§ 105. Collection of fee.

A.

Collection. The emergency telephone fee shall be collected monthly by each telephone company at the same time charges for telephone services are collected and in accordance with the regular billing practices of the company. In the event any service user tenders a payment in an amount insufficient to satisfy all charges, tariffs, fees and taxes, the amount tendered shall be first credited to the emergency telephone fee.

B.

Remittance. Unless required by state law to remit otherwise, all fees collected by a telephone company pursuant to this chapter shall be remitted to the City, together with any accumulated interest, no later than thirty (30) days after the end of the month in which the fees were collected. Such remittance shall be submitted with a return on a form acceptable to the City.

C.

Administrative Fee. For every remittance of the collected fee to City on or before the date same becomes due, the local exchange telephone company and the VoIP carrier required to remit the fee shall be entitled to deduct and retain for administrative costs, two percent (2%) of the emergency telephone fee. No administrative fee shall be deducted and retained by the local exchange telephone company and the VoIP carrier for collected fees which are not remitted to the City by the due date as set forth in Subsection B, above.

D.

Records.

1.

The telephone company shall maintain a complete and accurate set of records on the amount of all fees collected. Such records shall be maintained for a period of three (3) years from the end of any fiscal year in which such fees were collected unless a shorter holding period is authorized by state law. The City may, at its own expense, conduct an annual audit of such records.

2.

All telephone companies having customers within the City shall provide an annual census of customers to the City no later than sixty (60) days after the first day of each calendar year unless such companies are required by state law to provide such annual census to another entity.

(Ord. No. 22025, § 3, 3-5-2009)