- The county-wide fire department shall prepare an annual budget of anticipated receipts and expenditures, and it shall be submitted to the county legislative body or other governing body of the county.
- In those counties that have established fire and emergency services tax districts, the county-wide fire department shall determine what share of the total annual expense of the county-wide fire department must be allocated to each fire and emergency services tax district.
- In those counties having a metropolitan government, the budget for the county-wide fire department shall be prepared, submitted and adopted in the manner provided therefor in the charter of the metropolitan government.