§ 36-8-16.7-38 — PSAP use of distributions; annual report to board; audits

Indiana § 36-8-16.7-38

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 36: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Art. 8: PUBLIC SAFETY
• Ch. 16.7: Statewide 911 Services

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(a) A PSAP may use a distribution from a
county under this chapter only for the following:
(1) The lease, purchase, or maintenance of communications
service equipment.
(2) Necessary system hardware and software and data base
equipment.
(3) Personnel expenses, including wages, benefits, training, and
continuing education, only to the extent reasonable and necessary
for the provision and maintenance of:
(A) the statewide 911 system; or
(B) a wireline enhanced emergency telephone system funded
under IC 36-8-16 (before its repeal on July 1, 2012).
(4) Operational costs, including costs associated with:
(A) utilities;
(B) maintenance;
(C) equipment designed to provide backup power or system
redundancy, including generators; and
(D) call logging equipment.
(5) An emergency notification system that is approved by the
board under section 40 of this chapter.
(6) Connectivity to the Indiana data and communications system
(IDACS).
(7) Rates associated with communications service providers' 911
service emergency communications system network services.
(8) Mobile radio equipment used by first responders.
(b) A PSAP may not use a distribution from a county under this
chapter for the following:
(1) The construction, purchase, renovation, or furnishing of PSAP
buildings.
(2) Vehicles.
(c) Not later than January 31 of each year, each PSAP shall submit
to the board a report of the following:
(1) All expenditures made during the immediately preceding
calendar year from distributions under this chapter.
(2) Call data and statistics for the immediately preceding calendar
year, as specified by the board and collected in accordance with
any reporting method established or required by the board.
(3) All costs associated with dispatching appropriate public safety
agencies to respond to 911 calls received by the PSAP.
(4) All funding sources and amounts of funding used for costs
described in subdivision (3).
(5) Public safety telecommunicator continuing education
requirements established under IC 36-8-16.8-8(a)(2).
(d) The state board of accounts shall audit the expenditures of
distributions under this chapter by each PSAP that receives
distributions under this chapter. In conducting an audit under this
subsection, the state board of accounts shall determine, in conjunction
with the board, whether the expenditures made by each PSAP are in
compliance with subsections (a) and (b). The board shall review and
further audit any ineligible expenditure identified by the state board of
accounts under this subsection or through any other report. If the board
verifies that the expenditure did not comply with this section, the board
shall ensure that the fund is reimbursed in the dollar amount of the
noncomplying expenditure from any source of funding, other than a
fund described in subsection (e), that is available to the PSAP or to a
unit in which the PSAP is located.
(e) A distribution under section 37(a)(2) of this chapter must be
deposited by the treasurer of the county in a separate fund set aside for
the purposes allowed by subsections (a) and (b). The fund must be
known as the ________ (insert name of county) 911 fund. The county
treasurer may invest money in the fund in the same manner that other
money of the county may be invested, but income earned from the
investment must be deposited in the fund set aside under this
subsection.
(f) Not later than November 1 of each year, the board shall provide
in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6 to the general assembly the
information submitted under subsection (c)(3) and (c)(4).

Legislative History

As added by P.L.132-2012, SEC.20. Amended by P.L.157-2015, SEC.12; P.L.181-2015, SEC.51; P.L.13-2022, SEC.1; P.L.119-2024, SEC.25.