Opinion No. (2007)

¶ 0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following question:When a county has approved a countywide 911 emergency system for"hard-wired" telephones under the Nine-One-One Emergency Number Act("911 Act"), 63 O.S. 2001 Supp.2006, §§ 2811 — 2821, may a city withinthat county adopt its own emergency 911 system ordinance, assess its ownemergency telephone system fee, and in effect, "opt out" of the countysystem, without another election and approval by the county voters?

¶ 1 Two main issues are raised by this question:

1. In…