Georgia CommonsTitle 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 5. TELEPHONE SERVICE · Article 2. TELEPHONE SERVICE · Part 4. EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER 9-1-1 SYSTEM
46-5-127. Approval of 9-1-1 systems by agency; written confirmation by authority required for 9-1-1 systems established.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.
- (a)
After January 1, 1978, and prior to January 1, 2019, no emergency 9-1-1 system shall be established, and no existing system shall be expanded to provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service, without written confirmation by the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency that the local plan conforms to the guidelines and procedures provided for in Code Section 46-5-124.#
- (b)
On or after January 1, 2019, and prior to July 1, 2025, no emergency 9-1-1 system shall be established, and no existing system shall be expanded to provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service, without written confirmation by the authority that the local plan conforms to the guidelines and procedures provided for in Code Section 46-5-124. The authority shall not deny the establishment of a new system or an expansion to provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service if the local plan conforms to the guidelines and procedures provided for in Code Section 46-5-124.#
- (c)
On or after July 1, 2025, no emergency 9-1-1 system shall be established, and no existing system shall be expanded to provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service or NG9-1-1 service, without written confirmation by the authority that the local plan conforms to the guidelines and procedures provided for in Code Section 46-5-124. The authority shall not deny establishment of a new system or an expansion to provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service or NG9-1-1 service if the local plan conforms to the guidelines and procedures provided for in Code Section 46-5-124.#
History
Ga. L. 1977, p. 1040, § 8; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1017, § 6; Ga. L. 2005, p. 660, § 9/HB 470; Ga. L. 2007, p. 318, § 2/HB 394; Ga. L. 2018, p. 689, § 2-6/HB 751; Ga. L. 2025, p. 213, § 2-4/HB 423, effective July 1, 2025.
Amendments
The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, in subsection (b), inserted “and prior to July 1, 2025,” in the first sentence and substituted “deny the” for “deny” in the second sentence; and added subsection (c).
Editor's notes
Ga. L. 2018, p. 689, § 4-1(b)/HB 751, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “The provisions of this Act shall not in any manner diminish, extinguish, reduce, or affect any cause of action for audits, services, or the recovery of funds from service providers which may have existed prior to January 1, 2019. Any such cause of action is expressly preserved.”
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.
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