Terms Used In Virginia Code 56-484.22

• MLTS: means a telephone system, including network-based or premises-based systems, whether owned or leased by a public or private entity, operated in the Commonwealth, that serves a facility, has more than one telephone station, and is comprised of common control units, telephones, and control hardware and software that share a common interface to the public switched telephone network, whether by a private branch exchange or central office system, without regard to whether the system utilizes VoIP technology. See Virginia Code 56-484.19
• MLTS provider: means a person who operates a facility at which telephone service is provided, with or without compensation, through a multiline telephone system. See Virginia Code 56-484.19
• PSAP: means a communications operation operated by or on behalf of a governmental entity that is equipped and staffed on a 24-hour basis to receive and process telephone calls for emergency assistance from an individual by dialing, in addition to any digits required to obtain an outside line, the digits "9-1-1. See Virginia Code 56-484.19
• Public switched telephone network: means the worldwide, interconnected networks of equipment, lines, and controls assembled to establish circuit-switched voice communication paths between calling and called parties. See Virginia Code 56-484.19
• Telephone call: means the use of a telephone to initiate an ordinary voice transmission placed through the public switched telephone network. See Virginia Code 56-484.19