(a) The department has the authority to promulgate rules and regulations regarding access to its statewide P25 interoperable communications system, including the authority to collect, by rules or regulations, assessments for the use and/or maintenance of the system.
(b) Any assessments collected by the department pursuant to the rules and regulations established in subsection (a) shall be expendable receipts of the department for use in maintaining the statewide P25 interoperable communications system.