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...Each county shall appoint a county 9-1-1 coordinator to serve as the administrative coordinator for all public safety answering points participating in the countywide 9-1-1 final plan described in section 128.03 of the Revised Code and shall also serve as a liaison with other county coordinators and the 9-1-1 program office.

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, every county shall maintain a county 9-1-1 program review committee, which shall serve without compensation and shall consist of six voting members as follows: (1) A member of the board of county commissioners, or a designee, who shall serve as chairperson of the committee; (2) The chief executive officer of the most populous municipal corporation...

...(A) The final plan required under section 128.06 of the Revised Code shall specify: (1) Which telephone companies serving customers in the county and, as authorized in division (A) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, in an adjacent county will participate in the 9-1-1 system; (2) The location and number of public safety answering points; how the public safety answering points will be connected to a county's ...

...(A) Within sixty days after receipt of the final plan pursuant to division (B)(1) of section 128.07 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of the county and the legislative authority of each municipal corporation in the county and of each township whose territory is proposed to be included in a countywide 9-1-1 system shall act by resolution to approve or disapprove the plan, except that, with respect...

...(A) An amended final plan is required for any of the following purposes: (1) Expanding the territory included in the countywide 9-1-1 system; (2) Upgrading any part or all of the countywide 9-1-1 system; (3) Adjusting the territory served by a public safety answering point; (4) Permitting a regional council of governments to operate a public safety answering point; (5) Represcribing the funding of publ...

...There is hereby created within the department of administrative services the 9-1-1 program office, headed by an administrator in the unclassified civil service pursuant to division (A)(9) of section 124.11 of the Revised Code. The administrator shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the director of administrative services. The program office shall oversee administration of the 9-1-1 government assistance ...

...(A) The 9-1-1 program office shall coordinate and manage a statewide next generation 9-1-1 core services system. The office shall interoperate the system with Canada and the states that border this state. The office shall also manage the vendors supplying the equipment and services for the system to the department of administrative services. (B)(1) The statewide next generation 9-1-1 core services system shall be ...

...(A) Not later than six months after the effective date of this section , the 9-1-1 program office shall draft, submit, or update a state of Ohio 9-1-1 plan to the steering committee. The plan shall include all of the following: (1) A specific plan to address the amendments to this chapter by this act ; (2) Specific system details describing interoperability among counties, the states bordering this state, and C...

...(A) Any entity in this state that operates a 9-1-1 system, emergency services internet-protocol network, or public safety answering point and that pursues a 9-1-1 grant from the state or federal government shall present a letter of coordination from the 9-1-1 program office. (B) The letter of coordination shall state all of the following: (1) The entity described in division (A) of this section; (2) The spec...

...(A) The data described in section 128.22 of the Revised Code shall be protected in accordance with applicable provisions of the Revised Code. Charges, terms, and conditions for the disclosure or use of that data provided by public safety answering points, service providers, and emergency service providers for the purpose of 9-1-1 shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the steering committee. (B) Data and informat...

...(A) Every telecommunication service provider able to generate 9-1-1 traffic within the state shall do all of the following: (1) Register with the 9-1-1 program office; (2) Provide a single point of contact to the 9-1-1 program office who has the authority to assist in location-data discrepancies, including 9-1-1 traffic misroutes and no-record-found errors; (3) Provide location data for all 9-1-1 traffic wit...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section: (1) Each operator of a multiline telephone system that was installed or substantially renovated on or after the effective date of this section , shall provide to the end user the same level of 9-1-1 service that is provided to other end users of 9-1-1 within the state. That service shall include the provision of either of the following, which shall satisfy th...

...Beginning not later than one year after the effective date of this section and except as provided in sections 128.242 and 128.243 of the Revised Code, a business service user that provides residential or business facilities, owns or controls a multiline telephone system or voice over internet protocol system in those facilities, and provides outbound dialing capacity from those facilities shall ensure both of the fol...

...Except as provided in section 128.243 of the Revised Code, a business service user to which all of the following apply is exempt from the requirements of section 128.241 of the Revised Code until two years after the effective date of this section : (A) The requirements would be unduly and unreasonably burdensome. (B) The multiline telephone system or voice over internet protocol system needs to be reprogrammed ...

...Sections 128.241 and 128.242 of the Revised Code shall not apply if they are preempted by or in conflict with federal law.

...Each county shall provide a single point of contact to the 9-1-1 program office who has the authority to assist in location-data discrepancies, 9-1-1 traffic misroutes, and boundary disputes between public safety answering points.

...Not later than five years after the date that the statewide next generation 9-1-1 core services system is operationally available to all counties in the state, each county or, as applicable, each regional council of governments, shall provide next generation 9-1-1 service for all areas to be covered as set forth in the county's final plan or the council's agreement.

...A service provider that operates within a county that participates in the statewide next generation 9-1-1 core services system or within the area served by a regional council of governments that participates in that system shall deliver the 9-1-1 traffic that originates in that geographic area to the next generation 9-1-1 core for that geographic area.

...If a service provider or county participates in the statewide next generation 9-1-1 core services system, the service provider or county shall adhere to standards of the 9-1-1 program office, which may include standards created by the national emergency number association and the internet engineering task force.

...(A) In accordance with this chapter and Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., and 4909. of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall determine the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for the wireline telephone network portion of a basic or enhanced 9-1-1 system, and each telephone company that is a wireline service provider participati...

...(A)(1) For the purpose of paying the costs of establishing, equipping, and furnishing one or more public safety answering points as part of a countywide 9-1-1 system effective under division (B) of section 128.08 of the Revised Code and paying the expense of administering and enforcing this section, the board of county commissioners of a county, in accordance with this section, may fix and impose, on each lot or parc...

...(A) This section applies only to a county that meets both of the following conditions: (1) A final plan for a countywide 9-1-1 system either has not been approved in the county under section 128.08 of the Revised Code or has been approved but has not been put into operation because of a lack of funding; (2) The board of county commissioners, at least once, has submitted to the electors of the county the questio...

...(A) This section applies only to a county that has a final plan for a countywide 9-1-1 system that either has not been approved in the county under section 128.08 of the Revised Code or has been approved but has not been put into operation because of a lack of funding. (B) A board of county commissioners may adopt a resolution imposing a monthly charge on telephone access lines to pay for the operating and equipme...

...(A) As part of its normal monthly billing process, each telephone company with customers in the area served by a 9-1-1 system shall bill and collect from those customers any charge imposed under section 128.37 or 128.38 of the Revised Code. The company may list the charge as a separate entry on each bill and may indicate on the bill that the charge is made pursuant to approval of a ballot issue by county voters. Any ...

...(A) Ending January 1, 2024, there are hereby imposed the following wireless 9-1-1 charges: (1) On each wireless telephone number of a wireless service subscriber who has a billing address in this state, a charge of twenty-five cents per month. The subscriber shall pay the wireless 9-1-1 charge for each such wireless telephone number assigned to the subscriber. Each wireless service provider and each reseller shall...