2004 Minnesota Statutes

     403.025 911 emergency telecommunications system required. 

    Subdivision 1.    General requirement.  Each county 
 shall operate and maintain a 911 emergency telecommunications 
 system. 

    Subd. 1a.    Emergency telephone number 911.  The digits 
 911, so designated by the Federal Communications Commission, 
 must be the primary emergency telephone number within the 
 system.  A public safety agency may maintain a separate 
 secondary backup number for emergency calls and shall maintain a 
 separate number for nonemergency telephone calls. 

    Subd. 2.    Multijurisdictional system.  The 911 systems 
 may be multijurisdictional and regional in character provided 
 that design and implementation are preceded by cooperative 
 planning on a county-by-county basis with local public safety 
 agencies. 

    Subd. 3.    Wire-line requirements.  Every owner and 
 operator of a wire-line telecommunications system shall design 
 and maintain the system to dial the 911 number without charge to 
 the caller. 

    Subd. 4.    Wireless requirements.  Every owner and 
 operator of a wireless telecommunications system shall design 
 and maintain the system to dial the 911 number without charge to 
 the caller. 

    Subd. 5.    Pay phone requirements.  Every pay phone 
 owner and operator shall permit dialing of the 911 number 
 without coin and without charge to the caller. 

    Subd. 6.    Multistation or PBX system.  Every owner and 
 operator of a multistation or private branch exchange (PBX) 
 multiline telephone system shall design and maintain the system 
 to dial the 911 number without charge to the caller. 

    Subd. 7.    Contractual requirements.  (a) The state, 
 together with the county or other governmental agencies 
 operating public safety answering points, shall contract with 
 the appropriate wire-line telecommunications service providers 
 for the operation, maintenance, enhancement, and expansion of 
 the 911 system. 

    (b) The state shall contract with the appropriate wireless 
 telecommunications service providers for maintaining, enhancing, 
 and expanding the 911 system. 

    (c) The contract language or subsequent amendments to the 
 contract must include a description of the services to be 
 furnished by wireless and wire-line telecommunications service 
 providers to the county or other governmental agencies operating 
 public safety answering points, as well as compensation based on 
 the effective tariff or price list approved by the public 
 utilities commission.  The contract language or subsequent 
 amendments must include the terms of compensation based on the 
 effective tariff or price list filed with the public utilities 
 commission or the prices agreed to by the parties. 

    (d) The contract language or subsequent amendments to 
 contracts between the parties must contain a provision for 
 resolving disputes. 

    HIST: 1977 c 311 s 1; 2002 c 372 s 1; 2004 c 282 s 2