Source: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/128
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 04:28:43+00:00

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(2) Receives, develops, collects, or processes requests for emergency assistance and relays, transfers, operates, maintains, or provides emergency notification services or system capabilities.
(1) "Wireless service" means federally licensed commercial mobile service as defined in 47 U.S.C. 332 (d) and further defined as commercial mobile radio service in 47 C.F.R. 20.3, and includes service provided by any wireless, two-way communications device, including a radio-telephone communications line used in cellular telephone service or personal communications service, a network radio access line, or any functional or competitive equivalent of such a radio-telephone communications or network radio access line.
(T) "Final plan" means a final plan adopted under division (B) of section 128.08 of the Revised Code and, except as otherwise expressly provided, an amended final plan adopted under section 128.12 of the Revised Code.
(W) "Telephone company" means a company engaged in the business of providing local exchange telephone service by making available or furnishing access and a dial tone to persons within a local calling area for use in originating and receiving voice grade communications over a switched network operated by the provider of the service within the area and gaining access to other telecommunications services. Unless otherwise specified, "telephone company" includes a wireline service provider , a wireless service provider , and any entity that is a covered 9-1-1 service provider under 47 C.F.R. 12.4. For purposes of sections 128.25 and 128.26 of the Revised Code, "telephone company" means a wireline service provider.
(DD) "Steering committee" means the statewide emergency services internet protocol network steering committee established by division (A)(1) of section 128.02 of the Revised Code.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.01 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.40 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.02 Statewide emergency services internet protocol network steering committee.
(1) The state chief information officer or the officer's designee shall serve as the chairperson of the steering committee and shall be a nonvoting member. All other members shall be voting members.
(8) Serve as the entity responsible for the administration of Chapter 128. of the Revised Code.
(c) Any other information requested by the steering committee deemed necessary to support the transition to next generation 9-1-1.
(e) Any other information requested by the steering committee that is deemed necessary to support the transition to next generation 9-1-1.
(3) The information requested under divisions (D)(1) and (2) of this section shall be provided by the 9-1-1 service provider, political subdivision, or governmental entity within forty-five days of the request of the steering committee.
(1) The steering committee shall have a permanent technical-standards subcommittee and a permanent public-safety-answering-point-operations subcommittee, and may, from time to time, establish additional subcommittees, to advise and assist the steering committee based upon the subcommittees' areas of expertise.
(H) As used in this section, "9-1-1 system," "wireless service provider," "wireline service provider," "emergency service provider," and "public safety answering point" have the same meanings as in section 128.01 of the Revised Code.
(I) As used in this section, "bill and keep arrangements" has the same meaning as in 47 C.F.R. 51.713.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.02 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 125.183 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.021 Adoption of rules establishing technical and operational standards for public safety answering points.
(A) Not later than January 1, 2014, and in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the steering committee shall adopt rules that establish technical and operational standards for public safety answering points eligible to receive disbursements under section 128.55 of the Revised Code. The rules shall incorporate industry standards and best practices for wireless 9-1-1 services. Public safety answering points shall comply with the standards not later than two years after the effective date of the rules adopting the standards.
(2) A requirement that all public safety answering point personnel complete proper training or provide proof of prior training to give instructions regarding emergency situations.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.021 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
The steering committee shall establish guidelines for the tax commissioner to use when disbursing money from the next generation 9-1-1 fund to countywide 9-1-1 systems in the state. The guidelines shall be consistent with the standards adopted in section 128.021 of the Revised Code and shall specify that disbursements may be used for costs associated with the operation of and equipment for phase II wireless systems and for costs associated with a county's migration to next generation 9-1-1 systems and technology.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.022 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
(1) A countywide 9-1-1 system shall include all of the territory of the townships and municipal corporations in the county and any portion of such a municipal corporation that extends into an adjacent county.
(2) The system shall exclude any territory served by a wireline service provider that is not capable of reasonably meeting the technical and economic requirements of providing the wireline telephone network portion of the countywide system for that territory. The system shall exclude from enhanced 9-1-1 any territory served by a wireline service provider that is not capable of reasonably meeting the technical and economic requirements of providing the wireline telephone network portion of enhanced 9-1-1 for that territory. If a 9-1-1 planning committee and a wireline service provider do not agree on whether the provider is so capable, the planning committee shall notify the steering committee, and the steering committee shall determine whether the wireline service provider is so capable. The planning committee shall ascertain whether such disagreement exists before making its implementation proposal under division (A) of section 128.07 of the Revised Code. The steering committee's determination shall be in the form of an order. No final plan shall require a wireline service provider to provide the wireline telephone network portion of a 9-1-1 system that the steering committee has determined the provider is not reasonably capable of providing.
(1) Each public safety answering point shall be operated by a subdivision or a regional council of governments and shall be operated constantly.
(2) A subdivision or a regional council of governments that operates a public safety answering point shall pay all of the costs associated with establishing, equipping, furnishing, operating, and maintaining that facility and shall allocate those costs among itself and the subdivisions served by the answering point based on the allocation formula in a final plan. The wireline service provider or other entity that provides or maintains the customer premises equipment shall bill the operating subdivision or the operating regional council of governments for the cost of providing such equipment, or its maintenance. A wireless service provider and a subdivision or regional council of governments operating a public safety answering point may enter into a service agreement for providing wireless enhanced 9-1-1 pursuant to a final plan adopted under this chapter.
(E) Except to the extent provided in a final plan that provides for funding of a 9-1-1 system in part through charges imposed under section 128.22 of the Revised Code, each subdivision served by a public safety answering point shall pay the subdivision or regional council of governments that operates the answering point the amount computed in accordance with the allocation formula set forth in the final plan.
(F) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the purchase or other acquisition, installation, and maintenance of the telephone network for a 9-1-1 system and the purchase or other acquisition, installation, and maintenance of customer premises equipment at a public safety answering point made in compliance with a final plan or an agreement under section 128.09 of the Revised Code, including customer premises equipment used to provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1, are not subject to any requirement of competitive bidding.
(H) Whenever a final plan provides for the implementation of basic 9-1-1, the planning committee shall so notify the steering committee, which shall determine whether the wireline service providers serving the territory covered by the plan are capable of reasonably meeting the technical and economic requirements of providing the wireline telephone network portion of an enhanced 9-1-1 system. The determination shall be made solely for purposes of division (C)(2) of section 128.18 of the Revised Code.
