CHAPTER 553

S.P. 667 - L.D. 1819

An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Study Group

To Examine an Emergency Alert Notification System for

Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Individuals

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

PART A

Sec. A-1. 26 MRSA §1419, sub-§1, ¶B-2, as amended by PL 2001, c. 377, §1, is further amended to read:

B-2. "Specialized customer telecommunications communications equipment" means telecommunications communications equipment used by persons with disabilities to conduct telephone communications or equipment that provides or assists in providing emergency alert notification to deaf persons or hard-of-hearing persons. "Specialized customer telecommunications communications equipment" includes but is not limited to teletypewriters, artificial larynges, signaling devices, amplified handsets, large number dial overlays, direct telephone dialing, fax machines, equipment necessary to use short message services or text message services or and other equipment used by persons with disabilities to provide access to telephone networks and equipment that provides or facilitates emergency alert notification to deaf persons or hard-of- hearing persons.

Sec. A-2. 26 MRSA §1419, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1997, c. 751, Pt. A, §3, is further amended to read: