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12-10-323. Authorized expenditures of revenues.
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12-10-323. Authorized expenditures of revenues.
(a)(1) Revenue generated under §§ 12-10-318 and 12-10-326 and transferred from the Arkansas Emergency Telephone Services Board or the Arkansas Public Safety Trust Fund to the Arkansas 911 Board shall be used only for reasonably necessary costs that enhance, operate, and maintain 911 service in the State of Arkansas under the direction of the Arkansas 911 Board.
(2) Reasonably necessary costs shall be determined by the Arkansas 911 Board and include the following:
(A) The engineering, installation, and recurring costs necessary to implement, operate, and maintain a 911 telephone system;
(B) The costs necessary for forwarding and transfer capabilities of calls from the public safety answering point to dispatch centers or to other public safety answering points;
(C) Engineering, construction, lease, or purchase costs to lease, purchase, build, remodel, or refurbish a public safety answering point and for necessary emergency and uninterruptable power supplies for the public safety answering point;
(D) Personnel costs, including salary and benefits, of each position charged with supervision and operation of the public safety answering point and system;
(E) Purchase, lease, operation, and maintenance of consoles, telephone and communications equipment owned or operated by the political subdivisions and physically located within and for the use of the public safety answering point, and radio or microwave towers and equipment with lines that terminate in the public safety answering point;
(F) Purchase, lease, operation, and maintenance of computers, data processing equipment, associated equipment, and leased audio or data lines assigned to and operated by the public safety answering point for the purposes of coord
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-10-323
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12-10-323. Authorized expenditures of revenues.
(a)(1) Revenue generated under §§ 12-10-318 and 12-10-326 and transferred from the Arkansas Emergency Telephone Services Board or the Arkansas Public Safety Trust Fund to the Arkansas 911 Board shall be used only for reasonably necessary costs that enhance, operate, and maintain 911 service in the State of Arkansas under the direction of the Arkansas 911 Board.
(2) Reasonably necessary costs shall be determined by the Arkansas 911 Board and include the following:
(A) The engineering, installation, and recurring costs necessary to implement, operate, and maintain a 911 telephone system;
(B) The costs necessary for forwarding and transfer capabilities of calls from the public safety answering point to dispatch centers or to other public safety answering points;
(C) Engineering, construction, lease, or purchase costs to lease, purchase, build, remodel, or refurbish a public safety answering point and for necessary emergency and uninterruptable power supplies for the public safety answering point;
(D) Personnel costs, including salary and benefits, of each position charged with supervision and operation of the public safety answering point and system;
(E) Purchase, lease, operation, and maintenance of consoles, telephone and communications equipment owned or operated by the political subdivisions and physically located within and for the use of the public safety answering point, and radio or microwave towers and equipment with lines that terminate in the public safety answering point;
(F) Purchase, lease, operation, and maintenance of computers, data processing equipment, associated equipment, and leased audio or data lines assigned to and operated by the public safety answering point for the purposes of coordinating or forwarding calls, dispatch, or recordkeeping of 911 calls;
(G) Supplies, equipment, public safety answering point personnel training, vehicles, and vehicle maintenance, if such items are solely and directly related to and incurred by the political subdivision in mapping, addressing, and readdressing for the operation of the public safety answering point; and
(H) Training costs and all costs related to training under this subchapter.
(3) This subsection does not authorize a political subdivision to purchase emergency response vehicles, law enforcement vehicles, or other political subdivision vehicles from such funds.
(b) Expenditure of revenue distributed by the Arkansas 911 Board for purposes not identified in this section is prohibited.
(c) Failure to comply with this section may result in the Arkansas 911 Board's withholding funds from the public safety answering point's quarterly funding distribution.
(d) Appropriations of funds from any source other than §§ 12-10-318, 12-10-321, and 12-10-326 may be expended for any purpose and may supplement the authorized expenditures of this section and may fund other activities of the public safety answering point not associated with the provision of emergency services.
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12-10-318. Emergency telephone service charges — Imposition — Liability — Public safety charge.
