[Adopted 8-12-1991; amended in its entirety 6-10-2003]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A telephone network capability that enables the automatic
display of information defining the geographical location of the telephone
used to place a wireline 911.
A telephone network capability that enables the automatic
display of the telephone number used to place a wireline 911 call.
The Wireless E-911 Services Board established pursuant to
§ 56-484.13 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended.
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.
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.)
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.
