South Dakota § 34-45-4 - Monthly uniform 911 emergency surcharge.
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§ 34-45-4. Monthly uniform 911 emergency surcharge.
A monthly uniform 911 emergency surcharge of two dollars must be assessed per service user line. The proceeds of the 911 emergency surcharge must be used to pay for allowable nonrecurring and recurring costs of the 911 system. No 911 emergency surcharge may be imposed upon more than one hundred service user lines or equivalent service, per customer account billed, per month. In the case of multi-station network systems, the service user lines are equal to the number of calls that can simultaneously be made from the system to the public switched telephone network. No prepaid wireless telecommunications service is subject to the 911 emergency surcharge imposed under this section.
Source: SL 1989, ch 303, § 4; SL 1990, ch 281; SL 1991, ch 287; SL 1993, ch 255, § 2; SL 2008, ch 176, § 4; SL 2011, ch 163, § 1; SL 2012, ch 188, § 2; SL 2018, ch 208, § 1; SL 2024, ch 144, § 1; SL 2025, ch 143, § 2.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 34-45-4 ("Monthly uniform 911 emergency surcharge.") is part of the South Dakota Codified Laws, the codified statutory law of South Dakota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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