N.Y. County Law 308 – Miscellaneous provisions
§ 308. Miscellaneous provisions. 1. At least one public service answering point within and serving the 911 service area of a municipality which has enacted a local law or resolution pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be operated on a twenty-four hour basis.
Terms Used In N.Y. County Law 308
- Board: means the board of supervisors of a county or an elected county legislative body or city legislative body by whatsoever name designated. See N.Y. County Law 301
- Municipality: means any county except a county wholly contained within a city and any city having a population of one million or more persons. See N.Y. County Law 301
- Public safety agency: means a functional division of a public agency which provides or has the authority to provide police, firefighting, emergency medical or ambulance services or other emergency services or a private entity which provides emergency medical or ambulance services. See N.Y. County Law 301
- Public service answering point: means a communications facility which first receives 911 calls from persons within a 911 service area and which may, as appropriate, directly dispatch the services of a public safety agency or extend, transfer, relay or otherwise route 911 calls to the appropriate public safety agency. See N.Y. County Law 301
2. The board may also apply for and accept federal monies and may accept contributions and donations from any source for the purpose of funding an E911 emergency telephone system.
3. Nothing contained in this article shall require the imposition of a surcharge by a municipality which has established or plans to establish an E911 system to serve such municipality nor preclude other means of funding all or part of an E911 system nor require the operation or establishment of such system by any municipality.
4. Records, in whatever form they may be kept, of calls made to a municipality's E911 system shall not be made available to or obtained by any entity or person, other than that municipality's public safety agency, another government agency or body, or a private entity or a person providing medical, ambulance or other emergency services, and shall not be utilized for any commercial purpose other than the provision of emergency services.