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[CITE: 47USC615b]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER VI--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 615b. Definitions

    As used in this Act:

                            (1) Secretary

        The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Transportation.

                              (2) State

        The term ``State'' means any of the several States, the District 
    of Columbia, or any territory or possession of the United States.

               (3) Public safety answering point; PSAP

        The term ``public safety answering point'' or ``PSAP'' means a 
    facility that has been designated to receive 9-1-1 calls and route 
    them to emergency service personnel.

                        (4) Wireless carrier

        The term ``wireless carrier'' means a provider of commercial 
    mobile services or any other radio communications service that the 
    Federal Communications Commission requires to provide wireless 9-1-1 
    service.

                 (5) Enhanced wireless 9-1-1 service

        The term ``enhanced wireless 9-1-1 service'' means any enhanced 
    9-1-1 service so designated by the Federal Communications Commission 
    in the proceeding entitled ``Revision of the Commission's Rules to 
    Ensure Compatibility with Enhanced 9-1-1 Emergency Calling Systems'' 
    (CC Docket No. 94-102; RM-8143), or any successor proceeding.

                     (6) Wireless 9-1-1 service

        The term ``wireless 9-1-1 service'' means any 9-1-1 service 
    provided by a wireless carrier, including enhanced wireless 9-1-1 
    service.

                  (7) Emergency dispatch providers

        The term ``emergency dispatch providers'' shall include 
    governmental and nongovernmental providers of emergency dispatch 
    services.

(Pub. L. 106-81, Sec. 6, Oct. 26, 1999, 113 Stat. 1289.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 106-81, Oct. 26, 1999, 113 
Stat. 1286, known as the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act 
of 1999, which enacted sections 615 to 615b of this title, amended 
sections 222 and 251 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as 
notes under sections 609 and 615 of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1999 
Amendments note set out under section 609 of this title and Tables.

                          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.
