{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-2871","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-2871","heading":"Short title — Regional Emergency 9-1-1 Services Act —","body":"Purpose — Regional emergency communication districts.\n\nA. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Regional\n\nEmergency 9-1-1 Services Act”.\n\nB. It is the purpose of the Regional Emergency 9-1-1 Services\n\nAct to encourage formation of emergency communication districts in\n\norder to provide efficient delivery of emergency 9-1-1 service\n\nthroughout the state.\n\nC. The Regional Emergency 9-1-1 Services Act shall not apply to\n\nany 9-1-1 system or public agency participating in a 9-1-1 system\n\nthat was established prior to January 1, 2017, and that had adopted\n\nPhase II 9-1-1 service by that date.\n\nD. A new public safety answering point shall not be established\n\nafter July 1, 2024, unless the new public safety answering point is\n\nestablished as a result of:\n\n1. A consolidation with an existing public safety answering\n\npoint; or\n\n2. A replacement of an existing public safety answering point.\n\nE. For the purposes of this section:\n\n1. “District” means an emergency communication district;\n\n2. “Emergency communication district” means a district formed\n\npursuant to the Regional Emergency 9-1-1 Services Act to deliver\n\nemergency 9-1-1 services on a regional basis;\n\n3. “9-1-1 system” means an entity that processes emergency 9-1-\n\n1 calls through a public safety answering point;\n\n4. “Participating public agency” means a public agency that is\n\nincluded in a district;\n\n5. “Principal municipality” means the municipality with the\n\nlargest population in a district; and\n\n6. “Public agency” means any city, town, county, municipal\n\ncorporation, public district, public trust, substate planning\n\ndistrict, public authority or tribal authority located within this\n\nstate which provides or has authority to provide firefighting, law\n\nenforcement, ambulance, emergency medical or other emergency\n\nservices.\n\nF. On or before December 31, 2017, all public agencies in this\n\nstate shall form regional emergency communication districts for the\n\npurpose of creating an area-wide emergency 9-1-1 system for their\n\nrespective jurisdictions. The territory of the district shall be\n\ncoextensive with the territory of the regional substate planning\n\ndistrict unless a different territory is approved by the Oklahoma 9-\n\n1-1 Management Authority. If a public agency is situated in more\n\nthan one such territory, it shall become part of the district in\n\nwhich it is principally located. If, due to the effect of\n\nsubsection C of this section, the majority of the participating\n\npublic agencies located in the territory of a proposed district\n\ndetermine that it would be in the best interests of their citizens,\n\nthey may request inclusion in an adjacent district.\n\nG. The public agencies to be included in each district may form\n\nthe district by entering into local cooperative agreements which\n\nshall establish a governance structure and provide for the joint\n\nimplementation, funding, operation, and management of the district.\n\nH. If the public agencies in a region are unable to develop a\n\nlocal cooperative agreement by December 31, 2017, they shall be\n\nincluded in an emergency communication district that is governed by\n\na board of directors consisting of an appointee by each public\n\nagency that was authorized by its voters to fund a 9-1-1 system\n\nprior to the formation of the district, one appointee elected by a\n\nmajority of the remaining public agencies in the district, and an\n\nadditional appointee by the principal municipality in the district\n\nwho shall serve as chair of the board.\n\nI. Unless otherwise provided by agreement, any participating\n\npublic agency that had been authorized by its voters to fund a 9-1-1\n\nsystem prior to the formation of the district shall retain control\n\nof the property, operation, and funding of its system; provided,\n\nhowever, the district may contract with such participating public\n\nagency to include the agency’s system in the district’s master\nrd.\n\nI. Unless otherwise provided by agreement, any participating\n\npublic agency that had been authorized by its voters to fund a 9-1-1\n\nsystem prior to the formation of the district shall retain control\n\nof the property, operation, and funding of its system; provided,\n\nhowever, the district may contract with such participating public\n\nagency to include the agency’s system in the district’s master\n\nimplementation plan. To the extent practicable, the district shall\n\nnot duplicate the equipment or answering point services already\n\nprovided by a participating public agency. A user of one or more\n\ncommunication services subject to the payment of fees or taxes for\n\nan emergency 9-1-1 system shall not be charged for more than one\n\nsuch fee or tax for each service.\n\nJ. An emergency communication district shall have power to make\n\nall contracts to carry out the purposes of the Regional Emergency 9-\n\n1-1 Services Act, purchase and convey real property, impose service\n\nfees authorized for public agencies for the provision of 9-1-1\n\nservice, appoint a manager of the district, and adopt rules and\n\npolicies for the operation of the district.\n\nK. Within one (1) year after the effective date of the\n\nformation of the district, the board of directors shall submit its\n\nmaster plan to deliver Phase II emergency 9-1-1 service throughout\n\nits territory to the Oklahoma 9-1-1 Management Authority for\n\napproval. The Authority shall have the power to prescribe the terms\n\nof the plan and to approve or disapprove the master plan.\n\nAdditionally, the Authority shall have the power to request the Tax\n\nCommission to escrow the wireless fees attributable to the public\n\nagencies which have not submitted a master plan or which have not\n\ncomplied with the terms of the master plan.\n\nL. An emergency communication district shall operate on a\n\nfiscal year beginning July 1. It shall adopt an annual budget and\n\ncause to be prepared an independent financial audit annually. As\n\nsoon as practicable after the end of the fiscal year, the district\n\nshall deliver to each participating public agency an annual report\n\nshowing in detail the operations of the district.","path":["OK Code","Title 63"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"808ec017d26073256eddfe5e904d7bb7202bbdeda4ad68fcd8c9a07420be896f","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-2870","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-2872"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}