Under the authority of and subject to I.C. 36-8-16.7-32, an emergency telephone system fee is established to provide for the funding of an enhanced emergency telephone system to serve the county. This fee shall be collected from the telephone service users of the county and administered in accordance with the following terms.
(A) A monthly fee of $1.97 per telephone access line or other exchange access facility will be collected by the service supplier to pay the lease, purchase or maintenance of enhanced emergency telephone equipment, including necessary computer hardware, software, data base provisioning other costs; and the rates associated with the service suppliers’ enhanced emergency telephone system network services.
(B) The service suppliers shall be entitled to retain an administrative fee of 3% of the monthly fees collected as compensation for collecting the fees.
(C) All monthly fees collected except for the 3% administration fee shall be remitted to the Treasurer within ten days after the last day of the calendar year quarter. With the fee remittal, the service supplier shall provide a fee collection report on a form provided by the Treasurer.
(D) The Treasurer shall deposit the remitted fees in a separate Fund named the “Ohio County Emergency Telephone System Fund ”. The Treasurer may invest monies in the Fund in the same manner that other monies of the county are invested with the interest earned from such investment to be deposited in that Fund.
(E) During January of each year, each service supplier that collects the enhanced emergency telephone system fee for the county shall provide a delinquent fee report to the Treasurer. The report shall list the name, address and amount due for each service user who is two or more months delinquent in paying the fee.
(F) Each service supplier shall commence collecting the enhanced emergency telephone system fee from its service users as part of its first billing immediately following March 22, 1999.
(Council Ord. 91-8-1, passed 8-12-1991; Council Ord. 1999-03-29, passed 3-29-1999)