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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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(c) The General Assembly is concerned that avoidable delays
in reaching appropriate emergency aid are occurring to the
jeopardy of life and property.
(d) The General Assembly acknowledges that the three digit
number, 911, is a nationally recognized and applied telephone
number which may be used to summon emergency aid and to eliminate
delays caused by lack of familiarity with emergency numbers and
by understandable confusion in circumstances of crisis.
(e) It is the purpose of this subtitle to establish the
three digit number, 911, as the primary emergency telephone
number for the State of Maryland and to provide for the orderly
installation, MAINTENANCE, AND OPERATION of 911 systems within
the State.
(f) In this subtitle, the following words and terms have
the meanings indicated:
(1) "County" means any of the 23 counties of Maryland
and Baltimore City.
(2) "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the State
Treasury.
(3) "Board" means the Emergency Number Systems Board.
(4) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the State
Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
(5) "911 system" means a telephone service which
meets the planning guidelines established pursuant to Section
204H-3 of this subtitle, and which automatically connects a
person dialing the digits 911 to an established public safety
answering point. 911 system includes equipment for connecting
and outswitching 911 calls within a telephone central office,
trunking facilities from the central office to a public safety
answering point, and equipment to connect 911 calls to the
appropriate public safety agency.
(6) "Public safety answering point" means a
communications facility operated on a 24 hour basis which first
receives 911 calls from persons in a 911 service area and which
may, as appropriate, directly dispatch public safety services or
extend, transfer, or relay 911 calls to appropriate public safety
agencies.
(7) "Public safety agency" means a functional
division of a public agency which provides fire fighting, police,
medical, or other emergency services or a private entity which
provides such services on a voluntary basis.
(8) "Enhancement" means any addition to a 911 system
such as automatic number identification, automatic location
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