(J) A final plan adopted under this chapter, or an agreement under section 128.09 of the Revised Code, may provide that, by further agreement included in the plan or agreement, the state highway patrol or one or more public safety answering points of another 9-1-1 system is the public safety answering point or points for the provision of wireline or wireless 9-1-1 for all or part of the territory of the 9-1-1 system established under the plan or agreement. In that event, the subdivision for which the wireline or wireless 9-1-1 is provided as named in the agreement shall be deemed the subdivision operating the public safety answering point or points for purposes of this chapter, except that, for the purpose of division (D)(2) of this section, that subdivision shall pay only so much of the costs of establishing, equipping, furnishing, operating, or maintaining any such public safety answering point as are specified in the agreement with the patrol or other system.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.03 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.41 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.04 Informing individuals calling about drug overdoses about immunity from prosecution for a minor drug possession offense.
(A) Public safety answering point personnel who are certified as emergency service telecommunicators under section 4742.03 of the Revised Code shall receive training in informing individuals who call about an apparent drug overdose about the immunity from prosecution for a minor drug possession offense created by section 2925.11 of the Revised Code.
(B) Public safety answering point personnel who receive a call about an apparent drug overdose shall make reasonable efforts, upon the caller's inquiry, to inform the caller about the immunity from prosecution for a minor drug possession offense created by section 2925.11 of the Revised Code.
128.06 Planning committee and technical advisory committee.
(B) Within thirty days after the adoption of a resolution to convene the committee under division (A) of this section, the committee shall convene for the sole purpose of developing a final plan for implementing a countywide 9-1-1 system. The county shall provide the committee with any clerical, legal, and other staff assistance necessary to develop the final plan and shall pay for copying, mailing, and any other such expenses incurred by the committee in developing the final plan and in meeting the requirements imposed by sections 128.06 to 128.08 of the Revised Code.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.06 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.42 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.07 Proposal to implement system; final plan.
(D) As used in this section, "internet identifier of record" has the same meaning as in section 9.312 of the Revised Code.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.07 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.43 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.08 Resolution to approve or disapprove plan.
(A) Within sixty days after receipt of the final plan pursuant to division (C) of section 128.07 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of the county and the legislative authority of each municipal corporation in the county and of each township whose territory is proposed to be included in a countywide 9-1-1 system shall act by resolution to approve or disapprove the plan, except that, with respect to a final plan that provides for funding of the 9-1-1 system in part through charges imposed under section 128.22 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall not act by resolution to approve or disapprove the plan until after a resolution adopted under section 128.22 of the Revised Code has become effective as provided in division (D) of that section. A municipal corporation or township whose territory is proposed to be included in the system includes any municipal corporation or township in which a part of its territory is excluded pursuant to division (A)(2) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code. Each such authority immediately shall notify the board of county commissioners in writing of its approval or disapproval of the final plan. Failure by a board or legislative authority to notify the board of county commissioners of approval or disapproval within such sixty-day period shall be deemed disapproval by the board or authority.
(C) After a countywide plan approved in accordance with this section is adopted, all of the telephone companies, subdivisions, and regional councils of governments included in the plan are subject to the specific requirements of the plan and to this chapter.
Renumbered from § 5507.08 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.44 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.09 Municipal corporations or townships establishing own system.
(A) If a final plan is disapproved under division (B) of section 128.08 of the Revised Code, by resolution, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or township that contains at least thirty per cent of the county's population may establish within its boundaries, or the legislative authorities of a group of municipal corporations or townships each of which is contiguous with at least one other such municipal corporation or township in the group, together containing at least thirty per cent of the county's population, may jointly establish within their boundaries a 9-1-1 system. For that purpose, the municipal corporation or township may enter into an agreement, and the contiguous municipal corporations or townships may jointly enter into an agreement with one or more telephone companies.
(B) If no resolution has been adopted to convene a 9-1-1 planning committee under section 128.06 of the Revised Code, by resolution, the legislative authority of any municipal corporation in the county may establish within its boundaries, or the legislative authorities of a group of municipal corporations and townships each of which is contiguous to at least one of the other such municipal corporations or townships in the group may jointly establish within their boundaries, a 9-1-1 system. For that purpose, the municipal corporation, or contiguous municipal corporations and townships, may enter into an agreement with one or more telephone companies.
(C) Whenever a telephone company that is a wireline service provider and one or more municipal corporations and townships enter into an agreement under division (A) or (B) of this section to provide for the wireline telephone network portion of a basic 9-1-1 system, the telephone company shall so notify the steering committee, which shall determine whether the telephone company is capable of reasonably meeting the technical and economic requirements of providing the wireline telephone network for an enhanced system within the territory served by the company and covered by the agreement. The determination shall be made solely for the purposes of division (C)(2) of section 128.18 of the Revised Code.
(E) A telephone company that is a wireline service provider shall recover the cost of installing the wireline telephone network system pursuant to agreements made under this section as provided in sections 128.18 and 5733.55 of the Revised Code.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.09 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.48 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
(1) To amend a final plan for the purpose described in division (A)(7) of this section, an entity that wishes to be added as a participant in a 9-1-1 system shall file a written letter of that intent with the board of county commissioners of the county that approved the final plan. The final plan is deemed amended upon the filing of that letter. The entity that files the letter shall send written notice of that filing to all subdivisions, regional councils of governments, and telephone companies participating in the system.
(2) An amendment to a final plan for any other purpose set forth in division (A) of this section may be made by an addendum approved by a majority of the 9-1-1 planning committee. The board of county commissioners shall call a meeting of the 9-1-1 planning committee for the purpose of considering an addendum pursuant to this division.
(3) Adoption of any resolution under section 128.22 of the Revised Code pursuant to a final plan that both has been adopted and provides for funding through charges imposed under that section is not an amendment of a final plan for the purpose of this division.
(C) When a final plan is amended for a purpose described in division (A)(1), (2), or (7) of this section, sections 128.18 and 5733.55 of the Revised Code apply with respect to the receipt of the nonrecurring and recurring rates and charges for the wireline telephone network portion of the 9-1-1 system.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.12 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.45 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.15 Deadline for installation of 9-1-1 system.
