<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 26-26. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
               
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               <span class="ital">Exchange access facility</span> means the access from a particular telephone subscriber's premises to the telephone
               system of a service supplier. Exchange access facilities include service supplier
               provided access lines, PBX trunks and centrex network access registers, all as defined
               by tariffs of the telephone company as approved by the state utilities commission.
               Exchange access facilities do not include service supplier owned and operated telephone
               pay station lines, or wide area telecommunication service (WATS), foreign exchange
               (FX), or incoming only lines.
               
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               <span class="ital">911 charge</span> means a contribution to the county for the 911 service start-up equipment costs,
               subscriber notification costs, addressing costs, billing costs, and nonrecurring and
               recurring installation, maintenance, service, and network charges of a service supplier
               providing 911 service.
               
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               <span class="ital">911 system</span> or <span class="ital">911 service</span> means an emergency telephone system that provides the user of the public telephone
               system with the ability to reach a public safety answering point by dialing the digits
               911. The term "911 system" or "911 service" also includes "enhanced 911 service,"
               which means an emergency telephone system that provides the user of the public telephone
               system with 911 service and, in addition, directs 911 calls to appropriate public
               safety answering points by selective routing based on the geographical location from
               which the call originated and provides the capability for automatic number identification
               and automatic location identification features.
               
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               <span class="ital">Public Safety Telephone Act</span> means G.S. 62A-1 et seq.
               
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               <span class="ital">Service supplier</span> means a person or entity who provides exchange telephone service to a telephone subscriber.
               
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               <span class="ital">Telephone subscriber</span> or <span class="ital">subscriber</span> means a person or entity to whom exchange telephone service, either residential or
               commercial, is provided and in return for which the person or entity is billed on
               a monthly basis. When the same person, business, or organization has several telephone
               access lines, each exchange access facility shall constitute a separate subscription.
               
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               (Ord. of 2-18-91(1), Â§ I)
               
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions generally,<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2RUCODE" class="section-link" data-product-id="12658"> Â§ 1-2</a>.
               
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