(1) (a) Users of the office's telephone and data communication services shall be charged the full cost of the particular service, which shall include the cost of all material, labor, and overhead. Said user charges shall be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall credit the same to the information technology revolving fund created in section 24-37.5-112. The revolving fund shall include user charges on public safety radio systems of a state agency or other state entity; except that no municipality, county, city and county, or special district shall be charged user charges on public safety radio systems of a state agency or other state entity.
(b) Repealed.
The chief information officer shall establish a policy of remaining competitive withprivate industry with regard to the cost, timeliness, and quality of the telephone service or data communication functions provided by the office. An agency may only purchase private services if it has first worked with the office and the office has authorized the purchase of private services.
The chief of the Colorado state patrol shall pay all expenses of dispatchers and othernecessary employees used in connection with the operation of the law enforcement radio system within the state telecommunications network in the same manner as expenses of other employees of said patrol are paid.
Source: L. 2008: Entire part added with relocations, p. 1124, § 9, effective May 22. L. 2011: Entire section amended, (SB 11-062), ch. 128, p. 433, § 13, effective April 22. L. 2018: (3) added with relocated provisions, (HB 18-1373), ch. 390, p. 2341, § 4, effective August 8.
Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 24-30-908 as it existed prior to 2008.
Subsection (1)(b) provided for the repeal of subsection (1)(b), effective July 1, 2012.
(See L. 2011, p. 433.)
Subsection (3) is similar to former § 24-33.5-223 (3) as it existed prior to 2018.
Cross references: For the legislative declaration in HB 18-1373, see section 1 of chapter 390, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.