Montana Code 10-4-119. Public safety agencies and public safety answering points — notification of service requests
Current as of: 2023 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
10-4-119. Public safety agencies and public safety answering points — notification of service requests. A public safety answering point must immediately notify a public safety agency with jurisdictional responsibilities of a request for service in the agency’s jurisdiction, even when the answering point does not dispatch emergency services, and transfer or relay emergency communications to that public safety agency.
Terms Used In Montana Code 10-4-119
- Emergency communications: means any form of communication requesting any type of emergency services by contacting a public safety answering point through a 9-1-1 system, including voice, nonvoice, or video communications, as well as transmission of any text message or analog digital data. See Montana Code 10-4-101
- Emergency services: means services provided by a public or private safety agency, including law enforcement, firefighting, ambulance or medical services, and civil defense services. See Montana Code 10-4-101
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Public safety agency: means a functional division of a local or tribal government or the state that dispatches or provides law enforcement, firefighting, or emergency medical services or other emergency services. See Montana Code 10-4-101
- Public safety answering point: means a communications facility operated on a 24-hour basis that first receives emergency communications from persons requesting emergency services and that may, as appropriate, directly dispatch emergency services or transfer or relay the emergency communications to appropriate public safety agencies. See Montana Code 10-4-101
- Relay: means a 9-1-1 service in which a public safety answering point, upon receipt of a telephone request for emergency services, notes the pertinent information from the caller and relays the information to the appropriate public safety agency, other agencies, or other providers of emergency services for dispatch of an emergency unit. See Montana Code 10-4-101
- Transfer: means a service in which a public safety answering point, upon receipt of a telephone request for emergency services, directly transfers the request to an appropriate public safety agency or other emergency services provider. See Montana Code 10-4-101