2005 Minnesota Statutes

     403.07 Standards established; data privacy. 

    Subdivision 1.    Rules.  The commissioner shall 
 establish and adopt in accordance with chapter 14, rules for the 
 administration of this chapter and for the development of 911 
 systems in the state including: 

    (1) design standards for 911 systems incorporating the 
 standards adopted pursuant to subdivision 2 for the seven-county 
 metropolitan area; and 

    (2) a procedure for determining and evaluating requests for 
 variations from the established design standards. 

    Subd. 2.    Design standards for metropolitan area.  The 
 Metropolitan 911 Board shall establish and adopt design 
 standards for the metropolitan area 911 system and transmit them 
 to the commissioner for incorporation into the rules adopted 
 pursuant to this section. 

    Subd. 3.    Database.  In 911 systems that have been 
 approved by the commissioner for a local location identification 
 database, each wire-line telecommunications service provider 
 shall provide current customer names, service addresses, and 
 telephone numbers to each public safety answering point within 
 the 911 system and shall update the information according to a 
 schedule prescribed by the county 911 plan.  Information 
 provided under this subdivision must be provided in accordance 
 with the transactional record disclosure requirements of the 
 federal Communications Act of 1932, United States Code, title 
 47, section 222, subsection (g).  

    Subd. 4.    Use of furnished information.  Names, 
 addresses, and telephone numbers provided to a 911 system under 
 subdivision 3 are private data and may be used only for 
 identifying the location or identity, or both, of a person 
 calling a 911 public safety answering point.  The information 
 furnished under subdivision 3 may not be used or disclosed by 
 911 system agencies, their agents, or their employees for any 
 other purpose except under a court order.  

    Subd. 5.    Liability.  (a) A wire-line 
 telecommunications service provider, its employees, or its 
 agents are not liable to any person who uses enhanced 911 
 telecommunications service for release of subscriber information 
 required under this chapter to any public safety answering point.

    (b) A wire-line telecommunications service provider is not 
 liable to any person for the good faith release to emergency 
 communications personnel of information not in the public 
 record, including, but not limited to, nonpublished or nonlisted 
 telephone numbers.  

    (c) A wire-line telecommunications service provider, its 
 employees, or its agents are not liable to any person for civil 
 damages resulting from or caused by any act or omission in the 
 development, design, installation, operation, maintenance, 
 performance, or provision of enhanced 911 telecommunications 
 service, except for willful or wanton misconduct. 

    (d) A multiline telephone system manufacturer, provider, or 
 operator is not liable for any civil damages or penalties as a 
 result of any act or omission, except willful or wanton 
 misconduct, in connection with developing, designing, 
 installing, maintaining, performing, provisioning, adopting, 
 operating, or implementing any plan or system required by 
 section 403.15.  

    HIST: 1977 c 311 s 7; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1990 c 543 s 2,3; 1991 
 c 319 s 21; 1994 c 618 art 1 s 38; 1995 c 149 s 2; 2002 c 372 s 
 9; 1Sp2003 c 1 art 2 s 104-106; 2004 c 282 s 8; 2005 c 136 art 
 10 s 10