34A.4  Required conversion of pay telephones to allow 911 calls without depositing coins or other charge.

1.  Conversion and notice required.  When an enhanced 911 service system becomes operational or as soon as feasible thereafter, each provider or other owner or lessee of a pay station telephone to be operated within the enhanced 911 service area shall do the following:

a.  Convert each telephone to permit a caller to dial 911 without first inserting a coin or paying any other charge.

b.  Prominently display on each pay telephone a notice advising callers to dial 911 in an emergency and that deposit of a coin is not required.

2.  Certain pay phones prohibited within service area.  After commencement of enhanced 911 service in an enhanced 911 service area, a person shall not install or offer for use within the 911 service area a pay station telephone unless the telephone is capable of accepting a 911 call without prior insertion of a coin or payment of any other charge, and unless the telephone displays notice of free 911 service.

Section History: Recent form

  88 Acts, ch 1177, §4

  C89, § 477B.4

  C93, § 34A.4


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