(A) The board of county commissioners imposes a surcharge for the enhancement of the telephone system for reporting an emergency in Elko County on:
1. Each access line or trunk line of each customer to the local exchange of any telecommunications provider providing those lines are located within Elko County; and
2. The mobile telephone service provided to each customer of that service whose place of primary use is in Elko County as determined.
(B) The surcharge on access lines to the local exchange of a telecommunications provider will be determined by resolution of the County Commission. The surcharge shall not exceed the statutory amount set forth in N.R.S. 244A.7643(3)(a).
(C) The surcharge on trunk lines shall equal ten (10) times the amount of the surcharge imposed on each access line to the local exchange of a telecommunications provider.
(D) The surcharge for each telephone number assigned to a customer by a supplier of mobile telephone services will be equal to the surcharge on the access lines to the local exchange of a telecommunications provider.
(E) A telecommunications provider that provides access or trunk lines in Elko County and a supplier that provides mobile telephone service to customers in Elko County must collect the surcharge from its customers each month.
Except as otherwise provided in Nevada Revised Statutes 244A.7647, each telecommunications provider and supplier must remit the surcharge it collects to the treasurer of the county in which the surcharge is imposed no later than the fifteenth day of the month after the month it receives payment of the surcharge from its customer. In accordance with Nevada Revised Statutes 244A.7647, a telecommunications provider or supplier which collects the surcharge imposed pursuant to this section is entitled to retain an amount of the surcharge collected which is equal to the cost to collect the surcharge.
(F) Telecommunications providers and mobile telephone service suppliers affected by this chapter must begin imposing the surcharge described in this section within sixty (60) days after the board of county commissioners approves the five (5) year master plan for the enhancement or improvement of the telephone system for reporting emergencies in the county commencing with a full monthly billing cycle.
(G) The county manager may adopt procedures as necessary to effectuate the provisions of this section. (Ord. 2016-03, 9-7-2016, eff. 11-18-2016; amd. Ord. 04-2019, 7-17-2019)