Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 53 - 911 Emergency Communication Services
Section 5304.1 - Pennsylvania State Police


(a) Powers and duties.--The Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, or the designee of the commissioner, shall have the following powers and duties in relation to a Pennsylvania State Police telecommunications facility:
(1) To designate, with specificity, which Pennsylvania State Police facilities shall be considered Pennsylvania State Police telecommunications facilities under this chapter.
(2) To designate a commander of a Pennsylvania State Police telecommunications facility, who shall serve as the point of contact with the agency and the counties and shall oversee the implementation, operation and maintenance of a Pennsylvania State Police telecommunications facility. A Pennsylvania State Police facility shall, where technologically feasible, be adequate to provide service to the designated area of coverage.
(3) To request authority to access ANI/ALI database information relating to 911 calls for emergency services from the counties and PSAPs within the designated area of coverage of a Pennsylvania State Police telecommunications facility. No county or PSAP shall be required to comply with such a request unless it is made by the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police or the designee of the commissioner under section 5304(a)(8) (relating to counties).
(4) To provide training and certification for all call takers/dispatchers and call taker/dispatcher supervisors that meet or exceed the training and certification standards that are provided for in 4 Pa. Code Ch. 120c (relating to training and certification standards for 911 emergency communications personnel) or any successor standard.
(b) Ineligible reimbursement.--The Pennsylvania State Police is not eligible to receive reimbursement from the fund, nor may the Pennsylvania State Police impose a tax, fee or surcharge upon subscribers or customers of any provider.
(June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, eff. Aug. 1, 2015)

Cross References. Section 5304.1 is referred to in section 5304.

Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Title 35 - HEALTH AND SAFETY

Chapter 53 - 911 Emergency Communication Services

Extra - Chapter Notes

Section 5301 - Scope of chapter

Section 5302 - Definitions

Section 5303 - Telecommunications management

Section 5304 - Counties

Section 5304.1 - Pennsylvania State Police

Section 5305 - 911 system plan

Section 5306 - Special public meeting (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5306.1 - Fund

Section 5306.2 - Uniform 911 surcharge

Section 5307 - Payment, collection and remittance of surcharge by providers of 911 communications services

Section 5307.1 - Payment, collection and remittance of surcharge by sellers of prepaid wireless telecommunications service

Section 5308 - Expenditures for nonrecurring costs, training, mobile communications equipment, maintenance and operation of 911 systems (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5309 - Telephone records

Section 5310 - Penalty

Section 5311.1 - Immunity

Section 5311.2 - Powers and duties of agency (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.3 - Advisory committee (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.4 - Wireless E-911 Emergency Services Fund (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.5 - Disbursement of fund amounts by agency (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.6 - Reporting (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.7 - Prohibition against release of information

Section 5311.8 - Wireless provider and VoIP provider records (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.9 - Immunity (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.10 - Agency funding for wireless E-911 support (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.11 - Rate regulation

Section 5311.12 - Regulations (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.13 - Enforcement (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.14 - Collection and disbursement of VoIP 911 fee (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5311.15 - Shared residential MLTS service

Section 5311.16 - Business MLTS

Section 5311.17 - Shared communications services

Section 5311.18 - Temporary residence

Section 5311.19 - Local notification

Section 5311.20 - ALI database maintenance

Section 5311.21 - Industry standards

Section 5311.22 - Dialing instructions

Section 5311.23 - MLTS signaling

Section 5311.24 - MLTS operator education

Section 5311.25 - Limitation of liability

Section 5312.1 - Legislative study (Deleted by amendment)

Section 5313 - Legislative report

Section 5314 - Inventory

Section 5398 - Termination

Section 5399 - Prohibited release of information