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![handle is hein.sag/sagfl0042 and id is 1 raw text is: Advisory Legal Opinion - Airports, public safety telecommunicators
Florida Attorney General
Advisory Legal Opinion
Number: AGO 2011-03
Date: February 25, 2011
Subject: Airports, public safety telecommunicators
Mr. Charles D. Bailey, Jr.
Williams, Parker, Harrison,
Dietz & Getzen
200 South Orange Avenue
Sarasota, Florida 34236
RE: E911 - PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMMUNICATORS - AIRPORTS - EMERGENCIES -
SAFETY - TRAINING - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - communication specialists as
public safety telecommunicators subject to training requirements. s.
401.465, Fla. Stat.
Dear Mr. Bailey:
As general counsel to the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority, you have
asked for my opinion on substantially the following question:
Does section 401.465(2) (a), Florida Statutes, require communication
specialists within the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport's
communications center to be trained and certified as 911 public safety
telecommunicators when they do not take E911 calls and they are not
employed at a 911 answering point?
In sum:
Section 401.465(2) (a), Florida Statutes, does not require communication
specialists within the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport's
communications center to be trained and certified as 911 public safety
telecommunicators.
The Sarasota-Manatee Airport Authority is a special district in Manatee and
Sarasota Counties created for the purpose of acquiring, constructing,
improving, financing, operating, and maintaining airport facilities. [l]
The authority has been designated a public instrumentality by the
Legislature and is deemed to be exercising an essential governmental
function. [2] You have advised this office that the authority owns and
operates the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport (SRQ) which serves
scheduled passenger air carriers in Sarasota and Manatee Counties. The
airport straddles the county line between the two counties, and a portion
of the airport is located in the City of Sarasota. You question whether
communication specialists working for the Sarasota Bradenton International
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