Pennsylvania Code
Title 4 - ADMINISTRATION
Part V - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Chapter 120b - PUBLIC SAFETY EMERGENCY TELEPHONE PROGRAM
Section 120b.106 - Eligible costs
Universal Citation: 4 PA Code ยง 120b.106
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) The contribution rate may be used for recurring and nonrecurring costs associated with implementing, expanding, upgrading and operating a 911 emergency communications system.
(b) The costs may include the following items:
(1)
Nonrecurring costs.
(i)
Telephone terminal equipment or switching equipment.
(ii) Trunk line service
installation.
(iii) Network
changes.
(iv) Building of data base
including individual number or location identification, or both, and mapping of
the 911 service area.
(v) Microwave
equipment.
(vi) Consultant fees
associated with the development of county 911 plans.
(vii) Fixed radio equipment that is an
integral part of a 911 system.
(viii) Purchase and installation costs of
emergency power generating equipment.
(ix) Telephone company costs associated with
the development of the contribution rate billing system.
(x) Moving costs for consolidation of
answering centers.
(xi) Capital
costs for systems in-place, installed and functional on September 7,
1990.
(xii) Stenographer recording
costs for the required public meeting.
(xiii) Mobile communications
equipment.
(xiv) Development and
maintenance of a master street address guide.
(xv) Erection of street signs on State and
local highways.
(xvi) Other
nonrecurring costs as deemed eligible by the Agency.
(2)
Recurring costs.
(i) Telephone company charges.
(ii) Telephone company administrative costs
for billing and collection of the contribution rate to a maximum of 2% of the
contribution rate moneys collected.
(iii) County costs for the administration of
the contribution rate to a maximum of 1% of the gross receipts
collected.
(iv) Communication
equipment lease charges excluding mobile communications equipment.
(v) Repairs and maintenance cost for 911
related equipment.
(vi) Data base
maintenance costs.
(vii) Personnel
salary, training and benefit costs directly related to the provision of 911
services subject to a maximum of 70% of the contribution rate
revenue.
(viii) Audit
costs.
(ix) Carryover
costs.
(x) Public education
costs.
(c) The following costs are deemed to be ineligible costs:
(1) Costs necessary to house a 911
system.
(2) Purchase of real
estate.
(3) Cosmetic
remodeling.
(4) Central office
upgrading.
(5) Recruitment of
dispatchers, call takers or telecommunications officers or operators.
(6) Ambulances, fire engines, emergency
equipment or vehicles of any kind.
(7) Utilities including electric, gas, oil,
water, sewer and solid waste.
(8)
Telephone costs not directly associated with the provision of 911
services.
(9) Taxes or other
expenses deemed ineligible by the Agency.
(d) An applicant is encouraged to inquire of the Agency as to expenses which may not be eligible prior to submission of a plan.
The provisions of this §120b.106 amended under the Emergency Management Service Code, 35 Pa.C.S. § 7313.
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