§ 3.30.010. 911 customer surcharge.

A.

A surcharge in an amount to be set by resolution of the city council not to exceed the maximum allowed by A.S. 29.35.131, shall be assessed per month per local exchange access line and for each wireless telephone number that is billed or sold to a customer with an address within the NANA Region and shall be collected to fund the enhanced 911 system provided by the city of Kotzebue to the NANA Region. This surcharge shall be reviewed annually to determine whether the level of surcharge is adequate, excessive or insufficient to meet the anticipated enhanced 911 system needs. A wireline telephone or wireless telephone customer may not be subject to more than one surcharge per local access line or wireless telephone number. A customer that has more than one hundred local exchange access lines from a wireline telephone company in the NANA Region is liable for the surcharge only on one hundred local exchange access lines.

B.

Wireline telephone companies and wireless telephone companies providing service in the NANA Region shall bill and collect the surcharge from their wireline and wireless telephone customers. Funds collected shall be accounted separately from other utility revenues.

C.

The wireline and wireless telephone companies shall remit that portion of the surcharge receipts allocable to public safety answering point costs no later than sixty days after the end of the month in which the amount was collected. From each remittance made in a timely manner, each wireline and wireless telephone company is entitled to deduct the greater of one percent of the amount collected or a total of one hundred fifty dollars per month as the cost of administration for collecting the surcharge. The wireline and wireless telephone companies shall annually furnish to the city a complete list of amounts due for nonpayment of surcharges, together with the names and addresses of those customers who carry a balance that can be determined by the company to be for nonpayment of the surcharge.

D.

The city may, at its own expense, require an annual audit of a wireline or wireless telephone company's books and records concerning billing, collection and remittance of the surcharge.

E.

A wireless or wireline telephone customer is liable for payment of the surcharge in the amounts billed by the telephone company until the amounts have been paid to the wireline or wireless telephone company.

(Ord. 06-6 § 2 (part), 2006).