The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Access to emergency telephone service has been a longstanding goal of the state.

Terms Used In California Revenue and Taxation Code 41152

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, general partner of a partnership, limited liability company, registered limited liability partnership, foreign limited liability partnership, association, corporation, company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 19
  • Surcharge: means a tax or taxes levied by this state. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 41013

(b) The Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act remains an important means for making emergency telephone service available to every person in this state.

(c) Every reasonable means should be employed by telephone corporations and every provider of telephone quality communication to ensure that every person using their service is informed of and is afforded the opportunity to use emergency telephone service, regardless of the means by which emergency telephone calls are placed.

(d) The furnishing of emergency telephone service is in the public interest and should be supported fairly and equitably by every telephone corporation and every provider of telephone quality communication in a way that is equitable, nondiscriminatory, and competitively neutral.

(Added by Stats. 2008, Ch. 17, Sec. 13. Effective May 21, 2008.)

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