Section 301. Definitions

When used in this article, the following words and
  phrases  shall  have  the following meanings unless the specific context
  clearly indicates otherwise:
    1. "Municipality" means any county except a  county  wholly  contained
  within  a  city  and any city having a population of one million or more
  persons.
    2. "Board" means the board of supervisors of a county  or  an  elected
  county  legislative  body  or  city  legislative body by whatsoever name
  designated.
    3. "E911 system" means an enhanced emergency telephone  service  which
  automatically   connects  a  person  dialing  the  digits  9-1-1  to  an
  established public service answering point and which shall include,  but
  not  be  limited  to, selective routing, automatic number identification
  and automatic location identification.
    4. "911 service area" means the area within the geographic  boundaries
  of a county which has established an E911 system.
    5.  "Public  safety  agency"  means  a functional division of a public
  agency  which  provides  or  has  the  authority  to   provide   police,
  firefighting, emergency medical or ambulance services or other emergency
  services  or  a  private  entity  which  provides  emergency  medical or
  ambulance services.
    6. "Public service answering point" means  a  communications  facility
  which  first  receives  911 calls from persons within a 911 service area
  and which may, as appropriate,  directly  dispatch  the  services  of  a
  public  safety  agency or extend, transfer, relay or otherwise route 911
  calls to the appropriate public safety agency.
    *7. "Service supplier" means a telephone  corporation  which  provides
  local exchange access service within a 911 service area.
    * NB Effective until January 1, 2010
    * 7.  "Service  supplier"  means  (i)  a  telephone  corporation which
  provides local exchange access service within a  911  service  area,  or
  (ii)  a  provider  of  "voice  over  internet protocol service" or "VOIP
  service" that provides such service within a 911 service area.
    * NB Effective January 1, 2010
    8. "System costs"  means  the  costs  associated  with  obtaining  and
  maintaining   the   telecommunication   equipment,  all  operations  and
  maintenance  costs  and  the  telephone  services  costs  necessary   to
  establish and provide an E911 system.
    9. "Wireless communications device" means any equipment used to access
  a wireless communications service.
    10.  "Wireless  communications  service"  means  all commercial mobile
  services, as that term is defined in section 332(d) of title 47,  United
  States  Code,  as  amended from time to time, including, but not limited
  to, all  broadband  personal  communications  services,  wireless  radio
  telephone services, geographic area specialized and enhanced specialized
  mobile  radio services, and incumbent-wide area specialized mobile radio
  licensees, which offer real time, two-way voice or data service that  is
  interconnected  with  the public switched telephone network or otherwise
  provides access to emergency communications services.
    11.  "Place  of  primary  use"   shall   mean   the   street   address
  representative  of where a wireless communications customer's use of the
  wireless telecommunications service primarily occurs, and must  be:  (i)
  the residential street address or the primary business street address of
  the  wireless  communications  customer  and  (ii)  within  the licensed
  service area of the wireless communications service supplier.
    12. "Wireless communications service supplier"  means  any  commercial
  entity  that  operates  a  wireless  communications  service in New York
  state.

    * 13. "Voice over internet protocol service" or "VOIP  service"  shall
  mean   any   service   that   (i)   enables   real-time,  two-way  voice
  communications; (ii) requires a broadband  connection  from  the  user's
  location;  (iii) requires internet protocol compatible customer premises
  equipment  (CPE); and (iv) permits users generally to receive calls that
  originate on the public switched  telephone  network  and  to  terminate
  calls to the public switched telephone network.
    * NB Effective January 1, 2010