(A) Within three years from the date an initial final plan becomes effective under division (B) of section 128.08 of the Revised Code, the wireline service providers designated in the plan shall have installed the wireline telephone network portion of the 9-1-1 system according to the terms, conditions, requirements, and specifications set forth in that plan.
(1) Upon installation of a countywide 9-1-1 system, the board of county commissioners may direct the county engineer to erect and maintain at the county boundaries on county roads and state and interstate highways, signs indicating the availability of a countywide 9-1-1 system. Any sign erected by a county under this section shall be erected in accordance with and meet the specifications established under division (B)(2) of this section. All expenses incurred in erecting and maintaining the signs shall be paid by the county.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.15 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.46 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.18 Determining rates and charges.
(A) In accordance with this chapter and Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., and 4909. of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall determine the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for the wireline telephone network portion of a basic or enhanced 9-1-1 system, and each telephone company that is a wireline service provider participating in the system shall be subject to those chapters, to the extent they apply, as to the service provided by its portion of the wireline telephone network for the system as described in the final plan or to be installed pursuant to agreements under section 128.09 of the Revised Code, and as to the rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for that service.
(B) Only the customers of a participating telephone company described in division (A) of this section that are served within the area covered by a 9-1-1 system shall pay the recurring rates for the maintenance and operation of the company's portion of the wireline telephone network of the system. Such rates shall be computed by dividing the total monthly recurring rates set forth in the company's schedule as filed in accordance with section 4905.30 of the Revised Code, by the total number of residential and business customer access lines, or their equivalent, within the area served. Each residential and business customer within the area served shall pay the recurring rates based on the number of its residential and business customer access lines or their equivalent. No company shall include such amount on any customer's bill until the company has completed its portion of the wireline telephone network in accordance with the terms, conditions, requirements, and specifications of the final plan or an agreement made under section 128.09 of the Revised Code.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2) of this section, a participating telephone company described in division (A) of this section may receive through the credit authorized by section 5733.55 of the Revised Code the total nonrecurring charges for its portion of the wireline telephone network of the system and the total nonrecurring charges for any updating or modernization of that wireline telephone network in accordance with the terms, conditions, requirements, and specifications of the final plan or pursuant to agreements under section 128.09 of the Revised Code, as such charges are set forth in the schedule filed by the telephone company in accordance with section 4905.30 of the Revised Code. However, that portion, updating, or modernization shall not be for or include the provision of wireless 9-1-1. As applicable, the receipt of permissible charges shall occur only upon the completion of the installation of the network or the completion of the updating or modernization.
(b) At the time the final plan or agreement pursuant to section 128.09 of the Revised Code calling for the basic 9-1-1 system was agreed to, the telephone company was capable of reasonably meeting the technical and economic requirements of providing the wireline telephone network portion of an enhanced 9-1-1 system within the territory proposed to be upgraded, as determined by the steering committee under division (A) or (H) of section 128.03 or division (C) of section 128.09 of the Revised Code.
(3) If the credit is not allowed under division (C)(2) of this section, the total nonrecurring charges for the wireline telephone network used in providing 9-1-1 service, as set forth in the schedule filed by a telephone company in accordance with section 4905.30 of the Revised Code, on completion of the installation of the network in accordance with the terms, conditions, requirements, and specifications of the final plan or pursuant to section 128.09 of the Revised Code, shall be paid by the municipal corporations and townships with any territory in the area in which such upgrade from basic to enhanced 9-1-1 is made.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.18 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.47 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.22 Imposing charges on improved realty to pay for public safety answering points.
(1) For the purpose of paying the costs of establishing, equipping, and furnishing one or more public safety answering points as part of a countywide 9-1-1 system effective under division (B) of section 128.08 of the Revised Code and paying the expense of administering and enforcing this section, the board of county commissioners of a county, in accordance with this section, may fix and impose, on each lot or parcel of real property in the county that is owned by a person, municipal corporation, township, or other political subdivision and is improved, or is in the process of being improved, reasonable charges to be paid by each such owner. The charges shall be sufficient to pay only the estimated allowed costs and shall be equal in amount for all such lots or parcels.
(B) Any board adopting a resolution under this section pursuant to a final plan initiating the establishment of a 9-1-1 system or pursuant to an amendment to a final plan shall adopt the resolution within sixty days after the board receives the final plan for the 9-1-1 system pursuant to division (C) of section 128.07 of the Revised Code. The board by resolution may change any charge imposed under this section whenever the board considers it advisable. Any resolution adopted under this section shall declare whether securities will be issued under Chapter 133. of the Revised Code in anticipation of the collection of unpaid special assessments levied under this section.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.22 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.51 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.25 Election on adding monthly charge to telephone bills to fund 9-1-1 system.
(2) The board of county commissioners, at least once, has submitted to the electors of the county the question of raising funds for a 9-1-1 system under section 128.22, 5705.19, or 5739.026 of the Revised Code, and a majority of the electors has disapproved the question each time it was submitted.
(D) Money raised from a monthly charge on telephone access lines under this section shall be deposited into a special fund created in the county treasury by the board of county commissioners pursuant to section 5705.12 of the Revised Code, to be used only for the necessary equipment costs of establishing and maintaining no more than three public safety answering points of a countywide 9-1-1 system pursuant to a resolution adopted under division (B) of this section. In complying with this division, any county may seek the assistance of the steering committee with regard to operating and maintaining a 9-1-1 system.
(E) Pursuant to the voter approval required by division (C) of this section, the final plan for a countywide 9-1-1 system that will be funded through a monthly charge imposed in accordance with this section shall be amended by the existing 9-1-1 planning committee, and the amendment of such a final plan is not an amendment of a final plan for the purpose of division (A) of section 128.12 of the Revised Code.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.25 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.52 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.26 Election on monthly charge on telephone access lines to fund certain systems.
(A) This section applies only to a county that has a final plan for a countywide 9-1-1 system that either has not been approved in the county under section 128.08 of the Revised Code or has been approved but has not been put into operation because of a lack of funding.
