2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 24 - Government - State
Principal Departments
Article 33.5 - Public Safety
Part 2 - Colorado State Patrol
§ 24-33.5-223. State telecommunications network

(1) In order to more efficiently support the efforts of state departments, state institutions, state agencies, and law enforcement and public safety political subdivisions, and to better serve the public, there is authorized to be established a state telecommunications network, the construction, maintenance, and management of which shall be under the supervision of the state telecommunications director.

(2) (a) The state telecommunications director is authorized, subject to appropriation by the general assembly, to purchase or lease any real estate, buildings, and property necessary to the operation or development of the telecommunications network, and to use any available facilities and telecommunications equipment of any state agency or institution, and, if necessary, to provide for the construction of the network.

(b) The facilities of the network shall be made available for the use of:

(I) State departments, state institutions, state agencies, and law enforcement and public safety political subdivisions of the state;

(II) Other local, state, and federal governmental entities or public safety related nonprofit organizations that directly support any agency described in subparagraph (I) of this paragraph (b) and that:

(A) May be requested to support the purposes expressed in section 24-37.5-502 (1) (c) and (1) (e) and aggregate telecommunications service requirements of any public office described in section 24-32-3001 (1) (h); or

(B) Make donations, grants, bequests, and other contributions to the public safety communications trust fund pursuant to section 24-37.5-506 (2) (b).

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow the state telecommunications director to purchase or lease any real estate, buildings, and property necessary to the operation or development of a telecommunications network for other than state departments, state institutions, state agencies, law enforcement and public safety political subdivisions, and the entities described in subparagraph (II) of paragraph (b) of this subsection (2), nor to allow for the resale and sharing of services.

(3) All expenses of dispatchers and other necessary employees used in connection with the operation of the law enforcement radio system within the state telecommunications network shall be paid by the chief of the Colorado state patrol in the same manner as expenses of other employees of said patrol are paid.