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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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CHAPTER 67
(Senate Bill 542)
AN ACT concerning
911 Emergency Telephone Systems
FOR the purpose of providing for the payment of certain costs of
maintaining and operating 911 emergency telephone systems;
authorizing counties to impose certain charges in addition
to the 911 fee to be paid by telephone subscribers to
switched local exchange access service and deposited for the
account of the counties in the 911 Trust Fund to be held by
the State Comptroller; requiring the Public Service
Commission to direct telephone companies to collect the
additional charge as agents for the 911 Trust Fund and for
the benefit of the counties imposing the additional charge;
providing for the disbursement of moneys in the 911 Trust
Fund; authorizing the use of moneys in the 911 Trust Fund to
pay certain costs of maintaining and operating 911 emergency
telephone systems; fixing the 911 fee collected on a
statewide basis at a certain rate and eliminating a time
limitation on the imposition and collection of the 911 fee;
directing the fee to be applied to all current bills
rendered for switched local exchange access service;
establishing a credit in a certain amount against the
proceeds of the 911 fee to be remitted by telephone
companies to cover the expenses of billing, collecting and
remitting the 911 fee and any additional charges; providing
for the allocation of the fee and charges collected into
certain accounts and of the moneys in the 911 Trust Fund as
of a certain date; authorizing the Emergency Number Systems
Board to coordinate the installation and enhancement of 911
emergency telephone systems and to audit expenditures by the
counties for the operation and maintenance of 911 emergency
telephone systems; providing for the disposition of the
interest earned on the moneys in the 911 Trust Fund;
eliminating a provision for the termination of the Emergency
Number Systems Board; providing for terms of office of
members of the Emergency Number Systems Board; altering the
requirement that the Board hold meetings at stated
intervals; imposing certain restrictions on the expenditure
of trust funds for operation and maintenance, maintenance,
and personnel costs; eliminating certain limits on trust
funds available for the installation or reimbursement of the
costs of 911 emergency telephone systems; defining certain
terms and clarifying and eliminating certain obsolete
language pertaining to 911 emergency telephone systems; and
generally providing for the installation, enhancement,
operation, and maintenance of 911 emergency telephone
systems in this State.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
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