(D) Money raised from a monthly charge on telephone access lines under this section shall be deposited into a special fund created in the county treasury by the board of county commissioners pursuant to section 5705.12 of the Revised Code, to be used only for the necessary operating and equipment costs of establishing and maintaining no more than one public safety answering point of a countywide 9-1-1 system pursuant to a resolution adopted under division (B) of this section. In complying with this division, any county may seek the assistance of the steering committee with regard to operating and maintaining a 9-1-1 system.
(E) Nothing in sections 128.01 to 128.34 of the Revised Code precludes a final plan adopted in accordance with those sections from being amended to provide that, by agreement included in the plan, a public safety answering point of another countywide 9-1-1 system is the public safety answering point of a countywide 9-1-1 system funded through a monthly charge imposed in accordance with this section. In that event, the county for which the public safety answering point is provided shall be deemed the subdivision operating the public safety answering point for purposes of sections 128.01 to 128.34 of the Revised Code, except that, for the purpose of division (D) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, the county shall pay only so much of the costs associated with establishing, equipping, furnishing, operating, or maintaining the public safety answering point specified in the agreement included in the final plan.
(F) Pursuant to the voter approval required by division (C) of this section, the final plan for a countywide 9-1-1 system that will be funded through a monthly charge imposed in accordance with this section, or that will be amended to include an agreement described in division (E) of this section, shall be amended by the existing 9-1-1 planning committee, and the amendment of such a final plan is not an amendment of a final plan for the purpose of division (A) of section 128.12 of the Revised Code.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.26 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.53 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.27 Billing and collection of charges.
(A) As part of its normal monthly billing process, each telephone company with customers in the area served by a 9-1-1 system shall bill and collect from those customers any charge imposed under section 128.25 or 128.26 of the Revised Code. The company may list the charge as a separate entry on each bill and may indicate on the bill that the charge is made pursuant to approval of a ballot issue by county voters. Any customer billed by a company for a charge imposed under section 128.25 or 128.26 of the Revised Code is liable to the county for the amount billed. The company shall apply any partial payment of a customer's bill first to the amount the customer owes the company. The company shall keep complete records of charges it bills and collects, and such records shall be open during business hours for inspection by the county commissioners or their agents or employees. If a company fails to bill any customer for the charge, it is liable to the county for the amount that was not billed.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.27 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.54 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
(1) The state, the state highway patrol, a subdivision, or a regional council of governments participating in a 9-1-1 system established under this chapter and any officer, agent, employee, or independent contractor of the state, the state highway patrol, or such a participating subdivision or regional council of governments is not liable in damages in a civil action for injuries, death, or loss to persons or property arising from any act or omission, except willful or wanton misconduct, in connection with developing, adopting, or approving any final plan or any agreement made under section 128.09 of the Revised Code or otherwise bringing into operation the 9-1-1 system pursuant to this chapter.
(2) The steering committee and any member of the steering committee are not liable in damages in a civil action for injuries, death, or loss to persons or property arising from any act or omission, except willful or wanton misconduct, in connection with the development or operation of a 9-1-1 system established under this chapter.
(B) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an individual who gives emergency instructions through a 9-1-1 system established under this chapter, and the principals for whom the person acts, including both employers and independent contractors, public and private, and an individual who follows emergency instructions and the principals for whom that person acts, including both employers and independent contractors, public and private, are not liable in damages in a civil action for injuries, death, or loss to persons or property arising from the issuance or following of emergency instructions, except where the issuance or following of the instructions constitutes willful or wanton misconduct.
(2) Such an entity's or its officers', directors', employees', agents', or suppliers' provision of assistance to a public utility, municipal utility, or state or local government as authorized by divisions (G)(4) and (5) of this section.
(E) No person shall knowingly use the telephone number of a 9-1-1 system established under this chapter to report an emergency if the person knows that no emergency exists.
(F) No person shall knowingly use a 9-1-1 system for a purpose other than obtaining emergency service.
(4) In the circumstance of access to a data base being given by a telephone company that is a wireline service provider to a public utility or municipal utility in handling customer calls in times of public emergency or service outages. The charge, terms, and conditions for the disclosure or use of such information for the purpose of such access to a data base shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the steering committee.
(5) In the circumstance of access to a data base given by a telephone company that is a wireline service provider to a state and local government in warning of a public emergency, as determined by the steering committee. The charge, terms, and conditions for the disclosure or use of that information for the purpose of access to a data base is subject to the jurisdiction of the steering committee.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.32 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.49 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.34 Proceedings to enforce compliance.
(A) The attorney general, upon request of the steering committee, or on the attorney general's own initiative, shall begin proceedings against a telephone company that is a wireline service provider to enforce compliance with this chapter or with the terms, conditions, requirements, or specifications of a final plan or of an agreement under section 128.09 of the Revised Code as to wireline or wireless 9-1-1.
(B) The attorney general, upon the attorney general's own initiative, or any prosecutor, upon the prosecutor's initiative, shall begin proceedings against a subdivision or a regional council of governments as to wireline or wireless 9-1-1 to enforce compliance with this chapter or with the terms, conditions, requirements, or specifications of a final plan or of an agreement under section 128.09 of the Revised Code as to wireline or wireless 9-1-1.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.34 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.50 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
There is hereby created within the department of administrative services the 9-1-1 program office, headed by an administrator in the unclassified civil service pursuant to division (A)(9) of section 124.11 of the Revised Code. The administrator shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the director of administrative services and shall report directly to the state chief information officer. The program office shall oversee administration of the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund , the wireless 9-1-1 program fund, and the next generation 9-1-1 fund.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.40 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Amended by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §605.40, eff. 9/29/2013.
Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.188, HB 472, §4, eff. 1/1/2014.
Renumbered from § 4931.60 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.42 Wireless 9-1-1 charge imposed on subscribers.
(1) On each wireless telephone number of a wireless service subscriber who has a billing address in this state. The subscriber shall pay the wireless 9-1-1 charge for each such wireless telephone number assigned to the subscriber. Each wireless service provider and each reseller shall collect the wireless 9-1-1 charge as a specific line item on each subscriber's monthly bill. The line item shall be expressly designated "State/Local Wireless-E911 Costs ($0.25/billed number)." If a provider bills a subscriber for any wireless enhanced 9-1-1 costs that the provider may incur, the charge or amount is not to appear in the same line item as the state/local line item. If the charge or amount is to appear in its own, separate line item on the bill, the charge or amount shall be expressly designated "[Name of Provider] Federal Wireless-E911 Costs."
