[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Shenandoah County
6-24-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-6.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance superseded former Ch. 83, Emergency
Telephone Service, adopted 9-23-1997 by Ord. No. 97-7.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
A telephone network capability that enables the automatic display
of information defining the geographical location of the telephone used to
place a wireline 9-1-1 call.
A telephone network capability that enables the automatic display
of the telephone number used to place a wireline 9-1-1 call.
A service consisting of telephone network features and PSAPs provided
for users of telephone systems enabling such users to reach a PSAP by dialing
the digits "9-1-1". Such service automatically directs 9-1-1 emergency telephone
calls to the appropriate PSAPs by selective routing based on the geographical
location from which the emergency call originated and provides
the capability for ANI and ALI features.
A map showing areas of the County by numbered grids which enables
emergency services to more quickly identify location of streets and buildings.
Numbers assigned to residences and buildings, both now and in the
future, which enables emergency services to more quickly identify location
of buildings on any given street.
A functional division of a public agency which provides fire-fighting,
police, medical or other emergency services, or a private entity which provides
such services on a voluntary basis.
A communications facility equipped and staffed on a twenty-four-hour-basis
to receive and process 9-1-1 calls.
Highways, streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys, or
any way which provides ingress and egress by the public.
A.Â
There shall be established in Shenandoah County an enhanced
911 (E-911) emergency telephone service, as heretofore defined.
B.Â
There is hereby imposed and levied upon every consumer
of telephone service or services provided by any corporation coming within
the provision of Chapter 26 of Title 58.1 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as
amended, a special tax in the amount of $2.05 per month per access line. This
tax shall be paid by the consumer to the seller of local telephone service
or services. Federal, state and local governments, including their boards,
commissions, authorities, departments and/or agencies, shall be exempt from
said tax.
C.Â
The revenue from the tax herein imposed and levied shall
be used solely for the initial capital, installation and maintenance costs
of the E-911 service, including any cost of grid mapping, street naming and
house numbering as deemed necessary for the effective operation of the E-911
service.
D.Â
Each seller of telephone services shall collect said
special tax, imposed and levied herein, which shall be applicable to charges
first appearing on bills rendered for service(s) provided on and after June
1, 1991, and for each calendar month thereafter.
E.Â
Each seller of telephone service(s) shall, not later
than July 31, 1991, and each calendar month thereafter, remit to the County
Treasurer the amount of special tax hereby levied and collected, except that
the seller may deduct from said special tax collected an amount not to exceed
3% of said amount collected to compensate said seller for his accounting and
remitting cost. The seller shall include, with the monthly tax remittal to
the County Treasurer, a report of the special tax levied, the amount collected,
the amount deducted (not to exceed 3% of the amount collected), and the name
and address of any consumer who refused to pay the tax.
F.Â
The County Treasurer shall be charged with the power
and the duty of collecting the special taxes levied and imposed hereunder
and shall cause the same to be paid into the general treasury of the County.
Whenever said special tax is changed, the County Treasurer shall notify the
seller of telephone service(s) by certified mail 120 days in advance of the
date that the tax is to be changed.
G.Â
Nothing herein, stated or implied, shall prevent the
Board of Supervisors from advancing funds from the general fund account toward
the cost of the E-911 service in anticipation of revenue to be generated by
this special tax imposed and levied herein, nor from reimbursing the general
fund from the special tax revenue for such funds so advanced.
H.Â
It is the intent, pursuant to § 58.1-3813.1
of the Code of Virginia of 1950, as amended, that amounts collected from the
tax shall be used solely to pay for reasonable, direct recurring and nonrecurring
capital costs, and operating expenses incurred by public safety answering
point in designing, upgrading, leasing, purchasing, programming, installing,
testing, administering, delivering, or maintaining all necessary data, hardware
and software required to receive and process emergency telephone calls through
an E-911 service, including salaries and fringe benefits of dispatchers and
direct call takers in receiving and dispatching emergency telephone calls,
and the salary and fringe benefits of the public safety answering point director
or coordinator so long as such person has no other duties other than the responsibility
for the public safety answering point.
A.Â
If deemed necessary, a grid map shall be prepared for
the County which shall show streets in the unincorporated areas of the County,
as defined herein, and shall, upon adoption by the Board of Supervisors, be
the Official Map of Shenandoah County.
B.Â
All street names within the unincorporated areas of the
County shall be approved by the Board of Supervisors. Duplicate names shall
not be given to existing or proposed streets.
C.Â
In assigning names to existing streets, the Board shall
consider historical, social and economic aspects as may be significant to
the names assigned thereof.
D.Â
Street name signs shall be erected at strategic intersections
of existing streets. Signs shall be of a design approved by the Board of Supervisors
after seeking advice of the Virginia Department of Transportation.
E.Â
New streets approved on behalf of developers shall have
street name signs erected at the developer's expense and as approved by the
Board of Supervisors.
F.Â
Following adoption of the Official Map, plats prepared
of land surveys thereafter shall show both the street name assigned by the
Board of Supervisors as well as route numbers assigned by the Department of
Transportation.
G.Â
Houses and certain other buildings located on streets
shall be numbered as hereafter determined by the Board of Supervisors.
H.Â
The County Administrator or his designee shall promulgate
rules and regulations as necessary to assign the proper numbers for houses
and certain other buildings and shall keep records and a map showing such
numbers.
I.Â
Each property owner shall display, on his house, mailbox
or at such other location that is readily visible from the street, the number
that has been assigned to the particular house or building. The number shall
be a minimum of four inches in height, unless otherwise determined by the
Board of Supervisors.
J.Â
Each mobile home park shall have a logical sequential
system of numbering lots as approved by the County. Such numbers shall be
displayed on a permanent marker placed on the mobile home site fronting the
street, or on the accessway to the site. Such numbers shall be visible from
the street or accessway.
K.Â
Incorporated towns within Shenandoah County shall have
the option of continuing with their present street names and house numbering
system, or of being renamed and numbered to more fully conform with their
contiguous nonincorporated areas.
Any person, firm or company who fails, refuses or neglects to comply
with or interferes with any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a
Class 4 misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine
or not more than $250. Such conviction and fine shall not relieve such person,
firm or company from correcting the violation or interference. Each failure,
refusal, neglect or violation and each day's continuance thereof will constitute
a separate offense.
