1. (a) “Community isolation outage” means an outage that meets any of the reporting threshold criteria set forth in this chapter.
2. (b) “Office” means the Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
3. (c) “Outage” means a significant degradation in the ability of an end user to establish and maintain a channel of communications to make 911 calls or receive emergency notifications as a result of failure or degradation in the performance of a communications provider's network.
4. (d) “Telecommunications service” has the same meaning as defined in Government Code section 53122.
5. (e) “ZIP Code” means a five digit postal code established by the United States Postal Service. For purposes of these regulations, a ZIP Code associated only with (1) a Post Office Box, or (2) a single physical address, shall be deemed part of the nearest ZIP Code not meeting the descriptions of subparts (1) or (2) of this subdivision for determining thresholds and reporting purposes.

The following definitions apply to this chapter:

Note: Authority cited: Sections 8585 and 53122, Government Code. Reference: Section 53122, Government Code.

History

1. New chapter 1.5 (sections 2480.1-2480.3) and section filed 6-25-2020 as an emergency; operative 6-25-2020 (Register 2020, No. 26). Expiration date of emergency extended 60 days (Executive Order N-40-20) plus an additional 60 days (Executive Order N-66-20). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 4-12-2021 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.

2. New chapter 1.5 (sections 2480.1-2480.3) and section refiled 4-1-2021 as an emergency; operative 4-1-2021. Emergency expiration extended 60 days (Executive Order N-40-20) plus an additional 60 days (Executive Order N-71-20) (Register 2021, No. 14). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-29-2021 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.

3. Certificate of Compliance as to 4-1-2021 order transmitted to OAL 5-28-2021 and filed 7-13-2021 (Register 2021, No. 29).