31-4804A. ESTABLISHMENT OF ENHANCED CONSOLIDATED EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS OR NEXT GENERATION CONSOLIDATED EMERGENCY SYSTEMS. (1) Any county or 911 service area that has established a basic consolidated emergency system may establish an enhanced consolidated emergency system or next generation consolidated emergency system by action of the governing board of the basic consolidated emergency system.
(2) The governing boards establishing enhanced consolidated emergency systems or next generation consolidated emergency systems shall request that wireless carriers serving such counties or 911 service areas collectively implement an enhanced consolidated emergency communications system within a reasonable time. When so requested, all wireless carriers serving such counties or 911 service areas shall implement enhanced consolidated emergency communications systems or next generation consolidated emergency systems within a reasonable time. The governing boards and wireless carriers shall enter into agreements that:
(a) Establish the scope and purpose of the proposed enhanced consolidated emergency communications systems and next generation consolidated emergency systems.
(b) Provide for an agreed-to level of reimbursement for telecommunications providers for the costs of wireless carriers resulting from their implementation and operation of enhanced emergency communications systems or next generation consolidated emergency systems that may include the acquisition, construction, financing, installation and operation of all equipment and facilities necessary to implement such systems.
(c) Provide that the agreed-to level of reimbursement for telecommunications providers for enhanced 911 service may include the costs and expenses incurred for designing, upgrading, purchasing, leasing, programming, installing, testing, or maintaining all necessary data, hardware and software required in order to provide such service as well as the recurring and nonrecurring costs of operating such service. All costs and expenses must be commercially reasonable.
(d) Provide that reimbursement to a telecommunications provider shall be nondiscriminatory and be made available to all other telecommunications providers.
Agreements shall provide for prompt reimbursement on invoices submitted by wireless carriers to the governing board.
History:
[31-4804A, added 2003, ch. 290, sec. 5, p. 789; am. 2016, ch. 127, sec. 4, p. 368.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW
Chapter 48 - EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS ACT
Section 31-4802 - DEFINITIONS.
Section 31-4804 - EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FEE.
Section 31-4807 - RIGHT TO FEE NOT AFFECTED BY NONSERVICE.
Section 31-4808 - TERMINATION.
Section 31-4809 - FUND AND APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 31-4810 - EXISTING JOINT COUNTY-WIDE EMERGENCY DISPATCH SYSTEMS NOT AFFECTED.
Section 31-4811 - PAY PHONES TO BE CONVERTED TO ALLOW EMERGENCY CALLS WITHOUT CHARGE.
Section 31-4813 - PREPAID WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FEE.
Section 31-4814 - CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY DATA.
Section 31-4815 - CREATION OF THE IDAHO PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION — TERMS.
Section 31-4816 - IDAHO PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION — RESPONSIBILITIES.
Section 31-4817 - IDAHO PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION — MEDIATION.
Section 31-4818 - IDAHO EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FUND — ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION.
Section 31-4819 - ENHANCED EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS GRANT FEE.