Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Emergency Telephone Communications Systems Act

• Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Automatic location identification: means a feature by which the name and address associated with the calling party's telephone number is forwarded to the public safety answering point for display. See Nebraska Statutes 86-423
• Automatic number identification: means a feature by which the calling party's automatic number identification telephone number is forwarded to the E-911 control office and to the public safety answering point's display and transfer units. See Nebraska Statutes 86-424
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Governing body: means the county board, the city council of a city, the board of trustees of a village, or the board of directors of any rural or suburban fire protection district. See Nebraska Statutes 86-426
• 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.
• Month: shall mean calendar month. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Primary place of use: means the residential or business street address that is representative of the primary location of the customer's use of a service that includes the provision of 911 service. See Nebraska Statutes 86-429.01
• Public safety agency: means an agency which actually provides firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, emergency medical, or other emergency services. See Nebraska Statutes 86-430
• Public safety answering point: means a twenty-four-hour, local-jurisdiction communications facility which receives 911 service calls and either directly dispatches emergency services or relays calls to the appropriate public safety agency. See Nebraska Statutes 86-431
• Service supplier: means any person providing 911 service in this state. See Nebraska Statutes 86-432
• Service surcharge: means a charge set by a governing body and assessed on each telephone number or functional equivalent of service users whose primary place of use is within the governing body's designated 911 service area, with the exception of those service users served by wireless carriers as defined in section Nebraska Statutes 86-433
• Service user: means any person who is provided 911 service in this state. See Nebraska Statutes 86-434
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801