A. Purpose: Section 69-2-5 of the Utah Code Annotated provides for the establishment and funding of a 911 emergency services telephone system, including wireless and land based telephone services. Under the emergency telephone service law, the city may levy monthly an emergency services telephone charge on each local exchange service switched access line and each revenue producing radio communications access line with a billing address within the boundaries of the area served by the city. Notification of intent to levy the emergency services telephone charge must be given to the public service commission at least thirty (30) days prior to the effective date. The city provides 911 emergency services telephone service and wants to levy an emergency services telephone charge in the amount allowed by state law.
B. Levy: The city council levies an emergency services telephone charge in the amount shown on the Salt Lake City consolidated fee schedule, per month on each basic local exchange access line and each revenue producing radio communications access line with a billing address within the boundaries of the area served by the city.
Effective July 1, 2004, four cents ($0.04) of the amount of the charge levied under this section, less the collection costs of the city and tax commission permitted by Utah Code Annotated sections 69-2-5(3)(h) and 53-10-604(2)(b), shall be deposited monthly in the statewide unified E-911 emergency service fund created in Utah Code Annotated section 53-10-603, for the purposes outlined in that section.
C. Notify Public Service Commission: The chief of the Salt Lake City police department, or his/her designee, is directed to notify the Utah state public service commission of the entities upon which the city will levy the charge in accordance with applicable laws.
D. Special Emergency Telephone Service Fund: All monies received by the city from the 911 emergency services telephone charge shall be deposited in a special emergency telephone service fund. All monies in the emergency telephone service fund shall be expended by the city to pay the costs of establishing, installing, maintaining and operating a 911 emergency telephone system or integrating a 911 system into an established public safety dispatch center. Revenues derived for the funding of 911 emergency telephone service may only be used for that portion of the costs related to the operation of the 911 emergency telephone system. (Ord. 24-11, 2011)