2005 Minnesota Statutes - 403.21 — Definitions.

     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" or 
 "Metropolitan Radio Board" means the Metropolitan Radio Board or 
 its successor regional 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 the plan adopted by the 
 Metropolitan Radio Board for a regionwide public safety radio 
 communications system.  


    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 the Metropolitan Radio 
 Board, 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 under 
 section 403.23, subdivision 6, 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. 


    HIST: 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