§ 3.30.040. Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
"911 service area" and "enhanced 911 service area" mean the area within the NANA Region that has been designated to receive an enhanced 911 system. An area designated to receive an enhanced 911 system under this chapter is not a service area under Article X, Section 5, of the State Constitution.
"Amounts collected" means amounts billed, less amount written off, plus net recoveries of amounts previously written off. Based on collection experience, this may be initially calculated on an estimated basis with periodic adjustments to reflect actual experience.
"Customer," as used in KMC Section 3.30.010, means each separately billed account. Each wireless telephone number constitutes a separate customer for purposes of this surcharge.
"Enhanced 911 equipment" means any equipment dedicated to the operation of, or use in, the establishment, operation or maintenance of an enhanced 911 system, including customer premises equipment, automatic number identification or automatic location identification controllers and display units, printers, cathode ray tubes, recorders, software and other essential communication equipment.
"Enhanced 911 system" and "system" mean a telephone system consisting of network, database and enhanced 911 equipment that use the single three-digit number, "911," for reporting a police, fire, medical or other emergency situation, and which enables the users of a public telephone system to reach a public safety answering point to report emergencies by dialing 911. An enhanced 911 system includes the personnel required to acquire, install, operate and maintain the system.
"Local exchange access line" or "local access line" means a telephone line that connects a local exchange service customer to the wireline telephone company switching office and has the capability of reaching local public safety agencies, but does not include a line used by a carrier to provide interexchange services. Local exchange access line or local access line, as used in this chapter, means each line which is assessed a subscriber line charge ("SLC") or a universal access surcharge ("UAS"), and shall also include any wireline telephone company official line. However, local exchange access lines shall not include interoffice trunks, toll trunks or direct inward dialing trunks.
"Local exchange service" means the transmission of two-way interactive switched voice communications furnished by a local exchange telephone company within the NANA Region, including access to enhanced 911 systems.
"Local exchange telephone company" or "wireline telephone company" means any telephone utility certified to provide local exchange service or wireline telephone service in the NANA Region by the regulatory commission of Alaska.
"Public safety answering point" means a twenty-four hour local communications facility that receives 911 service calls and directly dispatches emergency response services or that relays calls to the appropriate public or private safety agency.
"Surcharge" means an enhanced 911 system surcharge imposed on wireline and wireless telephones for support of the enhanced 911 system.
"Wireless telephone" means any telephone that is not a wireline telephone that is capable of communication with another device by use of radio waves or satellite signal, which includes cellular, mobile, radio-based, and broadband telephones. Each wireless telephone number is considered a separate wireless telephone for purposes of the surcharge.
"Wireless telephone company" means any telephone company that provides wireless telephone service through cellular, satellite, broadband, radio-based telephone or data transport service, and bills or sells wireless telephone service to a customer with an address within the NANA Region.
"Wireline telephone" means any telephone that uses a local exchange access line.
(Ord. 06-6 § 2 (part), 2006).