(A) The telephone line user fee shall be a uniform amount not to exceed $1 per month per exchange access line, trunk line, network access register, or equivalent, and such fee shall be used exclusively to finance the initiation, maintain, or enhance the consolidated emergency communication system within the county. The fee for collection of the monthly telephone line user fee shall be collected from customers on a monthly basis by all telecommunication entities which provide local telephone line service within the county, and may be listed as a separate item on customers’ monthly billings.
(B) (1) All such telephone companies shall remit such fee to the County Treasurer’s office or to the Administrator, as designated by the governing board. From every remittance to the governing board made on or before the date when the same becomes due, the telephone company required to remit the same becomes due; the telephone company required to remit the same shall be entitled to deduct and retain three-fourths of 1% (0.75%) of the collected amount as the cost of administration for collecting the charge.
(2) Local exchange companies will be allowed to list the surcharge on a separate item in the telephone subscriber’s bill, and shall not be obligated to take any legal action to enforce the collection of any charge, nor be held liable for such uncollected amounts.
(Ord. 37, passed 6-22-1998)