Enrolled HB 249: Relating to enhanced 911 systems and enhanced 911 surcharges imposed by a municipality, public municipal corporation, or village.
00Enrolled HB 249 01 Relating to enhanced 911 systems and enhanced 911 surcharges imposed by a municipality, 02 public municipal corporation, or village. 03 _______________ 04 * Section 1. AS 29.10.200(37) is amended to read: 05 (37) AS 29.35.131 - 29.35.137 [AS 29.35.131] (enhanced 911 system); 06 * Sec. 2. AS 29.35.131(a) is amended to read: 07 (a) A municipality may, by resolution or ordinance, elect to provide an 08 enhanced 911 system at public safety answering points and [,] may purchase or lease 09 the enhanced 911 equipment or service required to establish or maintain an enhanced 10 911 system at public safety answering points from a local exchange telephone 11 company or other qualified vendor. The municipality [, AND] may impose an 12 enhanced 911 surcharge [, IN AN AMOUNT TO BE DETERMINED BY THE 13 MUNICIPALITY, ON ALL LOCAL EXCHANGE ACCESS LINES THAT 14 PROVIDE TELEPHONE SERVICE TO WIRELINE TELEPHONES IN THE AREA
01 TO BE SERVED BY THE ENHANCED 911 SYSTEM. A MUNICIPALITY THAT 02 PROVIDES SERVICES UNDER AN ENHANCED 911 SYSTEM MAY ALSO BY 03 RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE IMPOSE AN ENHANCED 911 SURCHARGE 04 ON EACH WIRELESS TELEPHONE NUMBER THAT IS BILLED TO AN 05 ADDRESS] within the enhanced 911 service area. An [FOR A MUNICIPALITY 06 WITH A POPULATION OF 100,000 OR MORE, AN ENHANCED 911 07 SURCHARGE MAY NOT EXCEED 50 CENTS PER MONTH FOR EACH 08 WIRELESS TELEPHONE NUMBER OR 50 CENTS PER MONTH FOR EACH 09 LOCAL EXCHANGE ACCESS LINE FOR WIRELINE TELEPHONES. FOR A 10 MUNICIPALITY WITH FEWER THAN 100,000 PEOPLE, AN] enhanced 911 11 surcharge may not exceed $2 [75 CENTS] per month for each wireless telephone 12 number and $2 [OR 75 CENTS] per month for each local exchange access line for 13 wireline telephones. The maximum surcharge amount of $2 provided for in this 14 subsection may be increased above that level if the surcharge amount is approved 15 by the voters of the enhanced 911 service area. The amount of surcharge 16 imposed for each wireless telephone number must equal the amount imposed for 17 each local exchange access line for a wireline telephone. An enhanced 911 service 18 area may be all of a city, all of a unified municipality, or all or part of the area within a 19 borough and may include the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality in 20 accordance with AS 29.35.020. The governing body of a municipality shall review an 21 enhanced 911 surcharge annually to determine whether the current level of the 22 surcharge is adequate, excessive, or insufficient to meet anticipated enhanced 911 23 system needs. When a municipality imposes an enhanced 911 surcharge or the 24 amount of the surcharge is changed, the municipality shall notify in writing the 25 telephone customers subject to the surcharge and provide an explanation of what 26 the surcharge will be used for [THE MUNICIPALITY MAY ONLY USE THE 27 ENHANCED 911 SURCHARGE FOR THE ENHANCED 911 SYSTEM]. 28 * Sec. 3. AS 29.35.131 is amended by adding new subsections to read: 29 (i) A municipality may only use the enhanced 911 surcharge revenue for those 30 costs of the enhanced 911 system that are authorized in this subsection. The surcharge 31 revenue may not be used for any capital or operational costs for emergency responses
01 that occur after the call is dispatched to the emergency responder. The surcharge 02 revenue may not be used for constructing buildings, leasing buildings, maintaining 03 buildings, or renovating buildings, except for the modification of an existing building 04 to the extent that is necessary to maintain the security and environmental integrity of 05 the public safety answering point and equipment rooms. The surcharge revenue may 06 be used for the following costs to the extent the costs are directly attributable to the 07 establishment, maintenance, and operation of an enhanced 911 system: 08 (1) the acquisition, implementation, and maintenance of public safety 09 answering point equipment and 911 service features; 10 (2) the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of other equipment, 11 including call answering equipment, call transfer equipment, automatic number 12 identification controllers and displays, automatic location identification controllers and 13 displays, station instruments, 911 telecommunications systems, teleprinters, logging 14 recorders, instant playback recorders, telephone devices for the deaf, public safety 15 answering point backup power systems, consoles, automatic call distributors, and 16 hardware and software interfaces for computer-aided dispatch systems; 17 (3) the salaries and associated expenses for 911 call takers for that 18 portion of time spent taking and transferring 911 calls; 19 (4) training costs for public safety answering point call takers in the 20 proper methods and techniques used in taking and transferring 911 calls; 21 (5) expenses required to develop and maintain all information 22 necessary to properly inform call takers as to location address, type of emergency, and 23 other information directly relevant to the 911 call-taking and transferring function, 24 including automatic location identification and automatic number identification 25 databases. 