25 §1535. Fees for public safety answering point services and dispatch services - Maine Statutes

Title 25: INTERNAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY

Part 4: STATE POLICE

Chapter 192-B: MAINE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM POLICY BOARD HEADING: PL 2003, C. 678, §2 (NEW); RR 2003, C. 2, §88 (COR)

§1535. Fees for public safety answering point services and dispatch services

The board, in accordance with this section, shall establish the fees that must be paid by political subdivisions for public safety answering point services and dispatch services provided by the department to those political subdivisions, including services provided pursuant to section 2923‐A. All political subdivisions that are to be provided public safety answering point services and dispatch services shall provide to the board all information the board determines necessary in order to establish the fees. [2009, c. 617, §5 (AMD).]

1. Fees. The board shall seek to establish fees under this section that are based on the incremental costs of providing public safety answering point services and dispatch services to political subdivisions.

[ 2009, c. 617, §5 (NEW) .]

2. Base funding level. In order to determine incremental costs under subsection 1, the board shall first establish a base funding level, consistent with the department's legislatively approved budget for public safety answering point services and dispatch services, required to provide public safety answering point services and dispatch services to State Government entities. The base funding level must be based on services provided by the department prior to the provision of emergency dispatch and E‐9‐1‐1 call-taking services to municipal and county governments as a result of actions taken by the bureau under section 1533. The base funding level must be excluded by the board from its determination of incremental costs under subsection 1.

[ 2009, c. 617, §5 (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

2007, c. 622, §1 (NEW). 2009, c. 617, §5 (AMD).