2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 75 - FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS 75.050 Contracts by fire units or districts, cities and counties, for fire protection.
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75.050 Contracts by fire units or districts, cities and counties, for fire
protection.
Any fire protection district created as provided in KRS 75.010, and any fire protection
district or fire prevention district hereafter created pursuant to present or future law,
and any municipal corporation, volunteer fire department, volunteer fire prevention
unit, or volunteer fire protection unit, may, through its governing body, make and
enter into contracts with any other fire protection district, fire prevention district,
municipal corporation, volunteer fire department, volunteer fire prevention unit, or
volunteer fire protection unit, either within the same county or within an adjoining
county in an area adjacent to the boundary line between the counties, for the
furnishing or receiving of fire protection services for all property within the confines of
the area included in and covered by the contract or contracts, where such fire
protection is not otherwise provided by some division of government or
governmental agency. Similar contracts may be made and entered into between any
county and an adjoining county, or between any county and any one (1) or more
municipalities or districts, departments or units of the character above mentioned,
located either within the county or within an adjoining county in an area adjacent to
the boundary line between the counties. The personnel and equipment of a
contracting party, in going to and returning from a fire, or in answering and
responding to a false fire alarm or call, and while endeavoring to extinguish fires
within the area covered by the contract, shall be deemed and hereby is declared to
be engaged in the exercise of a governmental function.
History: Amended 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 154, sec. 1. -- Created 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 133,
sec. 5.
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