35 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 53 - 911 Emergency Communication Services

• Chapter Notes
• Section 5301 - Scope Of Chapter
  This chapter relates to emergency telephone service.
• Section 5302 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
• Section 5303 - Telecommunications Management
  (a) Powers and duties of agency.--The agency shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To adopt rules and regulations as necessary to enforce...
• Section 5304 - Counties
  (a) Powers and duties.--Each county shall have the following powers and duties in relation to a 911 system: (1) To ensure the provision of...
• Section 5304.1 - Pennsylvania State Police
  (a) Powers and duties.--The Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, or the designee of the commissioner, shall have the following powers and duties in...
• Section 5305 - 911 System Plan
  (a) Minimum standards.--Upon the agreement of a county to establish a 911 system as a regional or single county PSAP, a plan shall be...
• Section 5306 - Special Public Meeting (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5306. Special public meeting (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5306 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, effective August 1,
• Section 5306.1 - Fund
  (a) Establishment.--There is established in the State Treasury a nonlapsing restricted interest-bearing account to be known as the 911 Fund. Money in the fund...
• Section 5306.2 - Uniform 911 Surcharge
  (a) Surcharge imposed.--Each subscriber or consumer shall pay a surcharge of $1.65 for each 911 communications service or prepaid wireless device for which that...
• Section 5307 - Payment, Collection And Remittance Of Surcharge By Providers Of 911 Communications Services
  (a) Collection and remittance of surcharge.-- (1) Providers shall assess and collect the surcharge monthly from each subscriber and forward the collection quarterly less...
• Section 5307.1 - Payment, Collection And Remittance Of Surcharge By Sellers Of Prepaid Wireless Telecommunications Service
  (a) Surcharge.--The following apply: (1) The surcharge shall be collected by the seller from the consumer per each retail transaction occurring in this Commonwealth....
• Section 5308 - Expenditures For Nonrecurring Costs, Training, Mobile Communications Equipment, Maintenance And Operation Of 911 Systems (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5308. Expenditures for nonrecurring costs, training, mobile communications equipment, maintenance and operation of 911 systems (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5308 was...
• Section 5309 - Telephone Records
  (a) Access.--A telephone service supplier shall provide customer telephone numbers, names and service addresses to PSAPs when requested by them for use in responding...
• Section 5310 - Penalty
  (a) Communications with 911 systems.--A person who intentionally calls the 911 emergency number for other than emergency purposes commits a misdemeanor of the third...
• Section 5311 - (Reserved)
• Section 5311.1 - Immunity
  (a) Local government.--A 911 system or a wireless E-911 system run by county and local governments shall be a local agency which shall enjoy...
• Section 5311.2 - Powers And Duties Of Agency (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.2. Powers and duties of agency (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.2 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, effective...
• Section 5311.3 - Advisory Committee (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.3. Advisory committee (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.3 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, effective August 1, 2015.
• Section 5311.4 - Wireless E-911 Emergency Services Fund (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.4. Wireless E-911 Emergency Services Fund (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.4 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, effective...
• Section 5311.5 - Disbursement Of Fund Amounts By Agency (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.5. Disbursement of fund amounts by agency (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.5 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12,...
• Section 5311.6 - Reporting (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.6. Reporting (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.6 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, effective August 1, 2015.
• Section 5311.7 - Prohibition Against Release Of Information
  (a) Annual report of agency.--The annual report of the agency shall be a public document. (b) Prohibition against release of information.--The State Treasurer, agency,...
• Section 5311.8 - Wireless Provider And Voip Provider Records (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.8. Wireless provider and VoIP provider records (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.8 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12,...
• Section 5311.9 - Immunity (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.9. Immunity (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.9 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, effective August 1, 2015.
• Section 5311.10 - Agency Funding For Wireless E-911 Support (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.10. Agency funding for wireless E-911 support (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.10 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12,...
• Section 5311.11 - Rate Regulation
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to constitute the regulation of the rates charged by providers for any service or feature which they...
• Section 5311.12 - Regulations (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.12. Regulations (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.12 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, effective August 1, 2015.
• Section 5311.13 - Enforcement (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.13. Enforcement (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.13 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, effective August 1, 2015.
• Section 5311.14 - Collection And Disbursement Of Voip 911 Fee (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 5311.14. Collection and disbursement of VoIP 911 fee (Deleted by amendment). 2015 Amendment. Section 5311.14 was deleted by amendment June 29, 2015, P.L.36,...
• Section 5311.15 - Shared Residential Mlts Service
  Operators of shared residential MLTS serving residential customers shall ensure that a telecommunications system, at least six months after the effective date of this...
• Section 5311.16 - Business Mlts
  (a) General rule.--For an MLTS serving business locations at least six months after the effective date of this section, the MLTS operator shall deliver...
• Section 5311.17 - Shared Communications Services
  Providers of shared communications services installed at least six months after the effective date of this section shall assure that the MLTS is connected...
• Section 5311.18 - Temporary Residence
  Businesses providing MLTS service to a temporary residence shall permit the dialing of 911, and the MLTS operator shall ensure that the MLTS is...
• Section 5311.19 - Local Notification
  In addition to any other requirement of this chapter, applicable to its type of MLTS service, an MLTS operator: (1) Shall implement local notifications...
• Section 5311.20 - Ali Database Maintenance
  If applicable, MLTS operators must arrange to update the ALI database with an appropriate master street address guide valid address and call-back information for...
• Section 5311.21 - Industry Standards
  Local exchange carriers and providers shall be responsible for providing 911 call interconnectivity through the use of generally accepted industry standards. (June 29, 2015,...
• Section 5311.22 - Dialing Instructions
  An owner or operator of a multiline telephone system installed after the effective date of this section shall ensure that the system is connected...
• Section 5311.23 - Mlts Signaling
  An MLTS shall support 911 calling by using any generally accepted industry standard signaling protocol designed to produce an automatic display of caller information...
• Section 5311.24 - Mlts Operator Education
  Each public agency providing 911 educational programs is encouraged to develop a program to educate MLTS operators related to accessing 911 emergency telephone systems...
• Section 5311.25 - Limitation Of Liability
  A local exchange carrier, Internet service provider, manufacturer or provider of MLTS, MLTS manager, MLTS operator or 911 service provider shall not be liable...
• Section 5312 - (Reserved)
• Section 5312.1 - Legislative Study (Repealed)
  § 5312.1. Legislative study (Repealed). 2015 Repeal. Section 5312.1 was repealed June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, effective August 1, 2015.
• Section 5313 - Legislative Report
  Within two years of the effective date of this section, the agency, in consultation with the board, shall prepare and submit to the General...
• Section 5314 - Inventory
  (a) Comprehensive inventory required.--The agency, in consultation with the board, shall conduct a comprehensive inventory of each county PSAP's facilities, hardware, software, communications infrastructure,...
• Section 5398 - Termination
  This chapter shall expire June 30, 2019. (June 30, 2014, P.L.813, No.84, eff. imd.; June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, eff. imd.) Special Provisions in...

Last modified: October 8, 2016