ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor

S.B. 549

(2) The amount of the additional charges may not exceed a level
necessary to cover the total eligible maintenance and operation costs of the county.

(c)      The additional charge continues in effect until repealed or modified by a
subsequent county ordinance or resolution.

(d)     After imposing, repealing, or modifying an additional charge, the county
shall certify the amount of the additional charge to the Public Service Commission.

(e)     The Public Service Commission shall direct each telephone company that
provides service in a county that imposed an additional charge to add, within 60 days,
the full amount of the additional charge to all current bills rendered for switched local
exchange access service in the county.

(f)      Within 60 days after a county enacts or adopts an ordinance or resolution
that imposes, repeals, or modifies an additional charge, each 9-1-1 service carrier
that provides service in the county shall add the full amount of the additional charge
to all current bills rendered for wireless telephone service or other 9-1-1 accessible
service CMRS OR OTHER 9-1-1 ACCESSIBLE SERVICE in the county.

(g)     (1) Each telephone company and each 9-1-1 service carrier shall:

(i) act as a collection agent for the 9-1-1 Trust Fund with respect
to the additional charge imposed by each county;

(ii) collect the money from the additional charge on a county basis;
and

(iii) remit all money collected to the Comptroller on a monthly basis.

(2) The Comptroller shall deposit the money remitted in the 9-1-1 Trust
Fund account maintained for the county that imposed the additional charge.

1-312.

(a)     During each county's fiscal year, the county may spend the amounts
distributed to it from 9-1-1 fee collections for the installation, enhancement,
maintenance, and operation of a county or multicounty 9-1-1 system.

(b)     Maintenance SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (C) OF THIS
SECTION, MAINTENANCE and operation costs may include telephone company
charges, equipment costs, equipment lease charges, repairs, utilities, personnel costs,
and appropriate carryover costs from previous years.

(c)     A DURING A YEAR IN WHICH A COUNTY RAISES ITS LOCAL ADDITIONAL
CHARGE UNDER § 1-311 OF THIS SUBTITLE, THE COUNTY:

(1) MAY USE 9-1-1 TRUST FUNDS ONLY TO SUPPLEMENT LEVELS OF
SPENDING BY THE COUNTY FOR 9-1-1 MAINTENANCE OR OPERATIONS; AND

(2) MAY NOT USE 9-1-1 TRUST FUNDS TO SUPPLANT SPENDING BY THE
COUNTY FOR 9-1-1 MAINTENANCE OR OPERATIONS.

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