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                                  TITLE  31
                           COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW
                                  CHAPTER 48
                         EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS ACT
    31-4804A.  ESTABLISHMENT OF ENHANCED CONSOLIDATED EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
SYSTEMS. (1) Any county or 911 service area that has established a basic
consolidated emergency system may establish an enhanced consolidated emergency
system by action of the governing board of the basic consolidated emergency
system.
    (2)  The governing boards establishing enhanced consolidated emergency
systems shall request that wireless carriers serving such counties or 911
service areas collectively implement an enhanced consolidated emergency
communications system within a reasonable time. When so requested, all
wireless carriers serving such counties or 911 service areas  shall implement
enhanced consolidated emergency communications systems within a reasonable
time. The governing boards and wireless carriers shall enter into agreements
that:
    (a)  Establish the scope and purpose of the proposed enhanced consolidated
    emergency communications system.
    (b)  Provide for an agreed-to level of reimbursement for
    telecommunications providers for the costs of wireless carriers resulting
    from their implementation and operation of enhanced emergency
    communications systems that may include the acquisition, construction,
    financing, installation and operation of all equipment and facilities
    necessary to implement such enhanced systems.
    (c)  Provide that the agreed-to level of reimbursement for
    telecommunications providers for enhanced 911 service may include the
    costs and expenses incurred for designing, upgrading, purchasing, leasing,
    programming, installing, testing, or maintaining all necessary data,
    hardware and software required in order to provide such service as well as
    the recurring and nonrecurring costs of operating such service. All costs
    and expenses must be commercially reasonable.
    (d)  Provide that reimbursement to a telecommunications provider shall be
    nondiscriminatory and be made available to all other telecommunications
    providers.
Agreements shall provide for prompt reimbursement on invoices submitted by
wireless carriers to the governing board.