§ 4.08.010. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

"911 service area" or "enhanced 911 service area" means the city has been designated to receive an enhanced 911 system. An area designated to receive an enhanced 911 system is not a "service area" under Article X, Section 5, of the Alaska Constitution.

"Enhanced 911 equipment" means any equipment dedicated to the operation of, or use in, the establishment, operation or maintenance of an enhanced 911 system, including customer premises equipment, automatic number identification, automatic location identification controllers and display units, printers, cathode ray tubes, recorders, software and other essential communication equipment.

"Enhanced 911 system" or "system" means a telephone system consisting of network, database and enhanced 911 equipment that uses the single three-digit number, 911, for reporting medical, fire, police, or other emergency situation, and which enables the users of a public telephone system to reach a public safety answering point or report emergencies by dialing 911. An enhanced 911 system includes the personnel required to acquire, install, operate and maintain the system.

"Local exchange access line" means a telephone line that connects a local exchange service customer to the wireline telephone company switching office and that has the capability of reaching local public safety agencies, but does not include a line used by a carrier to provide inter-exchange services. However, the local exchange access lines shall not include public pay phones, inter-office trunks, toll trunks and direct inward dialing trunks.

"Local exchange service" means the transmission of two-way interactive switched voice communications furnished by a local exchange telephone company within the city including access to enhanced 911 systems.

"Local exchange telephone company" or "wireline telephone company" means any telephone utility certified to provide local exchange service or wireline telephone service in the city by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.

"Public safety answering point" means a twenty-four (24) hour local communications facility that receives 911 service calls and directly dispatches emergency response services or that relays calls to the appropriate public or private safety agency.

"Surcharge" means an enhanced 911 system surcharge imposed on wireline and wireless telephones for support of an enhanced 911 system.

"Wireless telephone company" means any telephone company that provides wireless telephone service through cellular, satellite, broadband, radio-based telephone, or data transport service, and bills or sells wireless telephone service to a customer with an address in the city.

"Wireless telephone" means any telephone that is not a wireline telephone that is capable of communication with another device by use of radio waves or satellite signal, which includes cellular, mobile, radio-based, and broadband telephones. Each wireless telephone is considered a separate wireless telephone for purposes of the surcharge.

"Wireline telephone" means any telephone that uses a local exchange access line.

(Ord. No. 12-11-08, § 4)