Sec. 7-310. Operation of fire equipment in and provision of personnel and assistance to other municipality.
Sec. 7-310. Operation of fire equipment in and provision of personnel and
assistance to other municipality. Any city, town, borough, fire district, independent
fire department or independent fire company may locate, use, man and operate fire
stations, fire apparatus, ambulances, rescue trucks, radio and fire-alarm systems and
other fire equipment and provide personnel and other assistance for the investigation
of the cause and origin of fires, in any other city, town, borough or fire district, upon
such terms respecting the location, use, management and operation as may be mutually
agreed upon between the boards of fire commissioners or other persons having the
management and control of the fire departments or fire companies. Any officer or member of a fire department or fire company while operating outside the jurisdictional limits
of his fire department or fire company in accord with such an agreement shall have the
same rights, privileges and immunities that are granted him when operating within the
jurisdictional limits of his fire department or fire company.
(1949 Rev., S. 679; 1963, P.A. 136; P.A. 73-58.)
History: 1963 act extended section to independent fire departments or companies, included ambulances, rescue trucks,
radio systems and other fire equipment and extended rights, privileges and immunities to firemen operating outside their
jurisdiction in accord with agreement; P.A. 73-58 added provision re investigations of fires.
Cited. 140 C. 414. Cited. 196 C. 192.