. "Automatic alarm" and "automatic alerting device" mean any device that will access the 9-1-1 system for emergency services upon...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.15
  Mechanical dialer. "Mechanical dialer" means any device that either manually or remotely triggers a dialing device to access the 9-1-1 system. (Source: P.A. 88-497.)
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.16
  Private business switch service. "Private business switch service" means a telecommunications service including centrex type service and private branch exchange service (PBX), even though...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.17
  Private residential switch service. "Private residential switch service" means a telecommunications service including centrex type service and private branch exchange service (PBX), even though...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.18
  System provider. "System provider" means the contracted entity providing 9-1-1 network and database services. (Source: P.A. 88-604, eff. 9-1-94.)
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.19
  9-1-1 system. "9-1-1 system" means the geographic area that has been granted an order of authority by the Commission to use "9-1-1" as the...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.20
  Private branch exchange. "Private branch exchange" or "PBX" means a private telephone system and associated equipment located on the user's property that provides communications...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.21
  Next generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1). "Next generation 9-1-1" or "(NG9-1-1)" means, for the purposes of a Regional Pilot Project, a system comprised of managed Internet Protocol-based...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.22
  Regional Pilot Project. "Regional Pilot Project" means an experimental program designed to test the efficacy of next generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) within a region that includes...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.23
  Qualified governmental entity. "Qualified governmental entity" means a unit of local government authorized to provide 9-1-1 services pursuant to the Emergency Telephone System Act where...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.24
  Advanced service. "Advanced service" means any telecommunications service with dynamic bandwidth allocation, including but not limited to ISDN Primary Rate Interface (PRI), that, through the...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.25
  Regular service. "Regular service" means any telecommunications service, other than advanced service, that is capable of transporting either the subscriber's inter-premises voice telecommunications services to...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.26
  Trunk line. "Trunk line" means a transmission path, or group of transmission paths, connecting a subscriber's Private Branch Exchange ("P.B.X.") to a telecommunications carrier's public...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.27
  Computer aided dispatch. "Computer aided dispatch" or "CAD" means a database maintained by the public safety agency or public safety answering point used in conjunction...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 2.28
  Hosted supplemental 9-1-1 service. "Hosted supplemental 9-1-1 service" means a database service that electronically provides information to 9-1-1 call takers when a call is placed...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 3
  Every local public agency in a county having 100,000 or more inhabitants, within its respective jurisdiction, shall establish and have in operation within 3...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 4
  Every system shall include police, firefighting, and emergency medical and ambulance services, and may include other emergency services, in the discretion of the affected...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 5
  The digits "9-1-1" shall be the primary emergency telephone number within the system, but a public agency or public safety agency shall maintain a...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 6
  Capabilities of system; pay telephones. All systems shall be designed to meet the specific requirements of each community and public agency served by the system....
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 6.1
  The Commission shall require that every 9-1-1 system be readily accessible to hearing-impaired and voice-impaired individuals through the use of telecommunications technology for hearing-impaired...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 7
  The General Assembly finds that, because of overlapping jurisdiction of public agencies, public safety agencies and telephone service areas, the Commission shall establish a...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 8
  The Commission, with the advice and assistance of the Attorney General, shall coordinate the implementation of systems established under this Act. The Commission, with...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 9
  To accomplish the responsibilities specified in this Act, the Commission is directed to consult at regular intervals with the State Fire Marshal, the Department...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 10
  Technical and operational standards for the development of the local agency systems shall be established and reviewed by the Commission on or before December 31,...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 10.1
  Confidentiality. (a) 9-1-1 information consisting of names, addresses and telephone numbers of telephone customers whose listings are not published in directories or listed in...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 10.2
  The Emergency Telephone System Board in any county passing a referendum under Section 15.3, and the Chairman of the County Board in any county...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 10.3
  Notice of address change. The Emergency Telephone System Board in any county implementing a 9-1-1 system that changes any person's address (when the person...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 11
  Within one year after the implementation date or by January 31, 1980, whichever is later, all public agencies in a county having 100,000 or more...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 12
  The Attorney General may, in behalf of the Commission or on his own initiative, commence judicial proceedings to enforce compliance by any public agency...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 13
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06. Repealed by P.A. 96-508, eff. 8-14-09.)
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 14
  The General Assembly declares that a major purpose in enacting this Act is to eliminate instances in which a responding emergency service refuses to...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15
  Copies of the annual certified notification of continuing agreement required by Section 14 shall be filed with the Attorney General and the Commission. Commencing...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.1
  Public body; exemption from civil liability for developing or operating emergency telephone system. No public agency, public safety agency, emergency telephone system board, or...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.2
  Any person calling the number "911" for the purpose of making a false alarm or complaint and reporting false information is subject to the provisions...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.2a
  The installation of or connection to a telephone company's network of any automatic alarm, automatic alerting device, or mechanical dialer that causes the number 9-1-1...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.2b
  Emergency telephone number; advertising. No person or private entity may advertise or otherwise publicize the availability of services provided by a specific provider and...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.3
  Surcharge. (a) The corporate authorities of any municipality or any county may, subject to the limitations of subsections (c), (d), and (h), and in addition...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.4
  Emergency Telephone System Board; powers. (a) The corporate authorities of any county or municipality that imposes a surcharge under Section 15.3 shall establish an Emergency...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.5
  Private residential switch service 9-1-1 service. (a) After June 30, 1995, an entity that provides or operates private residential switch service and provides telecommunications...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.6
  Enhanced 9-1-1 service; business service. (a) After June 30, 2000, or within 18 months after enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes available, any entity that installs...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.7
  Compliance with certification of 9-1-1 system providers by the Illinois Commerce Commission. In addition to the requirements of this Section, all 9-1-1 system providers must...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 15.8
  9-1-1 dialing from a business. (a) Any entity that installs or operates a private business switch service and provides telecommunications facilities or services to businesses...
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 16
  This Act takes effect July 1, 1975. (Source: P.A. 79-1092.)
• Illinois Emergency Telephone System Act. - 50 ILCS 750, Section 17
  9-1-1 call transfer, forward, or relay. (a) The General Assembly finds the following: (1) Some 9-1-1 systems throughout this State do not have a procedure...

Last modified: February 18, 2015