§ 4.08.040. Enhanced 911 customer surcharge.

A.

A surcharge to be set by council resolution not to exceed two dollars ($2.00) per month per local access line and for each wireless telephone number that is billed or sold to a customer with an address within the city shall be collected only to fund the enhanced 911 system. The council shall annually review this surcharge to determine whether the level of surcharge is adequate, excessive, or insufficient to meet the anticipated enhanced 911 system needs. A wireline telephone or wireless telephone customer may not be subject to more than one 911 surcharge per local exchange access line and wireless telephone. A customer that has more than one hundred (100) wireline access lines from a wireline telephone company in the city is liable for the 911 surcharge only on one hundred (100) wireline access line[s].

B.

The telephone companies shall bill and collect the 911 surcharge from is [its] wireline and wireless customers. The 911 surcharge billed shall be accounted for separately from other charges.

C.

The telephone companies shall remit that portion of the surcharge receipts allocable to the city no later than sixty (60) days after the end of the month in which the amount was collected. From each remittance made in a timely manner, the telephone company is entitled to deduct the greater of one percent of the amount collected or a total of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per month as the cost of administration for collecting the 911 surcharge. The telephone company shall annually furnish a complete list of amounts due for nonpayment of surcharges, together with the names and addresses of those customers who carry a balance of what can be determined by the company to be for nonpayment of the surcharge.

D.

The city, at its own expense, may require an annual audit of a telephone company's books and records concerning collection and remittance of the surcharge.

(Ord. No. 12-11-08, § 4)