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For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AIDING AREA. An area served by a participating fire company furnishing fire equipment to a stricken area, or to another aiding area.
FIRE COMPANY. An organization formed for the purpose of providing equipment and trained persons to fight and extinguish fires, whether the organizations are part of a town, city, or township, or other municipal corporation or private corporation.
MUTUAL FIRE AID PROGRAM. A plan or program whereby the fire companies participating in the program agree to come to one another’s assistance in case of fire or other disaster too large for local equipment and personnel to handle.
PARTICIPATING MUNICIPALITY. A municipality that participates in the mutual fire aid program by adopting an ordinance authorizing or approving the program and entering into an appropriate agreement (substantially as provided herein) with other participating municipalities and/or fire companies for rendering and receiving aid in case of fire or other disaster.
STRICKEN AREAS. An area served by a participating fire company, in which a fire or other disaster occurs that is of such magnitude that it cannot be adequately coped with by local firefighting equipment and personnel.
(1985 Code, § 9-2-1) (Ord. 4-1981, passed 6-9-1981)
The Fire Chief is authorized on behalf of the city to enter into (and from time to time alter and amend) an agreement with any or all of the fire companies in the mutual aid areas defining and putting into effect a mutual aid program providing generally as follows.
(A) In the event that, in the judgment of the officer in charge of the Fire Department of a stricken area, the available firefighting equipment of that area is inadequate to effectively cope with a fire or other disaster therein, the officer may call on a neighboring participating area to furnish firefighting equipment and personnel (to the extent specified in the agreement) to the stricken area for use either:
(1) In combating the fire or other casualty; or
(2) As a standby reserve to meet other calls that may occur before the local firefighting equipment is free to take care of them.
(B) Each aiding area furnishing firefighting equipment to a stricken area shall have the right to call on another participating area for firefighting equipment and personnel (to the extent specified in the agreement) as a standby reserve to take the place, in part, of the equipment furnished to the stricken area until the equipment shall be returned.
(C) On receipt of a call under divisions (A) or (B) above, the aiding area called upon shall (to the extent provided in the agreement) furnish the equipment and personnel called for by the stricken area, or by the first aiding area, except that each aiding area may always be permitted to retain sufficient firefighting equipment and personnel to fight any fire or to meet any emergency within its own boundaries that may reasonably be anticipated.
(1985 Code, § 9-2-2) (Ord. 4-1981, passed 6-9-1981)
The Chiefs of the Fire Departments participating in the mutual aid shall prepare a mutual aid program which shall incorporate the necessary provisions of § 33.26. The mutual aid program shall, after approval by the corporate authorities of the areas participating, be in full force and effect and binding on the participating areas.
(1985 Code, § 9-2-3) (Ord. 4-1981, passed 6-9-1981)
The city shall furnish firefighting personnel and equipment for use by its personnel outside its boundaries only as provided in the tentative mutual fire aid program agreed to as provided herein, to any area that has agreed to conform to the program and has assumed the obligations imposed upon it thereby.
(1985 Code, § 9-2-4) (Ord. 4-1981, passed 6-9-1981)
(A) Pursuant to I.C. 36-8-13-3(a)(2), the Trustees of Lawrenceburg Township, Dearborn County, and the City Council of Greendale may agree that the city provide fire protection to portions of Lawrenceburg Township in the manner hereafter provided.
(1) Area covered by agreement. The following area or areas of Lawrenceburg Township may be covered by this agreement: that portion which lies east of Tanners Creek and outside the corporate limits of the City of Greendale and the City of Lawrenceburg.
(2) Term of agreement and annual payments.
(a) An agreement may be in effect for the indicated terms and subject to payment by the township to the city of the indicated annual amounts in consideration of the provision of the fire protection by the city, as follows:
Term Period
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Annual Payment |
1-1-1991 through 12-31-2010 | $10,500 |
(b) Annual payments as provided in this division (A)(2) are payable one-half during the month of January and one-half during the month of July of each year of a term as provided above. However, it is understood and agreed that in the event that any fire protection agreement is upset by action of the State Insurance Services Office, the payments for the services shall be prorated on a monthly basis for the services then rendered and paid accordingly; and the payments due under any agreement shall be subject to the final approval of the annual appropriations therefore by the State Tax Board.
(3) Character of fire service. Fire protection shall be provided by the use of a minimum of one pumper, equipped with a minimum of a 500-gallon booster tank and a minimum of a 750-gallon per minute pump and utility truck manned by six firefighters for daylight fires and ten firefighters at night fires which truck is equipped with a 500-gallon booster tank and a 750-gallon per minute pump.
(4) Termination of agreement; notice requirement. The parties may agree that if the fire protection service under the terms of this agreement is to be terminated, that written notice will be given to the I.S.O. Commercial Risk Services, 8125 Knue Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46250, of the termination at least 60 days in advance of the date for termination.
(5) Extension or amendment of agreement; procedure. The term of any agreement may be extended from year to year, or for other terms, by amending division (A)(2) above, as the parties may agree, to add the term of extension and determine the amount of annual payment applicable thereto. Other terms and stipulations of the agreement may also be amended from time to time, with the mutual consent of the parties and subject to any notification or approval as may be required by the State Insurance Services Office, through amendments to this section adopted by the City Council.
(B) The City Council will enact any ordinances or resolutions and execute any contracts or other documents as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
(1985 Code, § 9-2-5) (Ord. 13-1984, passed - -1984; Ord. 2-1991, passed 7-9-1991)
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