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Title 7 : Fire Protection and Fireworks
Chapter 4 : Volunteer Fire Department Cost Recovery

7-402 : Definitions.

  1. Costs shall mean and include, but not be limited to those expenses incurred responding to each incident that would not have been incurred if there was no incident. These cost shall include equipment and operating costs of the fire department including salaries, consumables, training, apparatus, and equipment, both direct and indirect; including those for which funds are not provided in the town's fiscal budget.

    1. All costs incurred for each response to a motor vehicle accident or fire incident.
    2. All costs incurred for response, containment, and/or removal and disposal of hazardous materials or remedial actions to include costs associated with temporary storage of hazardous materials.
    3. All costs incurred for ensuring the safety of the public to include costs incurred for actions taken at the site of the motor vehicle accident or fire incident.
    4. Damages for injury to, destruction of, or loss of natural resources, as determined by the appropriate local, state, or federal agency, including the reasonable costs of assessing such injury, destruction, or loss resulting from a motor vehicle accident, fire incident or hazardous material incident.
    5. Health care costs for persons injured from a motor vehicle accident or fire incident, including all medical assessment and treatment provided by first responder, EMTs, and paramedics at the scene prior to ambulance transport, if necessary.
    6. Health care costs for persons or animals injured from a hazardous material incident or costs of any health effects study carried out as a necessity resulting from a hazardous material incident.
    7. All costs incurred for response and remedial actions to disasters and large-scale accidents or events to include, but not limited to, cost associated with capture, transport, and housing of animals; medical treatment of injured animals; etc.
    8. Labor including benefits, overtime, and administrative overhead for government employees.
    9. The costs of operating, maintaining, leasing, repairing, and replacing equipment, and any and all damage to equipment.
    10. Contract labor and equipment.
    11. Labor and equipment obtained by the Dandridge Volunteer Fire Department, its agencies or agents, and the municipalities.
    12. Materials, including but not limited to, medical supplies such as "C" collars, drug administration by trained first responders, EMTs, and/or paramedics.
    13. Materials, including but not limited to, absorbents, foams, dispersants, neutralization agents, over pack drums or containers, dart tranquilizers, euthanasia solutions, etc.
    14. Supervision of response.
  2. "Fire incident" shall mean a situation in which a structure, vehicle, or grass is on fire.
  3. "Hazardous materials" shall mean any substance or material defined, listed, characterized, or classified as a hazardous material, hazardous substance, hazardous waste, or toxic substance according to any or all of the following: title 40, Code of Federal Regulations part 261 (Identification and Listing of Hazardous Wastes); title 40, Code of Federal Regulations part 304.4 (Designation of Hazardous Substances); title 40, Code of Federal Regulations part 355, appendices A and B (List of Extremely Hazardous Substances): title 49, Code of Federal Regulations parts 172.101 and 172.102 (Hazardous Materials Table). (Ord. #09/10-12, April 2010, modified)
Date Last Updated: 09/10/2019
Codification Date: 06/01/2019

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - George Gantte 
Vice Mayor - Todd Kesterson 
Aldermen - Mike Chambers 
Aldermen - Jeffrey Depew 
Aldermen - Jessie Elder 
Aldermen - Mike Nelson 
Aldermen - Marianne Reese 
Town Recorder - Cathy Dixon

Date Last Updated: 09/10/2019
Codification Date: 06/01/2019

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - George Gantte 
Vice Mayor - Todd Kesterson 
Aldermen - Mike Chambers 
Aldermen - Jeffrey Depew 
Aldermen - Jessie Elder 
Aldermen - Mike Nelson 
Aldermen - Marianne Reese 
Town Recorder - Cathy Dixon