(A) The city, City Volunteer Fire Department, any city agency, any agent of city or any other dispatched emergency response team responding to an incident shall respond to releases or threatened releases outside its service area of jurisdiction only if written agreements are executed with the handler, user or other public entity requesting assistance, prior to the response. Said agreements to be approved by the City Council.
(B) In the event that the city, City Volunteer Fire Department, any city agency, any agent of city or any other dispatched emergency response team responding to an incident or responding to a release or threatened release outside its service area or jurisdiction under the conditions described above, the handler, user or other public entity requesting assistance shall assume responsibility to the city or the City Volunteer Fire Department or any other dispatched emergency response team for all personnel costs incurred in responding to the release or threatened release, replacement costs of supplies and equipment contaminated as a result of the release or threatened release and proper disposal of contaminated materials, cleanup, evacuation and administrative and other expenses that result for the release of threatened release. The City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to initiate such proceedings against the handler, user or other public entity in the name of the city, in any court having jurisdiction over such matters as are necessary to recover the costs described herein.
(Ord. 04-12-04, passed 5-10-2004)