Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 56 > Chapter 15 > Article 7 - Enhanced Public Safety Telephone Services Act

• ALI: means a telecommunications network capability that enables the automatic display of information defining the geographical location of the telephone used to place a wireless enhanced 9-1-1 call. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• ANI: means a telecommunications network capability that enables the automatic display of the telephone number used to place a wireless Enhanced 9-1-1 call. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Board: means the 9-1-1 Services Board created pursuant to this article. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• CIO: means the Chief Information Officer appointed pursuant to § 2. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• City: means an independent incorporated community which became a city as provided by law before noon on July 1, 1971, or which has within defined boundaries a population of 5,000 or more and which has become a city as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-208
• CMRS: means mobile telecommunications service as defined in the federal Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, 4 U. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• CMRS provider: means an entity authorized by the Federal Communications Commission to provide CMRS within the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• Commission: means the State Corporation Commission. See Virginia Code 56-1
• company: includes all corporations created by acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, or under the general incorporation laws of this Commonwealth, or doing business therein, and shall exclude all municipal corporations, other political subdivisions, and public institutions owned or controlled by the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 56-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Coordinator: means the Virginia Public Safety Communications Systems Coordinator employed by the Division. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Division: means the Division of Public Safety Communications created in § 44-146. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• ESInet: means a shared public safety agency-managed Internet protocol (IP) network that (i) is used for emergency services communications, (ii) provides an IP transport infrastructure that is capable of carrying voice and data and that supports next generation 9-1-1 service core functions such as routing and location validation of emergency service requests, and (iii) is engineered, managed, and intended to support emergency public safety communications and 9-1-1 service. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• ESInet point of interconnection: means the demarcation point at which the NG9-1-1 Service Provider receives and assumes responsibility for 9-1-1 call traffic from originating service providers. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• 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.
• Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
• 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.
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Local exchange carrier: means any public service company granted a certificate to furnish public utility service for the provision of local exchange telephone service pursuant to Chapter 10. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• Local exchange telephone service: means telephone service provided in a geographical area established for the administration of communication services and consists of one or more central offices together with associated facilities which are used in providing local exchange service. See Virginia Code 56-1
• 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.
• Originating service provider: means the local exchange carrier, VoIP provider, or CMRS provider that serves the end user over which a 9-1-1 call, 9-8-8 call, call to the crisis call center, as defined in § 37. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• Person: includes individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. See Virginia Code 56-1
• Place of primary use: has the meaning as defined in the federal Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, 4 U. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
• PSAP: means a facility (i) equipped and staffed on a 24-hour basis to receive and process 9-1-1 calls or (ii) that intends to receive and process 9-1-1 calls and has notified CMRS providers in its jurisdiction of its intention to receive and process such calls. See Virginia Code 56-484.12
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
• Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July 1, 1971, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-254
• VoIP service: means interconnected voice over Internet protocol service as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Part 9, section 9. See Virginia Code 56-484.12