(A) The members of the Fire Department are not authorized to go beyond the corporate limits of the municipality for the purpose of rendering aid to other fire departments, or of extinguishing fires or rendering ambulance service; however, the Fire Department shall render such service outside the corporate limits only when the municipality has agreed to provide such services by an existing written contract, or by a mutual aid agreement contract, or by a mutual aid agreement with another municipality to render service to property located beyond the corporate limits of the municipality, and on orders of the Chief of the Fire Department, or his or her representative or the Village President, and in such cases, the Fire Department may leave the corporate limits of the municipality.
(B) The municipality may enter into a written contract for providing emergency ambulance and other fire emergency services to individuals residing in single-family residences, multiple-family residential dwellings, commercial establishments and industrial establishments on private property not within the corporate limits of the municipality shall be in such sums as may be determined and approved by the Board of Trustees.
(C) (1) In the event that emergency ambulance and other fire emergency services are rendered to individuals on private property not located within the corporate limits of the municipality, and no other contract is in effect, then in such case, the fee is established as outlined in § 33.10 for each call.
(2) When fire emergency services are rendered, the charge for such services shall be computed at the rate of $75 per hour per vehicle and $20 per hour per firefighter responding to a call for assistance. An additional charge may be levied to reimburse the village for extraordinary expenses of materials used in rendering such services. No charge shall be made for services for which the total charge would be less than $50.
(D) The Fire Department shall respond to such calls so long as the residents within the corporate limits of the municipality will not be denied reasonable availability of the Fire Department’s personnel or equipment.
(E) In the event there is not a valid existing contract between the individual and the municipality for such services rendered, then within five days after such services have been provided by the Fire Department, the Chief, or his or her appointed representative, shall prepare a statement of costs, and shall forward the same by certified mail to the owner of the subject property or to the individual receiving the services of the Department. In the event that the statement is not paid in full within 90 days, the Village Attorney is empowered to take such legal steps as may be necessary to secure payment, including, but not limited to, the filing of a civil action, as well as the perfecting of any and all liens relative to collecting such sums as may be due and payable for the rendering of said services.
(2000 Code, § 33.08) (Ord. 1413, passed 11-20-1989; Ord. 1622, passed 2-7-1996)