Sec. 28-25a. Responsibilities of telephone companies and municipalities. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 28-25a. Responsibilities of telephone companies and municipalities. (a) In order to establish state-wide enhanced 9-1-1 service, every telephone company providing service within the state shall provide, not later than December 31, 1989, selective routing, automatic number identification and automatic location identification features as a tariffed service in compliance with a time schedule approved by the office.

      (b) Each municipality shall, not later than December 31, 1989, establish and operate a public safety answering point which utilizes enhanced 9-1-1 network features.

      (c) No provision of section 28-25, this section and sections 28-25b, 28-26, 28-27, 28-27a, 28-28, 28-28a, 28-28b, 28-29, 28-29a and 28-29b shall be construed to prohibit or discourage in any manner the formation of multiagency, multijurisdictional or regional public safety answering points. Any public safety answering point established pursuant to said sections may serve the jurisdiction of more than one public agency or a segment of the jurisdiction of a municipality.

      (P.A. 84-416, S. 2, 15; P.A. 90-230, S. 43, 101; P.A. 93-206, S. 7, 16.)

      History: P.A. 90-230 deleted internal references in Subsec. (c); P.A. 93-206 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute "office" for "bureau", effective July 1, 1993.

      Cited. 223 C. 731.