2007 Minnesota Statutes

403.21 DEFINITIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Applications. The definitions in this section apply to sections 403.21 to
403.40.
    Subd. 2. Board. "Board" or "radio board" means the Statewide Radio Board.
    Subd. 3. First phase. "First phase" or "first phase of the regionwide public safety radio
communication system" means the initial backbone which serves the following nine-county
metropolitan area: Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Scott, and
Washington Counties.
    Subd. 4. Local elected officials. "Local elected officials" means any elected official of
a local government.
    Subd. 5. Local government. "Local government" means any county, home rule charter
or statutory city, or town.
    Subd. 6. NPSPAC channels. "NPSPAC channels" or "National Public Safety Planning
Advisory Committee channels" means the following 800 megahertz channels: 821 to 824 and
866 to 869 megahertz.
    Subd. 7. Plan. "Plan" or "regionwide public safety radio system communication plan"
means a plan adopted by a regional radio board.
    Subd. 8. Subsystems. "Subsystems" or "public safety radio subsystems" means systems
identified in the plan or a plan developed under section 403.36 as subsystems interconnected
by the system backbone and operated by a regional radio board or local government units for
their own internal operations.
    Subd. 9. System backbone. "System backbone" or "backbone" means a public safety radio
communication system that consists of a shared, trunked, communication, and interoperability
infrastructure network, including, but not limited to, radio towers and associated structures
and equipment, the elements of which are identified in the regionwide public safety radio
communication system plan and the statewide radio communication plan under section 403.36.
    Subd. 10. Second phase. "Second phase" means the enhancement of the phase one backbone
by local government units building subsystems in the metropolitan area that did not build their
own subsystems in the first phase.
    Subd. 11. Third phase. "Third phase" means an extension of the backbone system to serve
the southeast and central districts of the State Patrol.
    Subd. 12. Greater Minnesota. "Greater Minnesota" means the area of the state outside the
nine-county metropolitan area served by the first phase.
    Subd. 13. Regional radio board. "Regional radio board" or "regional board" means a
regional radio board established under section 403.39.
History: 1995 c 195 art 1 s 2; 2002 c 401 art 1 s 4,5; 1Sp2003 c 1 art 2 s 113,114,135; 2004
c 201 s 2-10; 2005 c 136 art 10 s 16; 2006 c 260 art 6 s 13-16