31-4801 Purpose
31-4802 Definitions
31-4803 Authority to Establish and for Voters to Approve Funding for a Consolidated Emergency Communications System
31-4804 Emergency Communications Fee
31-4804A Establishment of Enhanced Consolidated Emergency Communications Systems or Next Generation Consolidated Emergency Systems
31-4805 Establishment of Joint Powers Board for Operation of Emergency Communications Service
31-4806 Authorization for Governing Board to Appoint Official to Supervise Emergency Communications Service in the Absence of Joint Powers Agreement
31-4807 Right to Fee Not Affected by Nonservice
31-4808 Termination
31-4809 Fund and Appropriations
31-4810 Existing Joint County-Wide Emergency Dispatch Systems Not Affected
31-4811 Pay Phones to Be Converted to Allow Emergency Calls Without Charge
31-4812 Immunity and Conditions of Liability in Providing Emergency Communications Service
31-4813 Prepaid Wireless Telecommunications Service Emergency Communications Fee
31-4814 Confidential and Proprietary Data
31-4815 Creation of the Idaho Public Safety Communications Commission — Terms
31-4816 Idaho Public Safety Communications Commission — Responsibilities
31-4817 Idaho Public Safety Communications Commission — Mediation
31-4818 Idaho Emergency Communications Fund — Establishment and Administration
31-4819 Enhanced Emergency Communications Grant Fee
31-4820 Idaho Public Safety Interoperable Communications and Data Systems Fund — Establishment and Administration
31-4821 Administrative Support

Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 31 > Chapter 48 - Emergency Communications Act

  • Access line: means any telephone line, trunk line, network access register, dedicated radio signal, or equivalent that provides switched telecommunications access to a consolidated emergency communications system from either a service address or a place of primary use within this state. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Administrator: means the person, officer or agency designated to operate a consolidated emergency communications system, and to receive funds for such an operation. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Basic consolidated emergency system: means consolidated emergency systems that are not enhanced. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Consolidated emergency communications system: means facilities, equipment and dispatching services directly related to establishing, maintaining, or enhancing a 911 emergency communications service. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Emergency communications fee: means the fee provided for in section 31-4803, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Enhanced consolidated emergency system: means consolidated emergency systems that provide enhanced wireless 911 service and include, but are not limited to, the technological capability to provide call back numbers, cell site locations, and the location of calls by latitude and longitude and made through the systems of wireless carriers. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Governing board: means the joint powers board if the 911 service area is a multicounty area, or the board of county commissioners of the county or the city council if the 911 service area is a city, or both the board of county commissioners and the city council if the 911 service area includes both city and county residents but not the entire county. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Interconnected: means the ability of the user to receive calls from and terminate calls to the public switched telephone network (PSTN)or emergency services internet protocol network (ESInet), including commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) networks. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Interoperability: means the ability of public safety service and support providers, law enforcement, public utilities, transportation and others to communicate when necessary with staff from other responding agencies, and to exchange voice, video, and data on demand, in real time, and when authorized. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Interoperable public safety communications and data systems: means facilities, equipment, networks, services, software and infrastructure directly related to establishing, maintaining or enhancing systems to exchange voice, video or other public safety data, to include future technology advancements. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114
  • Place of primary use: means the residential street address or the primary business street address in Idaho where the customer’s use of the wireless or VoIP service primarily occurs. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Public safety communications and data systems: refers to the general systematic ability of people or entities to communicate or manage data with other people or entities using technology for the purpose of reporting and responding to situations that require a public safety response. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Public safety communications stakeholders: means any city, county, fire district, ambulance district, and the state. See Idaho Code 31-4802
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Telecommunications provider: means any person or entity providing:
    • Idaho Code 31-4802
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
  • Wireless carrier: means a cellular licensee, a personal communications service licensee, and certain specialized mobile radio providers designated as covered carriers by the federal communications commission in 47 C. See Idaho Code 31-4802