Section 34A.8. Local exchange service information — penalty.

  1.  A local exchange service provider shall furnish to the E911 service provider, designated by the joint E911 service board, all names, addresses, and telephone number information concerning its subscribers which will be served by the E911 system and shall periodically update the local exchange service information. The E911 service provider shall furnish the addresses and telephone number information received from the local exchange service provider to the director for use in the mass notification and emergency messaging system as defined in section 29C.2. The local exchange service provider shall receive as compensation for the provision of local exchange service information charges according to its tariffs on file with and approved by the Iowa utilities board. The tariff charges shall be the same whether or not the local exchange service provider is designated as the E911 service provider by the joint E911 service board.

  2.  a.  Subscriber information remains the property of the local exchange service provider.

  b.  The director, program manager, joint E911 service board, local emergency management commission established pursuant to section 29C.9, the designated E911 service provider, and the public safety answering point, their agents, employees, and assigns shall use local exchange service information provided by the local exchange service provider solely for the purposes of providing E911 emergency telephone service or providing related mass notification and emergency messaging services as described in section 29C.17A utilizing only the subscriber’s information, and it shall otherwise be kept confidential. A person who violates this section is guilty of a simple misdemeanor.

  c.  This chapter does not require a local exchange service provider to sell or provide its subscriber names, addresses, or telephone number information to any person other than the E911 service provider designated by the joint E911 service board.

88 Acts, ch 1177, §8

2004 Acts, ch 1175, §456

; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §201

; 2009 Acts, ch 32, §1

; 2015 Acts, ch 40, §1, 2

Subsection 1 amended

Subsection 2, paragraph b amended