(b) Amounts collected under division (A)(2) of this section shall be remitted pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 128.46 of the Revised Code.
The wireless 9-1-1 charges authorized under this section shall not be imposed on a subscriber of wireless lifeline service or a provider of that service.
(1) There is hereby imposed, on each retail sale of a prepaid wireless calling service occurring in this state, a wireless 9-1-1 charge of five-tenths of one per cent of the sale price.
(a) Except as provided in division (B)(4)(c) of this section, the seller of the prepaid wireless calling service shall collect the charge from the consumer at the time of each retail sale and disclose the amount of the charge to the consumer at the time of the sale by itemizing the charge on the receipt, invoice, or similar form of written documentation provided to the consumer.
(b) The seller shall comply with the reporting and remittance requirements under section 128.46 of the Revised Code.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.42 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.61 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.44 Notice of changes to wireless 9-1-1 charges.
Beginning January 1, 2014, the tax commissioner shall provide notice to all known wireless service providers, resellers, and sellers of prepaid wireless calling services of any increase or decrease in either of the wireless 9-1-1 charges imposed under section 128.42 of the Revised Code. Each notice shall be provided not less than thirty days before the effective date of the increase or decrease.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.44 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
(A) Each wireless service provider and reseller shall keep complete and accurate records of bills for wireless service, together with a record of the wireless 9-1-1 charges collected under section 128.42 of the Revised Code, and shall keep all related invoices and other pertinent documents. Each seller shall keep complete and accurate records of retail sales of prepaid wireless calling services, together with a record of the wireless 9-1-1 charges collected under section 128.42 of the Revised Code, and shall keep all related invoices and other pertinent documents.
(B) Records, invoices, and documents required to be kept under this section shall be open during business hours to the inspection of the tax commissioner. They shall be preserved for a period of four years unless the tax commissioner, in writing, consents to their destruction within that period, or by order requires that they be kept longer.
128.46 Wireless 9-1-1 charges remitted to coordinator; filing returns; subscriber liability; audit; collection.
(1) A wireless service provider or reseller, not later than the last day of each month, shall remit the full amount of all wireless 9-1-1 charges it collected under division (A) of section 128.42 of the Revised Code for the second preceding calendar month to the administrator, with the exception of charges equivalent to the amount authorized as a billing and collection fee under division (A)(2) of this section. In doing so, the provider or reseller may remit the requisite amount in any reasonable manner consistent with its existing operating or technological capabilities, such as by customer address, location associated with the wireless telephone number, or another allocation method based on comparable, relevant data. If the wireless service provider or reseller receives a partial payment for a bill from a wireless service subscriber, the wireless service provider or reseller shall apply the payment first against the amount the subscriber owes the wireless service provider or reseller and shall remit to the administrator such lesser amount, if any, as results from that invoice.
(2) A wireless service provider or reseller may retain as a billing and collection fee two per cent of the total wireless 9-1-1 charges it collects in a month and shall account to the administrator for the amount retained.
(3) The administrator shall return to, or credit against the next month's remittance of, a wireless service provider or reseller the amount of any remittances the administrator determines were erroneously submitted by the provider or reseller.
(2) The commissioner may grant one or more thirty-day extensions for making and filing returns and remitting amounts due.
(3) If a seller is required to collect prepaid wireless 9-1-1 charges in amounts that do not merit monthly returns, the commissioner may authorize the seller to make and file returns less frequently. The commissioner shall ascertain whether this authorization is warranted upon the basis of administrative costs to the state.
(4) A wireless service provider, reseller, and seller may each retain as a collection fee three per cent of the total wireless 9-1-1 charges required to be collected under section 128.42 of the Revised Code, and shall account to the tax commissioner for the amount retained.
(5) The return required under division (B)(1)(a) of this section shall be filed electronically using the Ohio business gateway, as defined in section 718.01 of the Revised Code, the Ohio telefile system, or any other electronic means prescribed by the tax commissioner. Remittance of the amount due shall be made electronically in a manner approved by the commissioner. A wireless service provider, reseller, or seller may apply to the commissioner on a form prescribed by the commissioner to be excused from either electronic requirement of this division. For good cause shown, the commissioner may excuse the provider, reseller, or seller from either or both of the requirements and may permit the provider, reseller, or seller to file returns or make remittances by nonelectronic means.
(1) Prior to January 1, 2014, each subscriber on which a wireless 9-1-1 charge is imposed under division (A) of section 128.42 of the Revised Code is liable to the state for the amount of the charge. If a wireless service provider or reseller fails to collect the charge under that division from a subscriber of prepaid wireless service, or fails to bill any other subscriber for the charge, the wireless service provider or reseller is liable to the state for the amount not collected or billed. If a wireless service provider or reseller collects charges under that division and fails to remit the money to the administrator, the wireless service provider or reseller is liable to the state for any amount collected and not remitted.
(a) Each subscriber or consumer on which a wireless 9-1-1 charge is imposed under section 128.42 of the Revised Code is liable to the state for the amount of the charge. If a wireless service provider or reseller fails to bill or collect the charge, or if a seller fails to collect the charge, the provider, reseller, or seller is liable to the state for the amount not billed or collected. If a provider, reseller, or seller fails to remit money to the tax commissioner as required under this section, the provider, reseller, or seller is liable to the state for the amount not remitted, regardless of whether the amount was collected.
(b) No provider of a prepaid wireless calling service shall be liable to the state for any wireless 9-1-1 charge imposed under division (B)(1) of section 128.42 of the Revised Code that was not collected or remitted.
(1) If the steering committee has reason to believe that a wireless service provider or reseller has failed to bill, collect, or remit the wireless 9-1-1 charge as required by divisions (A)(1) and (C)(1) of this section or has retained more than the amount authorized under division (A)(2) of this section, and after written notice to the provider or reseller, the steering committee may audit the provider or reseller for the sole purpose of making such a determination. The audit may include, but is not limited to, a sample of the provider's or reseller's billings, collections, remittances, or retentions for a representative period, and the steering committee shall make a good faith effort to reach agreement with the provider or reseller in selecting that sample.
