Wicomico County, MD
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2023-07-06
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Division 3 The Code
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Part I, Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 15 Emergency Management
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Article IV 9-1-1 Telephone Systems
- Division 1 The County Charter
- Ch C County Charter
- Division 2 Municipal Charters
- Ch DC Delmar Charter
- Ch FC Fruitland Charter
- Ch HC Hebron Charter
- Ch MC Mardela Springs Charter
- Ch PC Pittsville Charter
- Ch SC Salisbury Charter
- Ch SHC Sharptown Charter
- Ch WC Willards Charter
- Division 3 The Code
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Aviation
- Ch 7 Board of Appeals
- Ch 9 Bridges
- Ch 13 County Internal Auditor
- Ch 14 (Reserved)
- Ch 15 Emergency Management
- Ch 15 Art IV 9-1-1 Telephone Systems
- § 15-13 Enforcement of state requirements.
- Ch 18 Compensation and Allowance Commission
- Ch 19 Contracts and Purchasing
- Ch 20 Correction, Department of
- Ch 22 County Property
- Ch 27 Deeds
- Ch 29 Finance
- Ch 30 Clean Energy Loan Program
- Ch 31 Election Districts
- Ch 33 Elections
- Ch 36 Environment, Commission on
- Ch 37 Ethics Law
- Ch 39 Fire and Ambulance Companies and Rescue Squads
- Ch 41 Fire Protection
- Ch 44 Housing Authority
- Ch 46 Law Enforcement Review Board
- Ch 47 Library System
- Ch 56 (Reserved)
- Ch 59 Personnel Rules
- Ch 62 Planning and Zoning Commission
- Ch 64 Planning Organization, Areawide
- Ch 66 (Reserved)
- Ch 68 Pocomoke River
- Ch 70 Recreation, Parks and Tourism
- Ch 72 Register of Wills
- Ch 74 (Reserved)
- Ch 77 Roads and Improvements
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 83 Seal
- Ch 86 Sheriff
- Ch 87 Special Benefit Districts
- Ch 88 Substance Abuse Policy
- Ch 90 Tax Exemptions
- Ch 94 (Reserved)
- Ch 97 Urban Service Districts
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 104 Agricultural Land Preservation
- Ch 105 Alarms
- Ch 106 (Reserved)
- Ch 110 Assemblies, Mass Public
- Ch 117 Building Construction
- Ch 119 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch 125 Critical Area Resource Protection
- Ch 126 Forest Conservation
- Ch 130 (Reserved)
- Ch 133 Animal Control
- Ch 135 Drugs and Tobacco Products
- Ch 138 Electrical Standards
- Ch 140 Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 141 Fees
- Ch 144 Fire Prevention
- Ch 146 Fires
- Ch 148 Flood Hazard Areas
- Ch 149 Floodplain Management
- Ch 151 Fortune-Telling
- Ch 153 Foxes
- Ch 156 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 158 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 160 Housing Standards
- Ch 169 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 170 Motels and Places of Amusements
- Ch 174 Nuisances
- Ch 179 Parks, Recreational Facilities and Areas
- Ch 180 Peddlers
- Ch 183 Plumbing
- Ch 186 Right to Farm
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 195 (Reserved)
- Ch 196 Stormwater Management
- Ch 197 Streets and Addressing System
- Ch 200 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 203 Taxation
- Ch 205 Taxicabs
- Ch 211 Trailer Camps
- Ch 213 Transient Merchants
- Ch 216 Trespass
- Ch 218 Vagrants
- Ch 221 Violations and Penalties
- Ch 225 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A228 Acts Appearing as Footnotes in 1965 Code
- Ch A229 Acts Not Elsewhere Referred to
- Ch A230 Comparative Table of Sections
- Ch A231 Derivation Table
- Ch A232 Disposition Lists
- Ch A233 Rules of Legislative Procedure
[Added 1-5-2021 by Bill No. 2020-15]
A.
Maryland
Public Safety Code § 1-314 currently provides, effective
October 1, 2020, that a county or municipality is responsible for
enforcing § 1-314(b), which provides:
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"(b)(1)
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Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a person
that installs or operates a multiple-line telephone system shall ensure
that the system is connected to the public switched telephone network
in such a way that when an individual using the system dials 9-1-1,
the call connects to the public safety answering point without requiring
the user to dial any other number or set of numbers.
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"(2)
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A unit of the Executive Branch of State government shall comply
with paragraph (1) of this subsection on the date that the multiple-line
telephone system of the unit is next upgraded."
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Section 1-314(a) defines a multiple-line telephone system as
follows:
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"(a)
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In this section, 'Multiple-line telephone system'
means a system that:
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"(1)
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consists of common control units, telephone sets, control hardware
and software, and adjunct systems, including network and premises-based
systems; and
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"(2)
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is designed to aggregate more than one incoming voice communication
channel for use by more than one telephone."
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B.
The Wicomico
County Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness Agency shall
be responsible for enforcing the above requirements. Officers authorized
by the Director of Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness
to enforce this section may issue citations for civil infractions
of this section.
