[Adopted 8-12-1991; amended in its entirety 6-10-2003]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AUTOMATIC LOCATION IDENTIFICATION (ALI)
A telephone network capability that enables the automatic display of information defining the geographical location of the telephone used to place a wireline 911.
AUTOMATIC NUMBER IDENTIFICATION (ANI)
A telephone network capability that enables the automatic display of the telephone number used to place a wireline 911 call.
BOARD
The Wireless E-911 Services Board established pursuant to § 56-484.13 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended.
ENHANCED 911 SERVICE (E-911)
A service consisting of telephone network features and PSAPs provided for users of telephone systems enabling such users to reach a PSAP by dialing the digits "911." Such service automatically directs 911 emergency telephone calls to the appropriate PSAPs by selective routing based on the geographical location from which the emergency call originated and provides the capability for ANI and ALI features.
LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIER
Any public service company or county, city or town granted a certificate to provide local exchange telephone service pursuant to Chapter 10.1 (§ 56-265.1 et seq.)
PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT (PSAP)
A communications facility equipped and staffed on a twenty-four-hour basis to receive and process 911 calls.
The governing body of the County of Page, Virginia, finds that an enhanced E-911 service has been installed in the County of Page, Virginia, and that the telephone company has central office equipment that has permitted and will continue to permit such system to be operated.
[Amended 5-17-2005]
Pursuant to § 58.1-3813.1(B) of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, the County of Page, Virginia, hereby imposes a special tax of $3 per month on the consumers of each telephone line or service now or hereafter placed into service in the County of Page, Virginia, however, exempting from such tax federal, state and local government agencies and on consumers of CMRS as such term is defined in current § 56-484.12 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended.
Proceeds from this surcharge shall be collected by the telephone service provider as part of the regular monthly billing and shall be remitted to the Treasurer of Page County, subject to a three-percent reduction in the total amount due to compensate the provider for the expense of collection.
Any such taxes imposed pursuant to the terms of this article shall be accounted for in a separate special revenue fund or accounted for using a cost center and revenue accounting system acceptable to the Auditor of Public Accounts pursuant to the provisions of § 58.1-3813.1(F) of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended. The amounts collected from the tax shall be used solely to pay for reasonable, direct recurring and nonrecurring capital costs, and operating expenses incurred by a public safety answering point in designing, upgrading, leasing, purchasing, programming, installing, testing, administering, delivery, or maintaining all necessary data, hardware and software required to receive and process emergency telephone calls through an E-911 system, including salaries and fringe benefits of dispatchers and direct call-takers of an E-911 system and costs incurred in training dispatchers and direct call-takers in receiving and dispatching emergency telephone calls, and the salary and fringe benefits of the public safety answering point director or coordinator so long as such person has no other duties other than the responsibility for the public safety answering point.