(a) Access.--A telephone service supplier shall provide customer telephone numbers, names and service addresses to PSAPs when requested by them for use in responding to 911 calls and for the synchronization of required geographic information system (GIS) database layers for geospatial call routing with the master street address guide, the ALI data and site and structure locations and, when required, to providers of emergency notification services and emergency support services, solely for the purposes of delivering or assisting in the delivery of emergency notification services and emergency support services. A wireless provider shall provide the telephone number and geographical location of the wireless device, as required under the FCC E-911 Order, to PSAPs when requested by them for use in responding to 911 calls. Customer telephone numbers, names and service addresses, and telephone numbers and geographical locations of wireless devices, shall remain the property of the disclosing service supplier. The total cost of the 911 system shall include expenses to reimburse telephone service suppliers for providing and maintaining 911 information. A telephone service supplier shall not be reimbursed directly from the fund for providing and maintaining 911 information. This information shall be used only in providing emergency response services to a 911 call, synchronizing master street address guide, ALI and GIS data sets or for purposes of delivering or assisting in the delivery of emergency notification services or emergency support services. A person who uses or discloses ANI/ALI database information for purposes other than providing emergency response services to a 911 call, delivering or assisting in the delivery of emergency notification services commits a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(b) Privacy waived.--Private listing service customers in a 911 service district shall waive the privacy afforded by nonlisted and nonpublished numbers with respect to the delivery of emergency services.
(c) Immunity.--(Deleted by amendment).
(June 29, 2015, P.L.36, No.12, eff. Aug. 1, 2015; June 28, 2019, P.L.142, No.17, eff. imd.)
2019 Amendment. Act 17 amended subsec. (a).
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 53 - 911 Emergency Communication Services
Section 5301 - Scope of chapter
Section 5303 - Telecommunications management
Section 5304.1 - Pennsylvania State Police
Section 5305 - 911 system plan
Section 5306 - Special public meeting (Deleted by amendment)
Section 5306.2 - Uniform 911 surcharge
Section 5309 - Telephone records
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)