(2) Upon written notice to the wireless service provider or reseller, the steering committee, by order after completion of the audit, may make an assessment against the provider or reseller if, pursuant to the audit, the steering committee determines that the provider or reseller has failed to bill, collect, or remit the wireless 9-1-1 charge as required by divisions (A)(1) and (C)(1) of this section or has retained more than the amount authorized under division (A)(2) of this section. The assessment shall be in the amount of any remittance that was due and unpaid on the date notice of the audit was sent by the steering committee to the provider or reseller or, as applicable, in the amount of the excess amount under division (A)(2) of this section retained by the provider or reseller as of that date.
(3) The portion of any assessment not paid within sixty days after the date of service by the steering committee of the assessment notice under division (D)(2) of this section shall bear interest from that date until paid at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code. That interest may be collected by making an assessment under division (D)(2) of this section. An assessment under this division and any interest due shall be remitted in the same manner as the wireless 9-1-1 charge imposed under division (A) of section 128.42 of the Revised Code.
(4) Unless the provider, reseller, or seller assessed files with the steering committee within sixty days after service of the notice of assessment, either personally or by certified mail, a written petition for reassessment, signed by the party assessed or that party's authorized agent having knowledge of the facts, the assessment shall become final and the amount of the assessment shall be due and payable from the party assessed to the administrator. The petition shall indicate the objections of the party assessed, but additional objections may be raised in writing if received by the administrator or the steering committee prior to the date shown on the final determination.
(5) After an assessment becomes final, if any portion of the assessment remains unpaid, including accrued interest, a certified copy of the final assessment may be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas in the county in which the place of business of the assessed party is located. If the party assessed maintains no place of business in this state, the certified copy of the final assessment may be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of Franklin county. Immediately upon the filing, the clerk shall enter a judgment for the state against the assessed party in the amount shown on the final assessment. The judgment may be filed by the clerk in a loose-leaf book entitled "special judgments for wireless 9-1-1 charges" and shall have the same effect as other judgments. The judgment shall be executed upon the request of the steering committee.
(6) An assessment under this division does not discharge a subscriber's liability to reimburse the provider or reseller for the wireless 9-1-1 charge imposed under division (A) of section 128.42 of the Revised Code. If, after the date of service of the audit notice under division (D)(1) of this section, a subscriber pays a wireless 9-1-1 charge for the period covered by the assessment, the payment shall be credited against the assessment.
(7) All money collected by the administrator under division (D) of this section shall be paid to the treasurer of state, for deposit to the credit of the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund.
(1) If the tax commissioner has reason to believe that a wireless service provider, reseller, or seller has failed to bill, collect, or remit the wireless 9-1-1 charge as required by this section and section 128.42 of the Revised Code or has retained more than the amount authorized under division (B)(4) of this section, and after written notice to the provider, reseller, or seller, the tax commissioner may audit the provider, reseller, or seller for the sole purpose of making such a determination. The audit may include, but is not limited to, a sample of the provider's, reseller's, or seller's billings, collections, remittances, or retentions for a representative period, and the tax commissioner shall make a good faith effort to reach agreement with the provider, reseller, or seller in selecting that sample.
(2) Upon written notice to the wireless service provider, reseller, or seller, the tax commissioner, after completion of the audit, may make an assessment against the provider, reseller, or seller if, pursuant to the audit, the tax commissioner determines that the provider, reseller, or seller has failed to bill, collect, or remit the wireless 9-1-1 charge as required by this section and section 128.42 of the Revised Code or has retained more than the amount authorized under division (B)(4) of this section. The assessment shall be in the amount of any remittance that was due and unpaid on the date notice of the audit was sent by the tax commissioner to the provider, reseller, or seller or, as applicable, in the amount of the excess amount under division (B)(4) of this section retained by the provider, reseller, or seller as of that date.
(3) The portion of any assessment consisting of wireless 9-1-1 charges due and not paid within sixty days after the date that the assessment was made under division (E)(2) of this section shall bear interest from that date until paid at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code. That interest may be collected by making an assessment under division (E)(2) of this section.
(4) Unless the provider, reseller, or seller assessed files with the tax commissioner within sixty days after service of the notice of assessment, either personally or by certified mail, a written petition for reassessment, signed by the party assessed or that party's authorized agent having knowledge of the facts, the assessment shall become final and the amount of the assessment shall be due and payable from the party assessed to the treasurer of state, for deposit to the next generation 9-1-1 fund, which is created under section 128.54 of the Revised Code. The petition shall indicate the objections of the party assessed, but additional objections may be raised in writing if received by the commissioner prior to the date shown on the final determination. If the petition has been properly filed, the commissioner shall proceed under section 5703.60 of the Revised Code.
(5) After an assessment becomes final, if any portion of the assessment remains unpaid, including accrued interest, a certified copy of the final assessment may be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas in the county in which the business of the assessed party is conducted. If the party assessed maintains no place of business in this state, the certified copy of the final assessment may be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of Franklin county. Immediately upon the filing, the clerk shall enter a judgment for the state against the assessed party in the amount shown on the final assessment. The judgment may be filed by the clerk in a loose-leaf book entitled "special judgments for wireless 9-1-1 charges" and shall have the same effect as other judgments. The judgment shall be executed upon the request of the tax commissioner.
(6) If the commissioner determines that the commissioner erroneously has refunded a wireless 9-1-1 charge to any person, the commissioner may make an assessment against that person for recovery of the erroneously refunded charge.
(7) An assessment under division (E) of this section does not discharge a subscriber's or consumer's liability to reimburse the provider, reseller, or seller for a wireless 9-1-1 charge. If, after the date of service of the audit notice under division (E)(1) of this section, a subscriber or consumer pays a wireless 9-1-1 charge for the period covered by the assessment, the payment shall be credited against the assessment.
Amended by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 5, §1, eff. 3/23/2015, applicable to municipal taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/2016.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.46 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.62 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.461 Interest on remitted charges.
Beginning January 1, 2014, any wireless 9-1-1 charge required to be remitted under section 128.46 of the Revised Code shall be subject to interest as prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code, calculated from the date the wireless 9-1-1 charge was due under section 128.46 of the Revised Code to the date the wireless 9-1-1 charge is remitted or the date of assessment, whichever occurs first.
(3) When the provider, reseller, or seller and the commissioner waive in writing the time limitation.
