Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:793 – Establishment of systems
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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:793
- 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.
- Public agency: means any agency or political subdivision of the state which provides or has authority to provide firefighting, police, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:792
- Public safety agency: means a functional division of a public agency which provides firefighting, police, medical, or other emergency services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:792
- 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 same telephone line, clearing a telephone line or automatic call routing or combinations of such capabilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:792
Every public agency or public safety agency within its respective jurisdiction shall establish and have in operation by January 1, 1978, a basic or sophisticated system, if technologically compatible with the existing local telephone network.
The establishment of such systems shall be centralized to the extent feasible that is, multijurisdictional or regional systems shall be encouraged. Any system established pursuant to this Chapter may include the territory of more than one public agency or may include a segment of the territory of a public agency. However, all agencies must recognize the limitations of the local telephone network to segregate.
Added by Acts 1974, No. 94, §1.