65.7623 Commercial Mobile Radio Service Emergency Telecommunications Board of Kentucky.

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Page 1 of 2 65.7623 Commercial Mobile Radio Service Emergency Telecommunications Board of Kentucky. (1) There is hereby created the Commercial Mobile Radio Service Emergency Telecommunications Board of Kentucky, the "CMRS Board," consisting of ten (10) members, appointed by the Governor as follows: two (2) members shall be employed by or representative of the interest of CMRS providers, of which, one (1) shall be a representative of a Tier III CMRS provider; one (1) member shall be a mayor of a city of the first or second class or urban-county government or his or her designee containing a public safety answering point; one (1) member shall be appointed from a list of local exchange landline telephone companies' representatives submitted by the Kentucky Telephone Association; one (1) member shall be a director of a certified public safety answering point operated by a local governmental entity or a consolidated group of local governmental entities appointed from lists of candidates submitted to the Governor by the Kentucky Firefighters Association, the State Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Kentucky Ambulance Providers Association; two (2) members shall be appointed from lists of candidates submitted to the Governor by the Kentucky Emergency Number Association and the Association of Public Communications Officials; and one (1) member shall be a director of a certified public safety answering point operated by a local government entity or a consolidated group of local governmental entities. The commissioner of the Department of Kentucky State Police, or the commissioner's designee, and the CMRS emergency telecommunications administrator also shall be members of the board. Any vacancy on the board shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. (2) The commissioner and administrator shall serve by virtue of their office. The other members shall be appointed no later than August 15, 1998, for a term of four (4) years and until their successors are appointed and qualified, except that of the first appointments, one (1) shall be for a term of one (1) year, one (1) shall be for a term of two (2) years, one (1) for a term of three (3) years, and two (2) shall be for a term of four (4) years. Any member missing three (3) consecutive meetings may be removed by a majority vote of the remaining voting members. (3) In addition to the administrator, the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security shall provide staff services and carry out administrative duties and functions as directed by the board. The board shall be attached to the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for administrative purposes only and shall operate as an independent entity within state government. (4) The board members shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed in accordance with KRS 45.101 for expenses incurred in connection with their official duties as members of the board. (5) All administrative costs and expenses incurred in the operation of the board, including payments under subsection (4) of this section, shall be paid from that portion of the CMRS fund that is authorized under KRS 65.7631 to be used by the board for administrative purposes. Effective: June 26, 2007 Page 2 of 2 History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 140, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 193, sec. 13, effective July 12, 2006; and ch. 219, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 93, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 506, sec. 18, effective July 14, 2000; and ch. 536, sec. 18, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 535, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 193, sec. 14, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies, subagencies, and officers whose names have been changed in 2006 legislation confirming the reorganization of the executive branch. Such a correction has been made in this section.