(B) No assessment shall be made or issued against a wireless service provider, reseller, or seller for any wireless 9-1-1 charge imposed by or pursuant to section 128.42 of the Revised Code for any period during which there was in full force and effect a rule of the tax commissioner under or by virtue of which the collection or payment of any such wireless 9-1-1 charge was not required. This division does not bar an assessment when the tax commissioner has substantial evidence of amounts of wireless 9-1-1 charges collected by a provider, reseller, or seller from subscribers or consumers, which were not returned to the state.
(A) A wireless service provider, reseller, seller, wireless service subscriber, or consumer of a prepaid wireless calling service may apply to the tax commissioner for a refund of wireless 9-1-1 charges described in division (B) of this section. The application shall be made on the form prescribed by the tax commissioner. The application shall be made not later than four years after the date of the illegal or erroneous payment of the wireless 9-1-1 charge by the subscriber or consumer, unless the wireless service provider, reseller, or seller waives the time limitation under division (A)(3) of section 128.462 of the Revised Code. If the time limitation is waived, the refund application period shall be extended for the same period as the waiver.
(1) If a wireless service provider, reseller, or seller refunds to a subscriber or consumer the full amount of wireless 9-1-1 charges that the subscriber or consumer paid illegally or erroneously, and if the provider, reseller, or seller remitted that amount under section 128.46 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall refund that amount to the provider, reseller, or seller.
(2) If a wireless service provider, reseller, or seller has illegally or erroneously billed a subscriber or charged a consumer for a wireless 9-1-1 charge, and if the provider, reseller, or seller has not collected the charge but has remitted that amount under section 128.46 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall refund that amount to the provider, reseller, or seller.
(a) The tax commissioner has not refunded the wireless 9-1-1 charges to the provider, reseller, or seller.
(b) The provider, reseller, or seller has not refunded the wireless 9-1-1 charges to the subscriber or consumer.
(2) The tax commissioner may require the subscriber or consumer to obtain from the provider, reseller, or seller a written statement confirming that the provider, reseller, or seller has not refunded the wireless 9-1-1 charges to the subscriber or consumer and that the provider, reseller, or seller has not filed an application for a refund under this section. The tax commissioner may also require the provider, reseller, or seller to provide this statement.
(D) On the filing of an application for a refund under this section, the tax commissioner shall determine the amount of refund to which the applicant is entitled. If the amount is not less than that claimed, the commissioner shall certify the determined amount to the director of budget and management and the treasurer of state for payment from the tax refund fund created under section 5703.052 of the Revised Code. If the amount is less than that claimed, the commissioner shall proceed in accordance with section 5703.70 of the Revised Code.
(E) Refunds granted under this section shall include interest as provided by section 5739.132 of the Revised Code.
128.52 Sales subject to taxes on retail sales.
(A) Beginning on July 1, 2013, each seller of a prepaid wireless calling service required to collect prepaid wireless 9-1-1 charges under division (B) of section 128.42 of the Revised Code shall also be subject to the provisions of Chapter 5739. of the Revised Code regarding the excise tax on retail sales levied under section 5739.02 of the Revised Code, as those provisions apply to audits, assessments, appeals, enforcement, liability, and penalties.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.52 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.53 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.63 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.54 Funds established for receipt, distribution, and accounting for amounts received from Wireless 9-1-1 charges.
(d) The next generation 9-1-1 fund.
(a) Ninety-seven per cent to the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund. All interest earned on the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund shall be credited to the fund.
(c) Two per cent to the 9-1-1 program fund.
(3) The tax commissioner shall use the wireless 9-1-1 administrative fund to defray the costs incurred in carrying out this chapter.
(4) The steering committee shall use the 9-1-1 program fund to defray the costs incurred by the steering committee in carrying out this chapter.
(5) Annually, the tax commissioner , after paying administrative costs under division (A)(3) of this section, shall transfer any excess remaining in the wireless 9-1-1 administrative fund to the next generation 9-1-1 fund, created under this section.
(B) At the direction of the steering committee, the tax commissioner shall transfer the funds remaining in the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund to the credit of the next generation 9-1-1 fund. All interest earned on the next generation 9-1-1 fund shall be credited to the fund.
(C) From the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund, the director of budget and management shall, as funds are available, transfer to the tax refund fund, created under section 5703.052 of the Revised Code, amounts equal to the refunds certified by the tax commissioner under division (D) of section 128.47 of the Revised Code.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.54 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.188, HB 472, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.55 Disbursement of government assistance fund monies.
(1) The tax commissioner, not later than the last day of each month, shall disburse moneys from the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund, plus any accrued interest on the fund, to each county treasurer.
(a) If there are sufficient funds in the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund, each county treasurer shall receive the same amount distributed to that county by the public utilities commission in the corresponding calendar month in 2013.
(b) If the funds available are insufficient to make the distributions as provided in division (A)(1)(a) of this section, each county's share shall be reduced in proportion to the amounts received in the corresponding calendar month in 2013, until the total amount to be distributed to the counties is equivalent to the amount available in the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund. Any shortfall in distributions resulting from insufficient funds from a previous month shall be remedied in the following month.
(2) The tax commissioner shall disburse moneys from the next generation 9-1-1 fund in accordance with the guidelines established under section 128.022 of the Revised Code.
(B) Immediately upon receipt by a county treasurer of a disbursement under division (A) of this section, the county shall disburse, in accordance with the allocation formula set forth in the final plan, the amount the county so received to any other subdivisions in the county and any regional councils of governments in the county that pay the costs of a public safety answering point providing wireless enhanced 9-1-1 under the plan.
(C) Nothing in this chapter affects the authority of a subdivision operating or served by a public safety answering point of a 9-1-1 system or a regional council of governments operating a public safety answering point of a 9-1-1 system to use, as provided in the final plan for the system or in an agreement under section 128.09 of the Revised Code, any other authorized revenue of the subdivision or the regional council of governments for the purposes of providing basic or enhanced 9-1-1.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.55 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.64 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.57 County systems receiving disbursements to provide wireless 9-1-1 service.
