Chapter 3.28 - EMERGENCY TELEPHONE SERVICE

Sections:

3.28.010 - Purpose.#

By interlocal agreement, the city is a member of the Salt Lake Valley Emergency Communications Center (VECC) through which the city provides emergency telephone services within its corporate limits. Pursuant to Utah Code Ann. § 69-2-5, the city is authorized to levy a monthly emergency telephone services charge in the amount of up to sixty-five cents ($0.65) per month upon each local exchange service switched access line within the boundaries of the city and upon each revenue producing radio communications access line with a billing address within the boundaries of the city. The intent of the charge is to defray the city's portion of providing emergency telephone services through VECC.

(Ord. 2004-13 (part))

3.28.020 - Levy.#

An emergency telephone services charge of sixty-five cents ($0.65) per month is hereby levied upon each local exchange service switched access line within the boundaries of the city and upon each revenue producing radio communications access line with a billing address within the boundaries of the city.

(Ord. 2004-13 (part))

3.28.030 - Disposition of funds.#

The charge levied shall be collected by the Utah State Tax Commission. Four cents of charge levied, less the permitted collection costs of the Utah State Tax Commission and provider, shall be deposited in a statewide unified E-911 Emergency Services Fund. The balance of the charge levied shall be deposited by the Utah State Tax Commission directly to the VECC emergency telephone service fund that has been established to pay the costs of establishing, installing, maintaining and operating a 911 emergency telephone service system and integrating the 911 system into an established public safety dispatch center and such other purposes as permitted by law.

(Ord. 2004-13 (part))