34A.6A  Alternative surcharge — temporary moratorium.
  1.  Notwithstanding section 34A.6, the board may request imposition of an alternative surcharge in an amount up to two dollars and fifty cents per month on each telephone access line. The board shall submit the question of the alternative surcharge to voters in the same manner as provided in section 34A.6. Not less than sixty days before the date of the referendum, the board shall notify all local exchange service providers in the county or counties comprising the E911 service area that a referendum on an alternative surcharge will be held. Not less than thirty days before the date of the referendum, the board shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties comprising the E911 service area a statement of estimated costs as described in section 34A.2, subsection 9, paragraph “e”, subparagraph (1), and justification of the need for the additional revenue. If approved, the alternative surcharge may be collected for a period of twenty-four months. At the end of the twenty-four-month period, the rate of the surcharge shall revert to one dollar per month, per access line.
  2.  Notwithstanding subsection 1, a temporary moratorium shall be applicable to a new surcharge authorized pursuant to this section until one hundred and fifty days after submission of recommendations by the E911 task force established by 2012 Iowa Acts, chapter 1111, to the general assembly.
93 Acts, ch 125, §3; 2012 Acts, ch 1111, §4
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