(1) Any costs of designing, upgrading, purchasing, leasing, programming, installing, testing, or maintaining the necessary data, hardware, software, and trunking required for the public safety answering point or points of the 9-1-1 system to provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1, which costs are incurred before or on or after May 6, 2005, and consist of such additional costs of the 9-1-1 system over and above any costs incurred to provide wireline 9-1-1 or to otherwise provide wireless enhanced 9-1-1. Annually, up to twenty-five thousand dollars of the disbursements received on or after January 1, 2009, may be applied to data, hardware, and software that automatically alerts personnel receiving a 9-1-1 call that a person at the subscriber's address or telephone number may have a mental or physical disability, of which that personnel shall inform the appropriate emergency service provider. On or after the provision of technical and operational standards pursuant to section 128.021 of the Revised Code, a regional council of governments operating a public safety answering point or a subdivision shall consider the standards before incurring any costs described in this division.
(B) A subdivision or a regional council of governments that certifies to the steering committee that it has paid the costs described in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section and is providing countywide wireless enhanced 9-1-1 may use disbursements received under section 128.55 of the Revised Code to pay any of its personnel costs of one or more public safety answering points providing countywide wireless enhanced 9-1-1.
(C) After receiving its July 2013 disbursement under division (A) of section 128.55 of the Revised Code as that division existed prior to the amendments to that division by H. B. 64 of the 131st general assembly, a regional council of governments operating a public safety answering point or a subdivision may use any remaining balance of disbursements it received under that division, as it existed prior to the amendments to it by H. B. 64 of the 131st general assembly, to pay any of its costs of providing countywide wireless 9-1-1, including the personnel costs of one or more public safety answering points providing that service.
(D) The costs described in divisions (A), (B), (C), and (E) of this section may include any such costs payable pursuant to an agreement under division (J) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code.
(1) No disbursement to a countywide 9-1-1 system for costs of a public safety answering point shall be made from the wireless 9-1-1 government assistance fund or the next generation 9-1-1 fund unless the public safety answering point meets the standards set by rule of the steering committee under section 128.021 of the Revised Code.
(2) The steering committee shall monitor compliance with the standards and shall notify the tax commissioner to suspend disbursements to a countywide 9-1-1 system that fails to meet the standards. Upon receipt of this notification, the commissioner shall suspend disbursements until the commissioner is notified of compliance with the standards.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.57 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.65 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.571 Limitation on use of RC 128.57 payments.
(B) If within a county there is a municipal corporation with a population of over one hundred seventy-five thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census, that county may use disbursements for one public safety answering point in addition to the number of public safety answering points allowed under division (A)(2) of this section.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.571 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.651 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.60 Service providers to supply information; confidentiality.
(1) A telephone company, the state highway patrol as described in division (J) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, and each subdivision or regional council of governments operating one or more public safety answering points for a countywide system providing wireless 9-1-1, shall provide the steering committee and the tax commissioner with such information as the steering committee and tax commissioner request for the purposes of carrying out their duties under this chapter, including, but not limited to, duties regarding the collection of the wireless 9-1-1 charges imposed under section 128.42 of the Revised Code.
(2) A wireless service provider shall provide an official, employee, agent, or representative of a subdivision or regional council of governments operating a public safety answering point, or of the state highway patrol as described in division (J) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, with such technical, service, and location information as the official, employee, agent, or representative requests for the purpose of providing wireless 9-1-1.
(3) A subdivision or regional council of governments operating one or more public safety answering points of a 9-1-1 system, and a telephone company, shall provide to the steering committee such information as the steering committee requires for the purpose of carrying out its duties under Chapter 128. of the Revised Code.
(1) Any information provided under division (A) of this section that consists of trade secrets as defined in section 1333.61 of the Revised Code or of information regarding the customers, revenues, expenses, or network information of a telephone company shall be confidential and does not constitute a public record for the purpose of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(2) The steering committee, tax commissioner, and any official, employee, agent, or representative of the steering committee, of the tax commissioner, of the state highway patrol as described in division (J) of section 128.03 of the Revised Code, or of a subdivision or regional council of governments operating a public safety answering point, while acting or claiming to act in the capacity of the steering committee or tax commissioner or such official, employee, agent, or representative, shall not disclose any information provided under division (A) of this section regarding a telephone company's customers, revenues, expenses, or network information. Nothing in division (B)(2) of this section precludes any such information from being aggregated and included in any report of the steering committee, tax commissioner, or any official, employee, agent, or representative of the steering committee or tax commissioner, provided the aggregated information does not identify the number of any particular company's customers or the amount of its revenues or expenses or identify a particular company as to any network information.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.60 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.66 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
128.63 Adoption of rules; charge prescribed by general assembly.
(A) The tax commissioner may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to carry out this chapter, including rules prescribing the necessary accounting for the collection fee under division (B)(4) of section 128.46 of the Revised Code.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.63 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.67 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.
(A) Whoever violates division (E) of section 128.32 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(B) Whoever violates division (F) or (G) of section 128.32 or division (B)(2) of section 128.60 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on a first offense and a felony of the fifth degree on each subsequent offense.
(C) If a wireless service provider, reseller, or seller violates division (B)(1)(a) of section 128.46 of the Revised Code, and does not comply with any extensions granted under division (B)(2) of that section, the tax commissioner may impose a late-filing penalty of not more than the greater of fifty dollars or five per cent of the amount required to be remitted as described in division (B)(1)(b) of that section.
(D) If a wireless service provider, reseller, or seller fails to comply with division (B)(1)(b) of section 128.46 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner may impose a late-payment penalty of not more than the greater of fifty dollars or five per cent of the wireless 9-1-1 charge required to be remitted for the reporting period minus any partial remittance made on or before the due date, including any extensions granted under division (B)(2) of section 128.46 of the Revised Code.
(E) The tax commissioner may impose an assessment penalty of not more than the greater of one hundred dollars or thirty-five per cent of the wireless 9-1-1 charges due after the tax commissioner notifies the person of an audit, an examination, a delinquency, assessment, or other notice that additional wireless 9-1-1 charges are due.
(G) Each penalty described in divisions (C) to (F) of this section is in addition to any other penalty described in those divisions. The tax commissioner may abate all or any portion of any penalty described in those divisions.
Renumbered and amended from § 5507.99 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Renumbered from § 4931.99 and amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.166, HB 360, §1, eff. 12/20/2012.

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