Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies
(a) Each telephone and telecommunications company providing local telephone service and each provider of commercial mobile radio service, as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Part 20, ยง 20.3, shall assess against each subscriber a fee established by the Department of Public Utility Control. The annual fee shall be determined at a proceeding, conducted by the Department of Public Utility Control, on or before June 1st of each year, based upon an annual operating budget developed by the Commissioner of Public Safety on or before April 1st of each year.
(b) Any Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund surplus shall be carried forward to successive fiscal years and used for the sole purpose of administering the Enhanced 9-1-1 Program.
(c) For the purpose of assessment of customer accounts with multiple lines, the monthly 9-1-1 assessment shall be determined in accordance with the progressive wire line inclusion schedule as follows:
(1) If the number of access wire lines equals one, then the assessment factor shall be 1.0;
(2) If the number of access wire lines equals two, then the assessment factor shall be .75;
(3) If the number of access wire lines equals three, then the assessment factor shall be .67;
(4) If the number of access wire lines equals four or five, then the assessment factor shall be .6;
(5) If the number of access wire lines is six, seven, eight, nine or ten, then the assessment factor shall be .5;
(6) If the number of access wire lines is equal to or greater than eleven but less than 26, then the assessment factor shall be .4;
(7) If the number of access wire lines is equal to or greater than 26, but less than 51, then the assessment factor shall be .33;
(8) If the number of access wire lines is equal to or greater than 51, but less than 100, then the assessment factor shall be .25; and
(9) If the number of access wire lines is equal to or greater than 100, then the assessment factor shall be .2.
(d) All access line assessments collected each month by telephone or telecommunications companies providing local telephone service and providers of commercial mobile radio service shall be remitted to the Office of the State Treasurer for deposit into the Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund no later than the fifteenth day of each month.
(e) No later than February 1st of each year, each telephone or telecommunications company providing local telephone service and each provider of commercial mobile radio service shall submit to the Department of Public Safety, Office of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications, the number of Connecticut subscribers on record as of January 1st of each year.
(f) The monthly subscriber fee shall not exceed fifty cents per month.
(g) Prior to April 1st of each year, the Department of Public Safety, Office of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications, shall calculate the amount of funding required to implement the provisions of Sections 28-24-1 to 28-24-14, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies. This amount shall be adjusted annually to reflect the projected amount needed to implement the provisions of Sections 28-24-1 to 28-24-14, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(h) An annual operating budget for the Office of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications shall be prepared, detailing projected expenditures for the administration of the Enhanced 9-1-1 Program. This budget shall be submitted to the Department of Public Utility Control as part of the proceeding to determine the monthly fee to be assessed against each subscriber of local telephone service and each subscriber of commercial mobile radio service.
(Adopted effective January 24, 1997; Amended March 3, 2006)