§ 5-17-108. Service Supplementary
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit in any way the fire departments of any municipality or utility district providing fire service, but merely authorizes such county fire protection service to contract with municipalities or utility districts in order to coordinate fire service county-wide.
§ 5-17-101. Formation
The county legislative body or other governing body of any county is authorized to form a new agency to be known as the county-wide fire department for the purpose of providing fire protection services to all of the county. The powers and duties of the county-wide fire department may be delegated by the county legislative […]
§ 5-17-102. Powers and Duties
With the specific exceptions relating to metropolitan governments provided for in this section, the county-wide fire department is empowered to do all things necessary to provide coordinated fire protection to all areas of the county, including, but not limited to: Sue and be sued; Take or acquire real or personal property of every kind, or […]
§ 5-17-103. County Fire Chief
The county-wide fire department shall be headed by an official to be known as the county fire chief, in whom shall be vested all the powers of the agency and the right to delegate those powers to such persons as the fire chief may see fit. While responding to, operating at, or returning from an […]
§ 5-17-104. Budget
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 […]
§ 5-17-105. Fire and Emergency Services Tax Districts
The boundaries of fire and emergency services tax districts shall be determined by the county legislative body or other governing body, and shall become fixed by resolution of the county legislative body or other governing body thirty (30) days or more after notice of the determination of the boundaries of a district has been given […]
§ 5-17-106. Fire and Emergency Services Tax — Levy
The county legislative body or other governing body shall levy an annual fire and emergency services tax upon the property owners of each district. The county legislative body of any county having a population of not less than eighty thousand (80,000) nor more than eighty-three thousand (83,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any […]
§ 5-17-107. Fire and Emergency Services Tax — Inclusion in Property Tax
The fire and emergency services tax shall be assessed in the same manner as the county property tax and collected as an addition thereto. The fire and emergency services tax shall in all ways be treated as a part of the county property tax.