2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 65 - GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL UNITS 65.7623 Commercial Mobile Radio Service Emergency Telecommunications Board of Kentucky.
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65.7623 Commercial Mobile Radio Service Emergency Telecommunications
Board of Kentucky.
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There is hereby created the Commercial Mobile Radio Service Emergency
Telecommunications Board of Kentucky, the "CMRS Board," consisting of ten
(10) members, appointed by the Governor as follows: two (2) members shall be
employed by or representative of the interest of CMRS providers, of which, one
(1) shall be a representative of a Tier III CMRS provider; one (1) member shall
be a mayor of a city of the first or second class or urban-county government or
his or her designee containing a public safety answering point; one (1) member
shall be appointed from a list of local exchange landline telephone companies'
representatives submitted by the Kentucky Telephone Association; one (1)
member shall be a director of a certified public safety answering point operated
by a local governmental entity or a consolidated group of local governmental
entities appointed from lists of candidates submitted to the Governor by the
Kentucky Firefighters Association, the State Association of Chiefs of Police,
and the Kentucky Ambulance Providers Association; two (2) members shall be
appointed from lists of candidates submitted to the Governor by the Kentucky
Emergency Number Association and the Association of Public Communications
Officials; and one (1) member shall be a director of a certified public safety
answering point operated by a local government entity or a consolidated group
of local governmental entities. The commissioner of the Department of
Kentucky State Police, or the commissioner's designee, and the CMRS
emergency telecommunications administrator also shall be members of the
board. Any vacancy on the board shall be filled in the same manner as the
original appointment.
The commissioner and administrator shall serve by virtue of their office. The
other members shall be appointed no later than August 15, 1998, for a term of
four (4) years and until their successors are appointed and qualified, except
that of the first appointments, one (1) shall be for a term of one (1) year, one
(1) shall be for a term of two (2) years, one (1) for a term of three (3) years, and
two (2) shall be for a term of four (4) years. Any member missing three (3)
consecutive meetings may be removed by a majority vote of the remaining
voting members.
In addition to the administrator, the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security shall
provide staff services and carry out administrative duties and functions as
directed by the board. The board shall be attached to the Kentucky Office of
Homeland Security for administrative purposes only and shall operate as an
independent entity within state government.
The board members shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed
in accordance with KRS 45.101 for expenses incurred in connection with their
official duties as members of the board.
All administrative costs and expenses incurred in the operation of the board,
including payments under subsection (4) of this section, shall be paid from that
portion of the CMRS fund that is authorized under KRS 65.7631 to be used by
the board for administrative purposes.
Effective:June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 140, effective June 26, 2007. --
Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 193, sec. 13, effective July 12, 2006; and ch. 219,
sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 93,
effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 506, sec. 18, effective
July 14, 2000; and ch. 536, sec. 18, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1998 Ky.
Acts ch. 535, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 193,
sec. 14, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to
agencies, subagencies, and officers whose names have been changed in 2006
legislation confirming the reorganization of the executive branch. Such a
correction has been made in this section.
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