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19-5-1152. Arkansas Public Safety Trust Fund.
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19-5-1152. Arkansas Public Safety Trust Fund.
(a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a trust fund to be known as the “Arkansas Public Safety Trust Fund”.
(b)(1) The fund shall be an interest-bearing account and may be invested in the manner permitted by law, with the interest income a proper credit to the fund and which shall not revert to general revenue.
(2) The fund shall be overseen by the Division of Emergency Management and shall be used to pay all authorized expenditures and proper costs as described in subsections (d) and (e) of this section.
(c) The fund shall consist of:
(1) Public safety charges assessed and collected under § 12-10-318(b) and § 12-10-326; and
(2) Any other moneys as authorized by law.
(d) On or before the fifteenth business day of December 2019 and on the fifteenth business day of each month thereafter, up to fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000) of the moneys in the fund shall be distributed to the division to provide administrative support for the fund.
(e) On or before the fifteenth business day of July 2020 and on the fifteenth business day of each fiscal quarter thereafter, moneys in the fund shall be distributed as follows:
(1) Up to sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($62,500) to the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training; and
(2) Up to two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the division to support upgrades and maintenance for the Arkansas Wireless Information Network.
(f) Between December 2019 and June 2020, the fund shall withhold moneys necessary to make the distributions under subsections (d) and (e) of this section.
(g) Each month after the distributions under subsections (d)-(f) of this section are
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 19-5-1152
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19-5-1152. Arkansas Public Safety Trust Fund.
(a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a trust fund to be known as the “Arkansas Public Safety Trust Fund”.
(b)(1) The fund shall be an interest-bearing account and may be invested in the manner permitted by law, with the interest income a proper credit to the fund and which shall not revert to general revenue.
(2) The fund shall be overseen by the Division of Emergency Management and shall be used to pay all authorized expenditures and proper costs as described in subsections (d) and (e) of this section.
(c) The fund shall consist of:
(1) Public safety charges assessed and collected under § 12-10-318(b) and § 12-10-326; and
(2) Any other moneys as authorized by law.
(d) On or before the fifteenth business day of December 2019 and on the fifteenth business day of each month thereafter, up to fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000) of the moneys in the fund shall be distributed to the division to provide administrative support for the fund.
(e) On or before the fifteenth business day of July 2020 and on the fifteenth business day of each fiscal quarter thereafter, moneys in the fund shall be distributed as follows:
(1) Up to sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($62,500) to the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training; and
(2) Up to two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the division to support upgrades and maintenance for the Arkansas Wireless Information Network.
(f) Between December 2019 and June 2020, the fund shall withhold moneys necessary to make the distributions under subsections (d) and (e) of this section.
(g) Each month after the distributions under subsections (d)-(f) of this section are satisfied, all remaining funds in the fund shall be transferred to the Arkansas 911 Board.
(h) Subsections (d)-(g) of this section shall be applied for fiscal year 2021 and each successive fiscal year.
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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
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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.