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[CITE: 47USC615a]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER VI--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 615a. Parity of protection for provision or use of wireless 
        service
        

(a) Provider parity

    A wireless carrier, and its officers, directors, employees, vendors, 
and agents, shall have immunity or other protection from liability in a 
State of a scope and extent that is not less than the scope and extent 
of immunity or other protection from liability that any local exchange 
company, and its officers, directors, employees, vendors, or agents, 
have under Federal and State law (whether through statute, judicial 
decision, tariffs filed by such local exchange company, or otherwise) 
applicable in such State, including in connection with an act or 
omission involving the release to a PSAP, emergency medical service 
provider or emergency dispatch provider, public safety, fire service or 
law enforcement official, or hospital emergency or trauma care facility 
of subscriber information related to emergency calls or emergency 
services.

(b) User parity

    A person using wireless 9-1-1 service shall have immunity or other 
protection from liability of a scope and extent that is not less than 
the scope and extent of immunity or other protection from liability 
under applicable law in similar circumstances of a person using 9-1-1 
service that is not wireless.

(c) PSAP parity

    In matters related to wireless 9-1-1 communications, a PSAP, and its 
employees, vendors, agents, and authorizing government entity (if any) 
shall have immunity or other protection from liability of a scope and 
extent that is not less than the scope and extent of immunity or other 
protection from liability under applicable law accorded to such PSAP, 
employees, vendors, agents, and authorizing government entity, 
respectively, in matters related to 9-1-1 communications that are not 
wireless.

(d) Basis for enactment

    This section is enacted as an exercise of the enforcement power of 
the Congress under section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the 
Constitution and the power of the Congress to regulate commerce with 
foreign nations, among the several States, and with Indian tribes.

(Pub. L. 106-81, Sec. 4, Oct. 26, 1999, 113 Stat. 1288.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Wireless Communications and 
Public Safety Act of 1999, and not as part of the Communications Act of 
1934 which comprises this chapter.
