34A.6 - REFERENDUM ON E911 IN PROPOSED SERVICE AREA.
34A.6 REFERENDUM ON E911 IN PROPOSED SERVICE AREA.
1. Before a joint E911 service board may request imposition of
the surcharge by the program manager, the board shall submit the
following question to voters, as provided in subsection 2, in the
proposed E911 service area, and the question shall receive a
favorable vote from a simple majority of persons submitting valid
ballots on the following question within the proposed E911 service
area:
"Shall the following public YES ..
measure be adopted? NO ..
Enhanced 911 emergency telephone service shall be funded, in whole
or in part, by a monthly surcharge of (an amount determined by the
local joint E911 service board of up to one dollar) on each telephone
access line collected as part of each telephone subscriber's monthly
phone bill if provided within (description of the proposed E911
service area)."
2. The referendum required as a condition of the surcharge
imposition in subsection 1 shall be conducted using the following
electoral mechanism:
a. At the request of the joint E911 service board a county
commissioner of elections shall include the question on the next
eligible general election ballot in each electoral precinct to be
served, in whole or in part, by the proposed E911 service area,
provided the request is timely submitted to permit inclusion.
b. The question may be included in the next election in which
all of the voters in the proposed E911 service area will be eligible
to vote on the same day.
c. The county commissioner of elections shall report the
results to the joint E911 service board.
d. The joint E911 service board shall compile the results if
subscribers from more than one county are included within the
proposed service area. The joint E911 service board shall announce
whether a simple majority of the compiled votes reported by the
commissioner approved the referendum question.
3. The secretary of state, in consultation with the
administrator, shall adopt rules for the conduct of joint E911
service referendums as required by and consistent with subsections 1
and 2. Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1177, § 6
C89, § 477B.6
89 Acts, ch 168, § 3; 90 Acts, ch 1144, §1; 91 Acts, ch 129, §27,
28; 92 Acts, ch 1139, § 35
C93, § 34A.6
98 Acts, ch 1101, § 7, 16; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §449; 2008 Acts, ch
1032, §144
Referred to in §34A.6A, 34A.7, 34A.7A