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47 U.S.C. § 623 — Configuration of multi-line telephone systems for direct dialing of 9–1–1.
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**(a) System manufacture, importation, sale, and lease** A person engaged in the business of manufacturing, importing, selling, or leasing multi-line telephone systems may not manufacture or import for use in the United States, or sell or lease or offer to sell or lease in the United States, a multi-line telephone system, unless such system is pre-configured such that, when properly installed in accordance with subsection (b), a user may directly initiate a call to 9–1–1 from any station equipped with dialing facilities, without dialing any additional digit, code, prefix, or post-fix, including any trunk-access code such as the digit “9”, regardless of whether the user is required to dial such a digit, code, prefix, or post-fix for other calls.
**(b) System installation, management, and operation** A person engaged in the business of installing, managing, or operating multi-line telephone systems may not install, manage, or operate for use in the United States such a system, unless such system is configured such that a user may directly initiate a call to 9–1–1 from any station equipped with dialing facilities, without dialing any additional digit, code, prefix, or post-fix, including any trunk-access code such as the digit “9”, regardless of whether the user is required to dial such a digit, code, prefix, or post-fix for other calls.
**(c) On-site notification** A person engaged in the business of installing, managing, or operating multi-line telephone systems shall, in installing, managing, or operating such a system for use in the United States, configure the system to provide a notification to a central location at the facility where the system is installed or to another person or organization regardless of location, if the system is able to be configured to provi
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**(a) System manufacture, importation, sale, and lease** A person engaged in the business of manufacturing, importing, selling, or leasing multi-line telephone systems may not manufacture or import for use in the United States, or sell or lease or offer to sell or lease in the United States, a multi-line telephone system, unless such system is pre-configured such that, when properly installed in accordance with subsection (b), a user may directly initiate a call to 9–1–1 from any station equipped with dialing facilities, without dialing any additional digit, code, prefix, or post-fix, including any trunk-access code such as the digit “9”, regardless of whether the user is required to dial such a digit, code, prefix, or post-fix for other calls.
**(b) System installation, management, and operation** A person engaged in the business of installing, managing, or operating multi-line telephone systems may not install, manage, or operate for use in the United States such a system, unless such system is configured such that a user may directly initiate a call to 9–1–1 from any station equipped with dialing facilities, without dialing any additional digit, code, prefix, or post-fix, including any trunk-access code such as the digit “9”, regardless of whether the user is required to dial such a digit, code, prefix, or post-fix for other calls.
**(c) On-site notification** A person engaged in the business of installing, managing, or operating multi-line telephone systems shall, in installing, managing, or operating such a system for use in the United States, configure the system to provide a notification to a central location at the facility where the system is installed or to another person or organization regardless of location, if the system is able to be configured to provide the notification without an improvement to the hardware or software of the system.
**(d) Effect on State law** Nothing in this section is intended to alter the authority of State commissions or other State or local agencies with jurisdiction over emergency communications, if the exercise of such authority is not inconsistent with this chapter.
**(e) Enforcement** This section shall be enforced under subchapter V, except that [section 501 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section501&num=0&edition=prelim) applies only to the extent that such section provides for the punishment of a fine.
**(f) Multi-line telephone system defined** In this section, the term “multi-line telephone system” has the meaning given such term in [section 1471 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section1471&num=0&edition=prelim).
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Any person who willfully and knowingly does or causes or suffers to be done any act, matter, or thing, in this chapter prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or who willfully and knowingly omits or fails to do any act, matter, or thing in this chapter required to be done, or willfully and knowingly causes or suffers such omission or failure, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished for such offense, for which no penalty (other than a forfeiture) is provided in this chapter, by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both; except that any person, having been once convicted of an offense punishable under this section, who is subsequently convicted of violating any provision of this chapter punishable under this section, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both.
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This chapter may be cited as the “Communications Act of 1934.”
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**(a) In general** Nothing in subparagraph (G) of [section 309(j)(8) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section309/j/8&num=0&edition=prelim) or in [section 1452 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section1452&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be construed to prevent the Commission from using relinquished or other spectrum to implement band plans with guard bands.
**(b) Size of guard bands** Such guard bands shall be no larger than is technically reasonable to prevent harmful interference between licensed services outside the guard bands.
**(c) Unlicensed use in guard bands** The Commission may permit the use of such guard bands for unlicensed use.
**(d) Database** Unlicensed use shall rely on a database or subsequent methodology as determined by the Commission.
**(e) Protections against harmful interference** The Commission may not permit any use of a guard band that the Commission determines would cause harmful interference to licensed services.
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TITLE 47—TELECOMMUNICATIONS
§ 622
gramming distributor that demonstrates that
obtaining the equipment to comply with the
regulation adopted pursuant to subsection (a)
would result in financial hardship, the Federal
Communications Commission may grant a
waiver of the effective date set forth in para-
graph (1) for 1 year and may renew such waiver
for 1 additional year.
(3) Waiver authority
Nothing in this section affects the Commis-
sion’s authority under section 1.3 of its rules
(47 C.F.R. 1.3) to waive any rule required by
this Act, or the application of any such rule,
for good cause shown to a television broadcast
station, cable operator, or other multichannel
video programming distributor, or to a class of
such stations, operators, or distributors.
(c) Compliance
Any broadcast television operator, cable oper-
ator, or other multichannel video programming
distributor that installs, utilizes, and maintains
in a commercially reasonable manner the equip-
ment and associated software in compliance
with the regulations issued by the Federal Com-
munications Commission in accordance with
subsection (a) shall be deemed to be in compli-
ance with such regulations.
(d) Definitions
For purposes of this section—
(1) the term ‘‘television broadcast station’’
has the meaning given such term in section 325
of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C.
325); and
(2) the terms ‘‘cable operator’’ and ‘‘multi-
channel video programming distributor’’ have
the meanings given such terms in section 602
of Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 522).
(Pub. L. 111–311, § 2, Dec. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 3294.)
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The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in sub-
sec. (a), is act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, which
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