403.21 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Applications.  The definitions in this 
 section apply to sections 403.21 to 403.34. 

    Subd. 2.    Board.  "Board" or "radio board" means the 
 Metropolitan Radio Board. 

    Subd. 3.    First phase.  "First phase" or "first phase 
 of the regionwide public safety radio communications system" 
 means the initial backbone which serves the following 
 nine-county metropolitan area:  Anoka, Carver, Chisago, 
 Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington Counties. 

    Subd. 4.    Local elected officials.  "Local elected 
 officials" means any elected official of a local government. 

    Subd. 5.    Local government.  "Local government" means 
 any county, home rule charter or statutory city, or town, lying 
 in whole or in part within the metropolitan area. 

    Subd. 6.    NPSPAC channels.  "NPSPAC channels" or 
 "National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee channels" 
 means the following 800 megahertz channels:  821 to 824 and 866 
 to 869 megahertz.  

    Subd. 7.    Plan.  "Plan" or "regionwide public safety 
 radio system communication plan" means the plan adopted by the 
 Metropolitan Radio Board for a regionwide public safety radio 
 communications system.  

    Subd. 8.    Subsystems.  "Subsystems" or "public safety 
 radio subsystems" means systems identified in the plan as 
 subsystems interconnected by the first phase backbone in 
 subsequent phases and operated by local government units for 
 their own internal operations. 

    Subd. 9.    System; backbone system.  "System" or 
 "backbone system" means a regionwide public safety radio 
 communication system that consists of a shared regionwide 
 infrastructure network, the elements of which are identified in 
 the regionwide public safety radio communications system plan, 
 and subsystems interconnected by the shared regionwide network. 

    Subd. 10.    Second phase.  "Second phase" means the 
 Metropolitan Radio Board providing assistance to local 
 government units building subsystems in the metropolitan area 
 that did not build their own subsystems in the first phase. 

    Subd. 11.    Third phase.  "Third phase" means an 
 extension of the backbone system to serve the southeast and 
 central districts of the State Patrol. 

    HIST: 1995 c 195 art 1 s 2; 2002 c 401 art 1 s 4,5; 1Sp2003 c 
 1 art 2 s 113,114,135