1999 Minnesota Statutes

     403.02 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Scope.  For the purposes of this 
 chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings 
 given them. 

    Subd. 2.    Metropolitan area.  "Metropolitan area" 
 means the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, 
 Scott, and Washington. 

    Subd. 3.    Public agency.  "Public agency" means any 
 unit of local government or special purpose district located in 
 whole or in part within this state which provides or has 
 authority to provide fire fighting, police, ambulance, medical, 
 or other emergency services. 

    Subd. 4.    Public safety agency.  "Public safety 
 agency" means a functional division of a public agency which 
 provides fire fighting, police, medical, or other emergency 
 services, or a private entity which provides emergency medical 
 or ambulance services. 

    Subd. 5.    Public safety answering point.  "Public 
 safety answering point" means a communications facility operated 
 on a 24 hour basis which first receives 911 calls from persons 
 in a 911 service area and which may, as appropriate, directly 
 dispatch public safety services or extend, transfer, or relay 
 911 calls to appropriate public safety agencies. 

    Subd. 6.    Minimum 911 service.  "Minimum 911 service" 
 means a telephone service meeting the design standards 
 established pursuant to section 403.07, which automatically 
 connects a person dialing the digits 911 to an established 
 public safety answering point.  Minimum 911 service includes (1) 
 equipment for connecting and outswitching 911 calls within a 
 telephone central office, trunking facilities from the central 
 office to a public safety answering point; (2) equipment, as 
 appropriate, for automatically selectively routing 911 calls in 
 situations where one telephone central office serves more than 
 one public safety answering point; and (3) provision of 
 automatic location identification if the public safety answering 
 point has the capability of providing that service. 

    Subd. 7.    Automatic location identification.  
 "Automatic location identification" means the process of 
 electronically identifying and displaying on a special viewing 
 screen the name of the subscriber and the address of the calling 
 telephone number to a person answering a 911 emergency call. 

    Subd. 8.    Local location identification.  "Local 
 location identification" means the process of locating the 
 origin of calls to a 911 system by means of a periodically 
 updated database located and maintained at the public safety 
 answering point. 

    Subd. 9.    Enhanced 911 service.  "Enhanced 911 service"
 means the use of selective routing, automatic location 
 identification, or local location identification as part of 
 local 911 service. 

    Subd. 10.    Commissioner.  "Commissioner" means the 
 commissioner of administration. 

    HIST: 1977 c 311 s 2; 1987 c 56 s 1,2; 1990 c 543 s 1; 1994 c 
 616 s 6; 1995 c 149 s 1; 1997 c 202 art 3 s 18,19; 3Sp1997 c 3 s 
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