26 (j) If a city in an enhanced 911 service area established by a borough incurs 27 costs described under (i) of this section for the enhanced 911 system, before the 28 borough may use revenue from an enhanced 911 surcharge, the borough and city must 29 execute an agreement addressing the duties and responsibilities of each for the 30 enhanced 911 system and establishing priorities for the use of the surcharge revenue. 31 If the Department of Public Safety also provides services as part of the enhanced 911
01 system or uses the enhanced 911 system in that enhanced 911 service area, the 02 department must be a party to the agreement. 03 (k) For purposes of (i) of this section, "call taker" means a person employed in 04 a primary or secondary answering point whose duties include the initial answering of 05 911 or enhanced 911 calls and routing the calls to the agency or dispatch center 06 responsible for dispatching appropriate emergency services and a person in a primary 07 or secondary answering point whose duties include receiving a 911 or enhanced 911 08 call either directly or routed from another answering point and dispatching appropriate 09 emergency services in response to the call; the term "call taker" is synonymous with 10 the term "dispatcher" in that it is inclusive of the functions of both answering the 911 11 or enhanced 911 calls and dispatching emergency services in response to the calls. 12 * Sec. 4. AS 29.35 is amended by adding a new section to read: 13 Sec. 29.35.134. Multi-line telephone systems. A municipality may by 14 ordinance elect to require an enhanced 911 system from a multi-line telephone system. 15 A multi-line telephone system operator must arrange to update the automatic location 16 identification database with an appropriate master street address guide, valid address, 17 and callback number for each multi-line telephone system telephone, so that the 18 location information specifies the emergency response location of the caller. A multi- 19 line telephone system operator is considered to be in compliance with this section 20 when the multi-line telephone system complies with enhanced 911 generally accepted 21 industry standards as defined by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. For purposes 22 of this section, 23 (1) "callback number" means a number used by the public safety 24 answering point to re-contact the location from which a 911 call is placed; the number 25 may or may not be the number of the station used to originate the 911 call; 26 (2) "emergency response location" means the location to which a 911 27 emergency response team may be dispatched that is specific enough to provide a 28 reasonable opportunity for the emergency response team to quickly locate a caller 29 anywhere within it; 30 (3) "master street address guide" means a database of formatted street 31 names, numerical addresses or address ranges, and other parameters defining valid
01 locations and emergency services zones, and their associated emergency services 02 numbers, that enables the proper routing and response to 911 calls; 03 (4) "multi-line telephone system" means a system made up of common 04 control units, telephone sets, and control hardware and software, including network 05 and premises based systems such as Centrex and PBX, Hybrid, and Key Telephone 06 Systems, as classified by the Federal Communications Commission under Part 68 07 Requirements, and including systems owned or leased by governmental agencies or 08 nonprofit entities, as well as for profit entities; 09 (5) "multi-line telephone system operator" means an entity that owns, 10 leases, or rents from a third party, and operates a multi-line telephone system through 11 which a caller may place a 911 call through a public switched network. 12 * Sec. 5. AS 29.35 is amended by adding a new section to read: 13 Sec. 29.35.138. Application. AS 29.35.131 - 29.35.137 apply to home rule 14 and general law municipalities. 15 * Sec. 6. AS 29.35.131(h) is repealed.