2011 Minnesota Statutes

403.33 LOCAL PLANNING.

Subdivision 1.County planning process.

(a) No later than two years from May 22, 1995, each metropolitan county shall undertake and complete a planning process for its public safety radio subsystem to ensure participation by representatives of local government units, quasi-public service organizations, and private entities eligible to use the regional public safety radio system and to ensure coordination and planning of the local subsystems. Local governments and other eligible users shall cooperate with the county in its preparation of the subsystem plan to ensure that local needs are met.

(b) The regional radio board for the metropolitan area shall encourage the establishment by each metropolitan county of local public safety radio subsystem committees composed of representatives of local governments and other eligible users for the purposes of:

(1) establishing a plan for coordinated and timely use of the regionwide public safety radio system by the local governments and other eligible users within each metropolitan county; and

(2) assisting and advising the regional radio board for the metropolitan area in its implementation of the regional public safety radio plan by identification of local service needs and objectives.

(c) The regional radio board for the metropolitan area shall also encourage the establishment of joint or multicounty planning for the regionwide public safety radio system and subsystems.

(d) The regional radio board for the metropolitan area may provide local boards with whatever assistance it deems necessary and appropriate.

(e) No metropolitan county or city of the first class shall be required to undertake a technical subsystem design to meet the planning process requirements of this subdivision or subdivision 2.

Subd. 2.Cities of first class; planning process.

Each city of the first class in the metropolitan counties shall have the option to participate in the county public safety radio subsystem planning process or develop its own plan.

Subd. 3.Submission of plans to board.

Each metropolitan county and each city of the first class in the metropolitan area which has chosen to develop its own plan shall submit the plan to the regional radio board for the metropolitan area for the board's review and approval.

Subd. 4.Local government joinder.

Local government units, except for cities of the first class, quasi-public service organizations, and private entities eligible to use the regional public safety radio system cannot join the system until its county plan has been approved by the regional radio board for the metropolitan area.

History:

1995 c 195 art 1 s 14; 1Sp2003 c 1 art 2 s 135; 2006 c 260 art 6 s 17