2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 65 GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL UNITS 65.7635 Duty of commercial mobile radio service providers to act as collection agents for fund -- Procedure for collection of service and prepaid service charges.
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65.7635 Duty of commercial mobile radio service providers to act as collection
agents for fund -- Procedure for collection of service and prepaid service
charges.
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(3)
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(5)
Each CMRS provider shall act as a collection agent for the CMRS fund. From its
customers, the provider shall, as part of the provider's billing process, collect the
CMRS service charges levied upon CMRS connections under KRS 65.7629(3) from
each CMRS connection to whom the billing provider provides CMRS. Each billing
provider shall list the CMRS service charge as a separate entry on each bill which
includes a CMRS service charge. If a CMRS provider receives a partial payment for
a monthly bill from a CMRS customer, the provider shall first apply the payment
against the amount the CMRS customer owes the CMRS provider. For CMRS
customers who purchase CMRS services on a prepaid basis, the CMRS service
charge shall be determined according to one (1) of the following methodologies as
elected by the CMRS provider:
(a) The CMRS provider shall collect, on a monthly basis, the CMRS service
charge specified in KRS 65.7629(3) from each active customer whose account
balance is equal to or greater than the amount of service charge; or
(b) The CMRS provider shall divide its total earned prepaid wireless telephone
revenue received with respect to its prepaid customers in the Commonwealth
within the monthly 911 emergency telephone service reporting period by fifty
dollars (), multiply the quotient by the service charge amount, and pay the
resulting amount to the board; or
(c) In the case of CMRS providers that do not have the ability to access or debit
end-user accounts, and do not have retail contact with the end user or
purchaser of prepaid wireless airtime, the CMRS service charge and collection
methodology may be determined by administrative regulations promulgated
by the board to collect the service charge from such end users.
A CMRS provider has no obligation to take any legal action to enforce the
collection of the CMRS service charges for which any CMRS customer is billed.
Collection actions to enforce the collection of the CMRS service charge against any
CMRS customer may, however, be initiated by the state, on behalf of the board, in
the Circuit Court of the county where the bill for CMRS service is regularly
delivered, and the reasonable costs and attorneys' fees which are incurred in
connection with any such collection action may be awarded by the court to the
prevailing party in the action.
State and local taxes shall not apply to CMRS service charges.
To reimburse itself for the cost of collecting and remitting the CMRS service
charge, each CMRS provider may deduct and retain from the CMRS service
charges it collects during each calendar month an amount not to exceed one and
one-half percent (1.5%) of the gross aggregate amount of CMRS service charges it
collected that month.
All CMRS service charges imposed under KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 collected by
each CMRS provider, less the administrative fee described in subsection (4) of this
section, are due and payable to the board monthly and shall be remitted on or before
sixty (60) days after the end of the calendar month. Collection actions may be
initiated by the state, on behalf of the board, in the Franklin Circuit Court or any
other court of competent jurisdiction, and the reasonable costs and attorneys' fees
which are incurred in connection with any such collection action may be awarded
by the court to the prevailing party in the action.
Effective: July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 219, sec. 7, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 535, sec. 8, effective July 15, 1998.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). Although 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 219,
sec. 7, subsec. (5), contains a reference to "subsection (3) of this section," that
reference has been codified as "subsection (4) of this section" because subsection (2)
which was struck in the introduced version of the bill, was restored in the House
Committee Substitute, but the necessary adjustment to this internal reference was not
made. This manifest typographical or clerical error has been corrected in codification
under KRS 7.13(1)(h).
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