(A) The city is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into contracts or agreements with individuals, firms, private corporations or associations or political subdivisions of the state for fire protection outside the corporate limits of the city, and to contract to provide fire protection jointly with other organizations and municipal subdivisions of the state.
(B) Any contract entered into by the city, with an individual owner, firm or private corporation or association, for outside aid or mutual aid for fire protection shall provide for the payment by the owner, firm, private corporation or association or political subdivision to the city, for the fire apparatus and personnel at a specified rate. All moneys received from the calls shall go into the Fire Department Fund, to be used to purchase Fire Department equipment.
(C) The Fire Department is hereby authorized and directed to answer all outside calls within a distance of ten miles from the nearest fire station, unless, in the opinion of the Fire Chief, it is inexpedient to do so on account of another fire in the city, broken apparatus, impassable or dangerous highways or other physical conditions.
(D) All firefighters of the Fire Department attending or serving at fires, or doing fire prevention work outside the corporate limits of the city, shall be considered as serving in their regular line of duty as fully as if they were serving within the corporate limits of the city and the firefighters shall be entitled to all the benefits of any pension and relief fund in the same manner as if the firefighting or fire prevention work was being done within the corporate limits of the city.
(E) The Fire Department, answering any fire alarm or call, or performing any fire prevention services outside the corporate limits of the city, shall be considered as an agent of the state and acting solely and alone in a governmental capacity, and the municipality shall not be liable in damages for any act of commission, omission or negligence while answering or returning from any fire or reported fire, or doing any fire prevention work under and by virtue of this section.
(F) All motorized equipment of the Fire Department shall have the right-of-way over all other commercial and pleasure vehicles.
(2002 Code, § 91.01)