§803-47.9 Cost reimbursement. (a) A government entity obtaining the contents of communications, records, or other information shall pay to the person or entity providing or assembling the information a fee for reimbursement or costs that are reasonably necessary and that have been directly incurred in searching for, assembling, reproducing, or otherwise providing the information. The reimbursable costs shall include any costs due to necessary disruption of normal operations of any electronic communication service or remote computing service that was occasioned by the governmental needs.

(b) The amount of the fee provided by subsection (a) shall be as mutually agreed by the governmental entity and the person or entity providing the information or, in the absence of agreement, shall be as determined by the designated court that issued the order for production of the information or the court before which a criminal prosecution relating to the information would be brought, if no court order was issued for production of the information.

(c) The requirement of subsection (a) does not apply with respect to records or other information maintained by a communication common carrier that relate to telephone toll records and telephone listings obtained under section 803-47.6. However, the court may order a payment as described in subsection (a), if the court determines the information required is unusually voluminous in nature or otherwise caused an undue burden on the provider. [L 1989, c 164, pt of §1; am L 2006, c 200, pt of §4]