(1) "Consumer" means a person who purchases a prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a retail transaction;

(2) "Emergency services communication system" means a multicounty or county-wide communications network, including an enhanced 911 emergency communications system, which provides rapid public access for coordinated dispatching of services, personnel, equipment, and facilities for police, fire, medical, or other emergency services;

(3) "Enhanced 911 emergency communications system" means a public communications system consisting of a network, database, and on-premises equipment that is accessed by dialing or accessing 911 and that enables reporting police, fire, medical, or other emergency situations to a public safety answering point. The system includes the capability to selectively route incoming 911 voice or data to the appropriate public safety answering point that operates in a defined 911 service area and the capability to automatically display the name, address, and telephone number of incoming 911 voice or data at the appropriate public safety answering point. "Enhanced 911 emergency communications system" includes the modernization to next generation 911 systems;

(4) "Interconnected voice over internet protocol service" has the meaning ascribed to it in RCW 82.14B.020(4);

(5) "Interconnected voice over internet protocol service line" means an interconnected voice over internet protocol service that offers an active telephone number or successor dialing protocol assigned by a voice over internet protocol provider to a voice over internet protocol service customer that has inbound and outbound calling capability, which can directly access a public safety answering point when such a voice over internet protocol service customer has a place of primary use in the state;

(6) "Local exchange company" has the meaning ascribed to it in RCW 80.04.010;

(7) "Place of primary use" means the street address representative of where the subscriber’s use of the radio access line or interconnected voice over internet protocol service line occurs, which must be:

(8) "Prepaid wireless telecommunications service" means a telecommunications service that provides the right to use mobile wireless service as well as other nontelecommunications services including the download of digital products delivered electronically, content, and ancillary services, which must be paid for in full in advance and sold in predetermined units or dollars of which the number declines with use in a known amount;

(9) "Private telecommunications system" has the meaning ascribed to it in RCW 80.04.010;

(10) "Radio access line" means the telephone number assigned to or used by a subscriber for two-way local wireless voice service available to the public for hire from a radio communications service company. Radio access lines include, but are not limited to, radio-telephone communications lines used in cellular telephone service, personal communications services, and network radio access lines, or their functional and competitive equivalent. Radio access lines do not include lines that provide access to one-way signaling service, such as paging service, or to communications channels suitable only for data transmission, or to nonlocal radio access line service, such as wireless roaming service, or to a private telecommunications system;

(11) "Radio communications service company" has the meaning ascribed to it in RCW 80.04.010, except that it does not include radio paging providers. It does include those persons or entities that provide commercial mobile radio services, as defined by 47 U.S.C. § 332(d)(1), and both facilities-based and nonfacilities-based resellers;

(12) "Retail transaction" means the purchase of prepaid wireless telecommunications service from a seller for any purpose other than resale;

(13) "Seller" means a person who sells prepaid wireless telecommunications service to another person;

(14) "Subscriber" means the retail purchaser of telecommunications service, a competitive telephone service, or interconnected voice over internet protocol service. "Subscriber" does not include a consumer, as defined in this section;

(15) "Switched access line" means the telephone service line which connects a subscriber’s main telephone(s) or equivalent main telephone(s) to the local exchange company’s switching office. (Added by Ord. 95-009 § 2, Mar. 29, 1995, Eff date Apr. 13, 1995; Amended by Ord. 99-053 § 1, June 23, 1999, Eff date July 5, 1999; Amended by Ord. 02-036, Sept. 4, 2002, Eff date Jan. 1, 2003; Amended by Ord. 10-084, Sept. 22, 2010, Eff date Jan. 1, 2011; Amended by Ord. 13-091, Nov. 13, 2013, Eff date Jan. 1, 2014).