2000 Minnesota Statutes

     473.901 Use of emergency telephone service fee; budgets; 
  appropriation transfers; audits. 

    Subdivision 1.    Costs covered by fee.  For each fiscal 
 year beginning with the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1997, the 
 amount necessary to pay the following costs is appropriated to 
 the commissioner of administration from the 911 emergency 
 telephone service account established under section 403.11: 

    (1) debt service costs and reserves for bonds issued 
 pursuant to section 473.898; 

    (2) repayment of the right-of-way acquisition loans; 

    (3) costs of design, construction, maintenance of, and 
 improvements to those elements of the first phase that support 
 mutual aid communications and emergency medical services; or 

    (4) recurring charges for leased sites and equipment for 
 those elements of the first phase that support actual aid and 
 emergency medical communication services. 

    This appropriation shall be used to pay annual debt service 
 costs and reserves for bonds issued pursuant to section 473.898 
 prior to use of fee money to pay other costs eligible under this 
 subdivision.  In no event shall the appropriation for each 
 fiscal year exceed an amount equal to four cents a month for 
 each customer access line or other basic access service, 
 including trunk equivalents as designated by the public 
 utilities commission for access charge purposes and including 
 cellular and other nonwire access services, in the fiscal year. 

    Subd. 2.    Annual budget of radio board.  The 
 metropolitan council shall transmit the annual budget of the 
 radio board to the commissioner of administration no later than 
 December 15 of each year.  The commissioner of administration 
 shall include eligible costs for the regionwide public safety 
 communication system in its request for legislative 
 appropriations from the 911 emergency telephone service fee 
 account.  All eligible costs approved by the radio board shall 
 be included in the commissioner of administration's 
 appropriation request.  

    Subd. 3.    Appropriation transfers.  Each month, before 
 the 25th day of the month, the commissioner of administration 
 shall transmit to the metropolitan council 1/12 of its total 
 approved appropriation for the regionwide public safety 
 communication system. 

    HIST: 1995 c 195 art 1 s 11; 1996 c 463 s 47