A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT expanding the Purposes for which counties may use money from the emergency telephone system fund.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 62A‑8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 62A‑8.  Payments from Fund.
(a)	Money from the Emergency Telephone System Fund shall be used only to pay for:
(1)	The lease, purchase, or maintenance of communications equipment associated with receiving, processing, or dispatching emergency calls for law enforcement, fire, medical, rescue, or other public safety services; addressing; and nonrecurring costs of establishing a 911 system.
(2)	The rates associated with the service supplier's 911 service and other service supplier recurring charges.
(b)	The following expenses are not eligible for payment from the Fund:  the lease or purchase of real estate, cosmetic remodeling of emergency dispatch centers, hiring, training, and compensating dispatchers, and the purchase of mobile communications vehicles, ambulances, fire engines, or other emergency vehicles.
(c)	A local government may contract with a service supplier for any term negotiated by the service supplier and the local government and may make payments from the Emergency Telephone System Fund to provide any payments required by the contract."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.