Title 16 — Title 16 — City, County, State And Local Powers

Short title. This act is known and may be cited as the "Emergency Telephone Service Act".

(a) Definitions. As used in this act: (i) "Governing body" means the board of county commissioners of a county, city council or other governing body of a city, town or county, the board of directors of a special district or a joint powers board established pursuant to W.S. 16-4-1…

Imposition of tax; liability of user for tax; collection; uncollected amounts; discontinuing service prohibited. (a) In addition to any other powers for the protection of the public health, a governing body may incur any nonrecurring or recurring costs for the installation, maint…

Remittance of tax to the governing body; administrative fee; establishment of rate of tax. (a) Except as provided in W.S. 16-9-109, any tax imposed under this act and the amounts collected are to be remitted quarterly to the governing body. The amount of the tax collected in one …

Agreements or contract for 911 emergency reporting systems; use of funds collected. (a) Any governing body imposing the tax authorized by this act may enter into an agreement directly with any service supplier to the 911 system or may contract and cooperate with any public agency…

service. Private listing and wireless subscribers, 911 Private listing and wireless subscribers in 911 service areas waive privacy afforded by nonlisted or nonpublished numbers to the extent that the name and address associated with the telephone number may be furnished to the 91…

Confidentiality of information. The information obtained through a 911 system shall be considered a public record under W.S. 16-4-201(a)(v) and access to the information may be denied according to law.

Immunity for providers. No basic emergency service provider or service supplier and no employee or agent thereof shall be liable to any person or entity for infringement or invasion of the right of privacy of any person caused or claimed to have been caused, directly or indirectl…

State-wide imposition of tax; prepaid wireless; collection; distribution; immunity. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, on and after July 1, 2016, there is imposed a 911 emergency tax of one and five-tenths percent (1.5%) on every retail sale of prepaid wireless com…

Statewide 911 coordinator. The governor shall designate an individual within the department of transportation as the statewide 911 coordinator, who shall be a qualified elector of the state and whose duties may be removed by the governor. The coordinator shall be responsible for …

emergency.

Providing call location information in an 911 outage reporting. Any service supplier who owns, operates or controls any communications equipment necessary for the operation of a 911 emergency reporting system shall, if the failure of the communications equipment disables, impairs…

911 study and grants. (a) From funds appropriated for that purpose, the department of transportation shall conduct a study, with input from the stakeholders and industry, examining the transition to next generation 911 within the state of Wyoming. The study shall include, without…

Definitions. (a) As used in this act, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply: (i) "Access line" means the facility that allows the customer of a local exchange company or radio communications service provider to access the local or toll network wit…

Committee on telecommunications services for the communications impaired; composition; allocation. (a) There is created a committee on telecommunications services for the communications impaired. (b) The committee shall consist of seven (7) members. The membership shall be appoin…

Term of office; vacancies; officers; bylaws; compensation; conflict of interest. (a) Each member of the committee shall serve a term of three (3) years, except that the governor shall appoint two (2) of the initial members to serve terms of one (1) year and two (2) of the initial…

Power and duties of the committee. (a) The committee shall advise the division as to the administration of the program provided for in W.S. 16-9-205. fulfilling this duty, the committee shall: In (i) Review and recommend policies and procedures governing administration of the pro…

Program established; purpose; responsibilities of the division of vocational rehabilitation. (a) The division in consultation with the committee, shall establish and administer a program to provide specialized telecommunications equipment and message relay services to persons who…

Message relay system; requirements. (a) The division, after consultation with the committee, shall contract with a qualified provider to design and implement a message relay system that fulfills the purpose described in W.S. 16-9-205. The division shall award the contract for thi…

Gifts and grants. The committee may accept contributions, gifts and grants, in money or otherwise, to the program established in W.S. 16-9-205. Monetary contributions, gifts and grants must be deposited in the fund created by W.S. 16-9-208.

Account for telecommunications services for the communications impaired. (a) There is created an account for telecommunications services for the communications impaired. The account shall consist of: (i) All monetary contributions, gifts and grants received by the committee as pr…

Special fee. (a) The committee shall annually determine the amount of a special fee, not to exceed twenty-five cents ($.25) per access line per month, based upon available cost data and other information, that will cover the costs of providing intrastate message relay service as …

Records; audit. (a) Each local exchange company or radio communications service provider shall maintain a record of the special fees billed and collected pursuant to W.S. 16-9-209 for a period of three (3) years from the date of billing or collection, respectively. (b) The commit…