Legal Documents of Baxter
Code of Baxter
Title 7 Fire Protection and Fireworks
Chapter 4 Fire Service Outside City Limits
7-401 : Response and travel of fire service outside city limits.[4]
At given times fire personnel or equipment of the fire department can be used for response outside the city limits. The City of Baxter may allow response outside the city for a fire on city property, automatic aid agreements, mutual aid agreements, requested aid in a hazardous condition, or to render aid. At times it may be necessary or quicker to respond outside the city limits to access the incident. The mayor and the councilmen have developed policies or designated the fire chief to allow providing emergency services outside of the city limits or entered into a contract or mutual aid agreement pursuant to the authority of:
- Tennessee Code Annotated, §§ 12-9-101, et seq.4
- Tennessee Code Annotated, § 6-54-601.5
- Tennessee Code Annotated, §§ 58-8-101, et seq.
It shall be allowed for other travel outside the city for personnel and apparatus as needed for various reasons per approval of the fire chief staff. Vehicles are exempt from restrictions. (Ord. #2020-18, June 2021, modified)
Tennessee Code Annotated, § 6-54-601, authorizes municipalities:
1. To enter into mutual aid agreements with other municipalities, counties, privately incorporated fire departments, utility districts and metropolitan airport authorities which provide for firefighting service, and with individual fire departments to furnish one another with firefighting assistance.
2. Enter into contracts with organizations of residents and property owners of unincorporated communities to provide the latter with firefighting assistance.
3. Provide fire protection outside their city limits to either areas or citizens on an individual contractual basis whenever an agreement has first been entered into between the municipality providing the fire service and the county or counties in which the fire protection is to be provided.