Section 1-306 - Responsibilities of Board - Coordination of enhancement of 9-1-1 systems. - Maryland Statutes

§ 1-306. Responsibilities of Board - Coordination of enhancement of 9-1-1 systems.
 

(a)  In general.- The Board shall coordinate the enhancement of county 9-1-1 systems. 

(b)  Specific responsibilities.- The Board's responsibilities include: 

(1) establishing planning guidelines for enhanced 9-1-1 system plans and deployment of wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service in accordance with this subtitle; 

(2) establishing procedures to review and approve or disapprove county plans and to evaluate requests for variations from the planning guidelines established by the Board; 

(3) establishing procedures for the request for reimbursement of the costs of enhancing a 9-1-1 system by a county or counties in which a 9-1-1 system is in operation, and procedures to review and approve or disapprove the request; 

(4) transmitting the planning guidelines and procedures established under this section, and any amendments to them, to the governing body of each county; 

(5) submitting to the Secretary each year a schedule for implementing the enhancement of county or multicounty 9-1-1 systems, and an estimate of funding requirements based on the approved county plans; 

(6) developing, with input from counties, and publishing on or before July 1, 2004, an implementation schedule for deployment of wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service; 

(7) reviewing and approving or disapproving requests for reimbursement of the costs of enhancing 9-1-1 systems, and submitting to the Secretary each year a schedule for reimbursement and an estimate of funding requirements; 

(8) reviewing the enhancement of 9-1-1 systems; 

(9) providing for an audit of county expenditures for the operation and maintenance of 9-1-1 systems; 

(10) ensuring inspections of public safety answering points; 

(11) reviewing and approving or disapproving requests from counties with operational enhanced 9-1-1 systems to be exempted from the expenditure limitations under § 1-312 of this subtitle; and 

(12) authorizing expenditures from the 9-1-1 Trust Fund that: 

(i) are for enhancements of 9-1-1 systems that: 

1. are required by the Board; 

2. will be provided to a county by a third party contractor; and 

3. will incur costs that the Board has approved before the formation of a contract between the county and the contractor; and 

(ii) are approved by the Board for payment: 

1. from money collected under § 1-310 of this subtitle; and 

2. directly to a third party contractor on behalf of a county. 

(c)  Planning guidelines.- The guidelines established by the Board under subsection (b)(1) of this section: 

(1) shall be based on available technology and equipment; and 

(2) may be based on any other factor that the Board determines is appropriate, including population and area served by 9-1-1 systems. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 41, § 18-103(h); 2003, ch. 5, § 2; ch. 21, § 7; ch. 451; 2007, ch. 5.]