(a)(1)(A) When so authorized by a majority of the persons voting within the political subdivision in accordance with the law, the governing authority of each political subdivision may levy an emergency telephone service charge in the amount assessed by the political subdivision on a per-access-line basis as of January 1, 1997, or the amount up to five percent (5%) of the tariff rate, except that any political subdivision with a population of less than twenty-seven thousand five hundred (27,500) according to the 1990 Federal Decennial Census may, by a majority vote of the electors voting on the issue, levy an emergency telephone charge in an amount assessed by the political subdivision on a per-access-line basis as of January 1, 1997, or an amount up to twelve percent (12%) of the tariff rate.
(B) The governing authority of a political subdivision that has been authorized under subdivision (a)(1)(A) of this section to levy an emergency telephone service charge in an amount up to twelve percent (12%) of the tariff rate may decrease the percentage rate to not less than four percent (4%) of the tariff rate for those telephone service users that are served by a telephone company with fewer than two hundred (200) access lines in this state as of the date of the election conducted under subdivision (a)(1)(A) of this section.
(2) Upon its own initiative, the governing authority of the political subdivision may call such a special election to be held in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq.
(b)(1)(A) There is levied a commercial mobile radio service public safety charge in an amount of one dollar and thirty cents ($1.30) per month per commercial mobile radio service connection th
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-10-318
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 12-10-318. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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12-10-321. Public safety answering points — Bonds.
(a) The governing authority of the political subdivision shall have power to incur debt and issue bonds with approval from the Arkansas 911 Board for 911 systems and public safety answering point implementation and future major capital items.
(b) The bonds shall be negotiable instruments and shall be solely the obligations of each political subdivision and not of the State of Arkansas.
(c) The bonds and income thereof shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Arkansas.
(d) The bonds shall not be general obligations but shall be special obligations payable from all or a specified portion of the income revenues and receipts of the political subdivision and designated by the political subdivision to be dedicated for the local 911 system and public safety answering point.
(e)(1) The bonds shall be authorized and issued by ordinance of the governing authority of each political subdivision.
(2) The bonds shall:
(A) Be of such series as the ordinance provides;
(B) Mature on such date or dates not exceeding thirty (30) years from date of the bonds as the ordinance provides;
(C) Bear interest at such rate or rates as the ordinance provides;
(D) Be in such denominations as the ordinance provides;
(E) Be in such form either coupon or fully registered without coupon as the ordinance provides;
(F) Carry such registration and exchangeability privileges as the ordinance provides;
(G) Be payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places within or without the state as the ordinance provides;
(H) Be subject to such terms of redemption as the ordinance provides;
(I) Be sold at public or private sale as the ordinance provides; and
(J) Be entitled to such priorities on the income, revenues
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-10-321
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 12-10-321. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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12-10-326. Prepaid wireless public safety charge — Definitions.
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Consumer” means a person who purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a retail transaction;
(2) “Occurring in this state” means a retail transaction that is:
(A) Conducted in person by a consumer at a business location of a seller in this state;
(B) Treated as occurring in this state for purposes of the gross receipts tax provided under § 26-52-521(b); or
(C) Taxable under § 26-53-106;
(3) “Prepaid wireless public safety charge” means the charge for prepaid wireless telecommunications service that is required to be collected by a seller from a consumer under subsection (b) of this section;
(4)(A) “Prepaid wireless service” means any prepaid wireless service sold to consumers in the state.
(B) “Prepaid wireless service” includes without limitation:
(i) Prepaid wireless cards;
(ii) Telephones or other devices that are loaded with prepaid wireless minutes; and
(iii) Any transaction that reloads a prepaid wireless card or a telephone or other device with prepaid wireless minutes;
(5) “Provider” means a person that provides prepaid wireless telecommunications service under a license issued by the Federal Communications Commission;
(6)(A) “Retail transaction” means each purchase of prepaid wireless telecommunications service from a seller for any purpose other than resale.
(B)(i) “Retail transaction” includes a separate purchase of prepaid wireless telecommunications service that is paid contemporaneously with another purchase of prepaid wireless telecommunications service if separately stated on an invoice, receipt, or similar document provided by the seller to the consumer at the time of sale.
(ii) “Retail transaction” includes a
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-10-326
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 12-10-326. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.