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041 <br />® <br />Lb) Prepaid Wireless. - A voice comnnmications service provider of prepaid <br />wireless telephone service must collect and remit to the 911 Board the monthly service <br />charge imposed upon prepaid wireless telephone subscribers in the State under one of <br />the following methods: <br />Collecting, the service charge from each active prepaid wireless <br />telephone service subscriber whose account balance is equal to or <br />greater than the amount of the service chars <br />Dividing the provider's total earned prepaid wireless telephone service <br />revenue received for the month from each active prepaid wireless <br />telephone service subscriber by fifty dollars (,S50.00) and multiplyuhg <br />the quotient by the amount of the service char0e <br />Lc) Remittance to 911 Board. - A voice coal nUmCations service provider must <br />remit the service charges collected by it under this section to the 911 Board The <br />provider must remit the collected service charges by the end of the calendar month <br />following, the month the provider received the charges from its subscribers A provider <br />may deduct and retain from the service Charges it receives From its subscribers and <br />remits to the 911 Board an administrative allowance equal to the greater of one percent <br />(1 of the amount of service charges remitted or fifty dollars ($50.00) a month. <br />Ld) Adjustment of Charge - The 911 Board must monitor the revenues generated <br />by the service charge. If the 911 Board determines that the rate produces revenue in <br />® <br />excess of the amount needed. the 911 Board must reduce the rate The reduced rate must <br />ensure full cost recovery for voice communications service providers and For primary <br />PSAPs over a reasonable period of time A change in the amount of the rate becomes <br />effective only on Jule 1 of an even-numbered year. The 911 Board must notify <br />providers of a change in the rate at least 90 days before the change becomes effective. <br />(e) Collection. - A voice communications service provider has no obligation to <br />take any legal action to enforce the collection of the service charge billed to a <br />subscriber. The 91 1 Board may initiate collection action and reasonable costs and <br />attorneys' fees associated with that collection action may be assessed against the <br />subscriber. At the request of the 911 Board but no more than annually a voice <br />communications service provider must report to the 911 Board the amount of the <br />provider's uncollected service charges The 911 Board may request, to the extent <br />permitted by federal privacy laws the name address and telephone number of a <br />subscriber who refuses to pay the 91 1 service cha ,,c <br />(0 Restriction. - A local government may not impose a service charge or other <br />fee on a subscriber to support the 91 1 system. <br />62A-44. 911 Fund. <br />(a) Fund. - The 911 Fund is created as an interest-bearing special revenue fund <br />within the State treasury. The 911 Board administers the Fund The 911 Board must <br />credit to the 911 Fund all revenues remitted to it from the service charge imposed by <br />G.S. 62A-43 on voice communications service connections in the State Revenue in the <br />® <br />Fund may only be used as provided in this Article <br />b <br />L <br />) Allocation of Revenues. - The 911 Board may deduct and retain for its <br />administrative expenses up to one percent (I%) of the total service charges remitted to it <br />Page 6 Session Law 2007-383 House Bill 1755 <br />