W. Va. Code R. § 150-25-6

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 150-25-6 - Calculation of Fee Revenue Disbursement

6.1. The Commission's Administration Division will, using the methodology and data required by W. Va. Code § 24-6-6b, calculate the disbursement ratios for the revenue generated by the WE911 Fee, Public Safety Fee and Wireless Tower Fee, as provided below.

6.1.1. Nineteen cents ($0.19) of the twenty-nine cents ($0.29) Public Safety Fee collected per subscriber and received by the Commission each month will be designated for the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

6.1.2. Each month, eight cents ($0.08), or the total amount of the Wireless Tower Fee, collected per subscriber and received by the Commission will be deposited in a fund entitled "Wireless Tower Access Assistance Fund."

6.1.3. Each month, ten cents ($0.10) of the remaining twenty-nine cent ($0.29) Public Safety Fee collected per subscriber and received by the Commission will be designated for the West Virginia State Police.

6.1.4. Disbursement ratios for the WE911 Fee revenue pursuant to 6.4 will be recalculated by the Commission's Administration Division within thirty calendar days of the availability of updated decennial county population census data. Such recalculated disbursement ratios will be effective on July 1 immediately following such recalculation.

6.2. Counties with an Enhanced Emergency Telephone System ordinance enacted will receive only that county's portion of the monthly WE911 Fee revenues being disbursed on a pro rata basis, as set forth in Rules 6.3., 6.4 and 6.5 herein.

6.3. When two or more counties organize pursuant to law into one county in order to provide government services and upon written notice to the Commission verifying such consolidation, the consolidated county will receive one percent (1) of the monthly net WE911 Fee revenues received by the Commission for itself and for each county merged into the consolidated county, in addition to other amounts permitted by this Rule.

6.4. Each county will receive eight and one-half tenths of one percent (0.0085) of the remainder of the monthly WE911 Fee revenues received by the Commission.

6.5. From any WE911 Fee moneys remaining, each county will receive a pro rata portion, based on that county's percentage of the state's total population, as determined in the most recent decennial census.

W. Va. Code R. § 150-25-6