Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 10 > Chapter 4 - State Emergency Telephone System

• Access line: means a voice service of a provider of exchange access services, a wireless provider, or a provider of interconnected voice over IP service that has enabled and activated service for its subscriber to contact a public safety answering point via a 9-1-1 system by entering or dialing the digits 9-1-1. See Montana Code 10-4-101
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Commercial mobile radio service: means :

  (a)a mobile service that is:

  (i)provided for profit with the intent of receiving compensation or monetary gain;

  (ii)an interconnected service; and

  (iii)available to the public or to classes of eligible users so as to be effectively available to a substantial portion of the public; or

  (b)a mobile service that is the functional equivalent of a mobile service described in subsection (3)(a). See Montana Code 10-4-101

• Compensation: means any money or economic benefit conferred on or received by any person in return for services rendered or to be rendered by the person or another. See Montana Code 2-2-102
• Department: means the department of justice provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 20. See Montana Code 10-4-101
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• 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
• Employee: means a person in this state who is in the service of an employer or engaged in employment as defined in 39-2-101 or under any appointment or contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied. See Montana Code 7-1-4202
• Employer: means a person or entity in this state that has one or more employees. See Montana Code 7-1-4202
• Employment benefit: means anything of value or any type of compensation, other than wages, provided by an employer to an employee without regard to whether the employer places a monetary value on the benefit or whether the benefit is subject to taxation. See Montana Code 7-1-4202
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Exchange access services: means :

  (a)telephone exchange access lines or channels that provide local access from the premises of a subscriber in this state to the local telecommunications network to effect the transfer of information; and

  (b)unless a separate tariff rate is charged for the exchange access lines or channels, a facility or service provided in connection with the services described in subsection (7)(a). See Montana Code 10-4-101

• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Local government: has the meaning provided in 7-11-1002. See Montana Code 10-4-101
• Originating service provider: means an entity that provides capability for a retail customer to initiate emergency communications. See Montana Code 10-4-101
• Political subdivision: means a local government unit, including but not limited to a county, city, or town established under authority of Article XI, section 1 or 6, of the Montana constitution. See Montana Code 7-1-4202
• Prepaid wireless service: means a commercial mobile radio service that:

  (a)allows a subscriber to use a 9-1-1 system to engage in emergency communications; and

  (b)is paid for in advance and sold in predetermined units or dollars of which the number declines with use in a known amount, including prepaid wireless phone cards, recharge or refill authorization codes, and prepaid cell phones or other prepaid wireless devices preloaded with airtime minutes. See Montana Code 10-4-101

• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Private interest: means an interest held by an individual that is:

  (a)an ownership interest in a business;

  (b)a creditor interest in an insolvent business;

  (c)an employment or prospective employment for which negotiations have begun;

  (d)an ownership interest in real property;

  (e)a loan or other debtor interest; or

  (f)a directorship or officership in a business. See Montana Code 2-2-102

• Private safety agency: means an entity, except a public safety agency, providing emergency fire, ambulance, or medical services. See Montana Code 10-4-101
• Provider: means a public utility, a cooperative telephone company, a wireless provider, a provider of interconnected voice over IP service, a provider of exchange access services, or any other entity that provides access lines. See Montana Code 10-4-101
• Public employee: means :

  (a)any temporary or permanent employee of the state, including an employee of the judicial branch;

  (b)any temporary or permanent employee of a local government;

  (c)a member of a quasi-judicial board or commission or of a board, commission, or committee with rulemaking authority; and

  (d)a person under contract to the state. See Montana Code 2-2-102

• Public officer: includes any state officer and any elected officer of a local government. See Montana Code 2-2-102
• 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
• Seller: means a person who owns or operates a business that sells prepaid wireless services directly to a subscriber. See Montana Code 10-4-101
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Subscriber: means :

  (a)an end user who has an access line or who contracts with a wireless provider for commercial mobile radio services; or

  (b)a customer who purchases prepaid wireless services from a seller in a transaction. See Montana Code 10-4-101

• Transaction: means the purchase of prepaid wireless service from a seller for any purpose other than resale. See Montana Code 10-4-101
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• 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
• Tribal government: has the meaning provided in 2-15-141. See Montana Code 10-4-101
• Wireless provider: means an entity that is authorized by the federal communications commission to provide facilities-based commercial mobile radio service within this state. See Montana Code 10-4-101