10-4-103. Emergency telephone system requirements. (1) Every public and private safety agency in this state may establish or participate in an emergency telephone system.
     (2) An emergency telephone system must include:
     (a) a 24-hour communications facility automatically accessible anywhere in the 9-1-1 jurisdiction's service area by dialing 9-1-1;
     (b) direct dispatch of public and private safety services in the 9-1-1 jurisdiction or relay or transfer of 9-1-1 calls to an appropriate public or private safety agency; and
     (c) a 24-hour communications facility equipped with at least two trunk-hunting local access circuits provided by the local telephone company's central office.
     (3) The primary emergency telephone number within the state is 9-1-1, but a public safety answering point shall maintain both a separate seven-digit secondary emergency number for use by the telephone company operator and a separate seven-digit nonemergency number.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 635, L. 1985.