Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 39-21.1 - 911 Emergency Telephone Number Act

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Communications services: means the transmission of sounds, messages, data, information, codes, or signals between a point or points of origin and a point or points of reception. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Division: means the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Public agency: means the state government and any unit of local government or special purpose district located in whole or in part within the state that provides, or has authority to provide, firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Public safety agency: means a functional division of a public agency that provides firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Relay method: means the method of responding to a telephone request for emergency service whereby a public safety answering point notes pertinent information and relays it by telephone to the appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency services for dispatch of an emergency service unit. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Selective call routing: means a feature that routes a 911 call from a central office to the designated public safety answering point based upon the telephone number of the calling party. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Telephone common carrier: means any person, party, or entity that provides communications services for profit between a point of origin and a point of reception by way of a land-line wire connection between the two (2) points. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Wireless service: means communication services provided over spectrum licensed by or subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2