(A) (1) A monthly fee of $2.75 per telephone access line will be collected by the telephone service supplier to pay to the county for the lease, purchase or maintenance of enhanced emergency telephone equipment (E911), including necessary computer hardware, software and date base provisioning; and the rates charged by the service suppliers’ enhanced emergency telephone system network services.
(2) However, the monthly fee shall not be assessed against and the enhanced emergency telephone service shall not hereby be provided to those county residents on the following exchanges:
(a) Eminence; and
(b) Jamestown.
(B) In no event shall the charge provided for herein exceed 10% of the average monthly telephone access line charge in the county. In the event the charge provided for hereunder would exceed 10% of the average monthly telephone access line charge, then it shall be reduced accordingly to an amount that does not exceed said 10%.
(C) The Treasurer of the county shall deposit the remitted fees into a separate fund known as the Putnam County Emergency Telephone System Fund. The Treasurer may invest money in the Fund in the same manner that other monies are invested, with the interest earned from such investment to be deposited in that Fund. Funds from the Putnam County Emergency Telephone System Fund may only be spent with the approval and upon the appropriation of the County Council.
(Ord. 082890, passed 8-28-1990; Ord. passed 12-15-2009)