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INTRODUCED BY _________________________________________________

By Request of the ****

A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT GENERALLY REVISING PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCY AND PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT LAWS; PROVIDING FOR NOTIFICATION OF SERVICE REQUESTS; PROVIDING FOR SERVICE REQUESTS AND AGREEMENTS; AND superseding the unfunded mandate laws."

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:

NEW SECTION. Section 1. Public safety agencies and public safety answering points -- notification of service requests -- service requirements and agreements. (1) A public safety answering point must immediately notify a public safety agency with jurisdictional responsibilities of a request for service in the agency's jurisdiction, even when the answering point does not dispatch emergency services, and transfer or relay emergency communications to that public safety agency.

(2)        A public safety answering point must provide dispatch services to a public safety agency if the agency is in the service area of that public safety answering point and the jurisdiction of the requesting public safety agency serves fewer than 10,000 people.

(3)        If a public safety agency requesting dispatch services serves a jurisdiction of more than 10,000 people, then the public safety answering point and the requesting public safety agency may enter into an agreement to compensate additional costs to the public safety answering point.

NEW SECTION. Section 2. Unfunded mandate laws superseded. The provisions of [this act] expressly supersede and modify the requirements of 1-2-112 through 1-2-116.

NEW SECTION. Section 3. Codification instruction. [Section 1] is intended to be codified as an integral part of Title 10, chapter 4, part 1, and the provisions of Title 10, chapter 4, part 1, apply to [section 1].