The Board of
Supervisors of Winston County, Mississippi took up the matter of the need for
official action to implement the authority granted to the County under Senate
Bill No. 2938, 2010 Regular Session, Mississippi Legislature, amending
Mississippi Code Annotated Section 19-5-313 (1972) and imposing a service charge on Voice over Internet
Protocol (“VOIP”) subscribers in the Winston County. After full discussion of the subject,
Supervisor______________ offered and moved the adoption of the following
Resolution.
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF WINSTON
COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI , IMPLEMENTING
AUTHORITY GRANTED BY SENATE BILL NO. 2938, 2010 REGULAR SESSION, MISSISSIPPI
LEGISLATURE, IMPOSING A SERVICE CHARGE ON VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (“VOIP”)
SUBSCRIBERS IN WINSTON COUNTY.
I.
In the 2010 Regular Session of the Mississippi
Legislature, Senate Bill No. 2938 was enacted and subsequently signed into law
by the Governor, which bill amended Miss. Code Ann. § 19-5-313 (1982) by
authorizing the Board to levy an emergency telephone service charge in the
amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per residential VOIP subscriber account and Two
Dollars ($2.00) per commercial VOIP subscriber account per month throughout the
County.
II.
The Board of Supervisors of Winston County, Mississippi
desires to exercise its authority to levy such an emergency service charge in
the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per residential VOIP subscriber account per
month, and Two Dollars ($2.00) per commercial VOIP subscriber account per
month, except that this charge shall not be imposed upon more than twenty-five
(25) VOIP lines per commercial subscriber account per location, which charge
shall have uniform application to include re-sellers, bundled packages that
include phone service, and new and emerging technologies that provide service
to Winston E-911, and is to be imposed throughout the entirety of the County in
conformity with the availability of such emergency response service in the
County.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Board that this charge shall be collected by
every VOIP service supplier commencing upon the date of this Resolution’s
effectiveness which shall be _______ (__) days after its passage, and that the
Clerk of the Board is directed to distribute a copy of this Resolution to every
VOIP service supplier providing service in Winston County.
Following the reading of the foregoing resolution,
Supervisor ________________ seconded the motion for its adoption. The President put the question to a roll call
vote and the result was as follows:
Supervisor
____________________ voted: _____
Supervisor
____________________ voted: _____
Supervisor
____________________ voted: _____
Supervisor
____________________ voted: _____
Supervisor_____________________ voted: _____
The motion having received the affirmative vote of a
majority of the members present, the President declared the motion carried and
the resolution adopted, on this the _____ day of _________________, 2011.
(SEAL)
ATTEST: ADOPTED:
_______________________________
CLERK OF
THE BOARD PRESIDENT
The above
and foregoing Resolution having been submitted to and approved by the
Board of Supervisors, this the
______ day of ______________, 2013.
ATTEST: APPROVED:
____________________________
JULIE CUNNINGHAM MIKE PETERSON
CHANCERY CLERK PRESIDENT
(SEAL)
CERTIFICATE
The above and foregoing resolution was enacted by the Board
of Supervisors of Winston County, Mississippi, on ____________, 2013, and
appears of record in Minute Book ___.
This the ______ day of ____________, 2013.
__________________________________________ JULIE
CUNNINGHAM, CHANCERY CLERK
(SEAL)