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2025 Utah Code
Title 69 - Telegraphic and Telephonic Transactions
Chapter 2 - Emergency Service and Prepaid Wireless Telecommunications Service
Part 2 - Public Safety Answering Points and Dispatch Centers
Section 203 - Audit of public safety answering points within a county -- Reports -- Consequence of failure to comply.
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UT Code § 69-2-203 (2025)
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Effective 5/7/2025
69-2-203. Audit of public safety answering points within a county -- Reports -- Consequence of failure to comply.
Amended by Chapter 346, 2025 General Session
69-2-203. Audit of public safety answering points within a county -- Reports -- Consequence of failure to comply.
- (1)A county that by June 30, 2024, failed to achieve a transfer rate, as defined in Section 69-2-204, of 2% or less shall:
- (a)utilize a qualified third party to conduct an audit of each public safety answering point within the county; and
- (b)require the audit to be completed no later than January 1, 2025.
- (2)The audit described in Subsection (1) shall evaluate:
- (a)how best to provide the emergency services within the county;
- (b)what needs to happen for the PSAPs within the county to achieve a transfer rate, as defined in Section 69-2-204, of 2% or less;
- (c)whether the county could provide more cost efficient emergency service or improve public safety by establishing a single public safety answering point for the county; and
- (d)the extent to which the dispatch center's policies, procedures, or interlocal agreements cause a PSAP to experience difficulty in meeting the standards described in Section 69-2-204.
- (3)No later than February 28, 2025, a county required to have an audit conducted under Subsection (1) shall submit to the Utah Communications Authority:
- (a)a copy of the audit report;
- (b)a written plan of how and when the public safety answering point will implement the audit recommendations and achieve compliance with the standards described in Section 69-2-204; and
- (c)on or before January 1 of each year, beginning in 2026 and ending in 2029, submit to the Utah Communications Authority an implementation report that describes:
- (i)the progress made in implementing the audit recommendations; and
- (ii)the status of achieving compliance with the standards described in Section 69-2-204.
Amended by Chapter 346, 2025 General Session
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