ORD-2012-042 Refund of Funds to the County's Emergency Telephone Fund (911)

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11 applied. first to the amount the subscriber owes the provider for the voice communications service. b Prepaid Wireless A voice communications service provider of prepaid wireless telephone service must collect and remit to the 911 Board the_manthly service ch Ye im osed u on re aid wireless telephone subscribers in the State under,one of the following me ods: M Collecting the service charge from each active prepaid wireless telephone service subscriber whose account balance is equal to or Greater than the amount of the service charge. Dividing the provider's total earned prepaid wireless telephone service revenue received for the month from each active prepaid wireless telephone service subscriber by tiny dollars ($50.00) and multiplying the quotient by the amount of the service charge. O Remittance to 911 Board — A voice communications service provider must remit the service char es collected b it under this section to the 911 Board The rovider must remit the collected service char es b the end of the calendar month following the month the provider received the charges from its subscribers. A provider ma deduct and retain from the service char es it receives from its subscribers and remits to the 911 Board an administrative allowance equal to the greater of one percent (1%) of the amount of service charges remitted or fifty dollars ($50.00) a month —Od Adiustment of Charie The 911 Board must monitor the revenues generated b the service char e. If the 911 Board determines that the rate roduces revenue in excess of the amount needed the 911 Board must reduce the rate. The reduced rate must ensure full cast recove for voice communications service providers and for rim PSAPs over a reasona ee eriod of time. A than e in the amount o£the rate becomes effective only on July 1 of an even numbered year. The 911 Board must riots of a Chan e in the rate at least 90 da s before the chars e becomes effective Lej Collection. — A voice communications service provider has no obligation to take any le ai action to enforce the collection of the service char e billed to a subscriber. The 911 Board ma initiate a collection action and reasonable costs and attome s' fees associated with that collection action in be assessed a ainst the subscriber. At the request of the 911 Board but no more than annually, a voice communications service rovider must re ort to the 911 Board the amount of the rovider's uncollected service char es. The 911 Board may request, to the extent eemitted b federal rivac laws the name address and tele hone number of a subscriber who refuses to n the 911 service charge. �f Restriction. —.A local overnment ma not 1111 ase a service char e or other fee on a subscriber to support the 911 system. "§ 67 A-44. 911 Fund. � Fund. — The 911 Fund is created as an interest-bearin s ecial revenue fund within the State treasury. The 911 Board administers the Fund. T e 911 Board must credit to the 911 Fund all revenues remitted to it from the service charge imposed by G.S. 62A-43 on voice communications service connections m the State Revenue m the Fund may only be used as provided in this Article. Allocation of Revenues. — The 911 Board May deduct and retain for its 11 administrative ex 11:31 u to one ercent 1% of the total service char es remitted to it under G.S. 62A-43 far de osit in the 911 Fund. The re mainin revenues remitted to the 911 Board for de osit in the 911 Fund are allocated as follows: Fig three percent (53%) of the funds remitted by CMRS providers to the 911 Fund are allocated for reimbursements to CM RS providers ursuant to G.S. 62A-45. o -seven ercent 47°lo of the funds remitted b CMRS providers and all funds remitted b a1I other voice communications service providers are allocated for monthly distributions to primary PSAPs SL2007-0383 Session Law 2007-383 page 5