Illinois Statutes Chapter 50. Local Government § 750/15.6c. Requirements for MLTS installed after February 16, 2020

(a) An entity engaged in the business of manufacturing, importing, selling, or leasing MLTS may not manufacture or import for use or sell or lease or offer to sell or lease an MLTS unless the system is pre-configured so that when it is properly installed, in accordance with subsections (b) and (c) and Section 15.8a, 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 the other calls.

(b) An entity engaged in the business of manufacturing, importing, selling, or leasing MLTS may not install, manage, or operate for use an MLTS unless the system is configured so 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) An entity engaged in the business of manufacturing, importing, selling, or leasing MLTS shall, in installing, managing, or operating an MLTS, configure the system to provide MLTS 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. MLTS notification must meet the following requirements: