Georgia Code
Part 4 - Emergency Telephone Number 9-1-1 System
§ 46-5-133. Authority of Local Government to Adopt Resolution to Impose Monthly 9-1-1 Charge

(a.1) Any 9-1-1 charges shall be imposed only on the telephone subscriber of the entity that provides telephone service directly to the telephone subscriber. If a service supplier obtains its connectivity to the public switched telephone network or the public safety answering point through another service supplier, that other service supplier shall not be subject to any 9-1-1 charges with respect to the affected services.
History. Code 1981, § 46-5-133 , enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1984, § 2; Ga. L. 1990, p. 179, § 3; Ga. L. 1998, p. 540, § 3; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1017, § 10; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 46; Ga. L. 1999, p. 873, § 4; Ga. L. 2005, p. 660, § 9/HB 470; Ga. L. 2007, p. 318, § 2/HB 394; Ga. L. 2018, p. 689, § 2-11/HB 751; Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 46/SB 52.
The 2005 amendment, effective July 1, 2005, substituted “9-1-1” for “ ‘911’ ” throughout this Code section and substituted “place of primary use” for “billing address” in the second sentence in subsection (a).
The 2007 amendment, effective July 1, 2007, in subsection (a), substituted “telephone service” for “exchange access facility” in the first and fourth sentences and inserted “, other than a connection for prepaid wireless service,” in the second sentence; added subsection (a.1); deleted “local exchange” preceding “telephone” twice in paragraph (b)(2); and, near the middle of subsection (c), substituted “shall” for “may” and substituted “public safety answering point” for “dispatch center”.
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, added subsection (d). See Editor’s notes for applicability.
The 2019 amendment, effective May 12, 2019, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “shall be applied county wide” for “shall be applied county-wide” in the first sentence of subsection (d).
Code Commission notes.
Two 1988 Acts added a § 46-5-132 . Pursuant to Code section 28-9-5 , the Code section added by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1984, was redesignated as § 46-5-133 .
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2018, p. 689, § 4-1/HB 751, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “(a) This Act shall become effective July 1, 2018, for the purposes of creating the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority and appointing the members thereof and the enactment of Section 2-11 and the provisions regarding billing practices contained in subsection (d) of Code Section 38-3-189. For all other purposes, this Act shall become effective on January 1, 2019.
“(b) The provisions of this Act shall not in any manner diminish, extinguish, reduce, or affect any cause of action for audits, services, or the recovery of funds from service providers which may have existed prior to January 1, 2019. Any such cause of action is expressly preserved.

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