Missouri Revised Statutes § 650.390 - Definitions

650.390. Definitions. — As used in sections 650.390 to 650.411, the following words and terms mean: (1) "Board of commissioners", a board appointed by the chief executive officer of the governing body within a service area for the purpose of administering a county emergency communications system. No board of commissioners established pursuant to sections 650.390 to 650.411 shall have jurisdiction over local emergency or police dispatching agencies; (2) "County", any charter county with a population of more than nine hundred thousand inhabitants; (3) "Emergency communications system", a wireless radio communication network, including infrastructure hardware and software, providing communications links that permit participating governmental or public safety entities to communicate within the area served by such system which is coterminous with the geographic boundaries of the county in which the emergency communications system is situated; (4) "Governing body", the legislative body of any county with a charter form of government and a population of more than nine hundred thousand inhabitants. (L. 2002 S.B. 795)