Hutchinson v. CHOCTAW COUNTY EMERGENCY COMM. DIST.

This appeal concerns the propriety of the retention, by an emergency communication district ("ECD"), of certain emergency-telephone-service charges assessed by the ECD under Title 11, Chapter 98, Ala. Code 1975.

In 1984, the Legislature enacted Act No. 84-369, Ala. Acts 1984, which pertains to emergency telephone service; that Act was subsequently codified at Title 11, Chapter 98, Ala. Code 1975. That legislation, among other things, established the digits "911" as "the primary emergency telephone number for use" in ECDs. Act No. 84-369, § 2. Pursuant to authority granted by the Legislature in…