As used in this act:

1. "Basic system" means a telephone service which automatically connects a person dialing the primary emergency telephone number to an established public safety answering point through normal telephone service facilities;

2. "Department" means the Department of Public Safety;

3. "Direct dispatch method" means a method whereby a call over a basic or sophisticated system is connected to a centralized dispatch center providing for the dispatching of an appropriate emergency service unit upon receipt of a telephone request for such services and a decision as to the proper action to be taken;

4. "Methods", as used in paragraphs 3, 8, 9 and 11 of this section, means the procedures to be followed by the public agency or public safety agency affected by such paragraphs;

5. "Primary emergency telephone number" means the digits nine-one-one (911);

6. "Public agency" means any agency or political subdivision of the state which provides or has authority to provide fire fighting, police, ambulance, medical or other emergency services;

7. "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a public agency which provides fire fighting, police, medical or other emergency services;

8. "Referral method" means a method whereby a call over a basic or sophisticated system results in providing the requesting party with the telephone number of the appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency services;

9. "Relay method" means a method whereby a call over a basic or sophisticated system results in pertinent information being noted by the recipient of a telephone request for emergency services and is relayed to appropriate public safety agencies or other providers of emergency services for dispatch of an emergency service unit;

10. "Sophisticated system" means a basic system with the additional capability of automatic identification of the caller's number, holding the incoming call, reconnection on the same telephone line, clearing a telephone line or automatic call routing or combinations of such capabilities; and

11. "Transfer method" means a method whereby a call over a basic or sophisticated system is received and directly transferred to an appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency services.

Laws 1979, c. 176, § 2, emerg. eff. May 16, 1979.