Legal Documents of Kingston

The city council shall have full power and authority to authorize the use of the city's firefighting equipment and personnel outside the corporate limits to suppress and extinguish fires, subject to such conditions and limitations of such action as the city council may impose pursuant to the authority of:

1. Tennessee Code Annotated, §§ 58-8-101, et seq., the Mutual Aid and Emergency Disaster Assistance Agreement Act of 2004, which authorizes municipalities to respond to requests from other governmental entities affected by situations in which its resources are inadequate to handle. The act provides procedures and requirements for providing assistance. No separate mutual aid agreement is required, unless assistance is provided to entities in other states, but a municipality may, by resolution, continue existing agreements or establish separate agreements to provide assistance. Assistance to entities in other states is still provided pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated, §§ 12-9-101, et seq. "Assistance" is defined in the act as "the provision of personnel, equipment, facilities, services, supplies, and other resources to assist in firefighting, law enforcement, the provision of public works services, the provision of emergency medical care, the provision of civil defense services, or any other emergency assistance one (1) governmental entity is able to provide to another in response to a request for assistance in a municipal, county, state, or federal state of emergency."
2. Tennessee Code Annotated, §§ 12-9-101, et seq., the Interlocal Cooperation Act, which authorizes municipalities and other governments to enter into mutual aid agreements of various kinds.
3. Tennessee Code Annotated, § 6-54-601, which authorizes municipalities to:
   
   
   
   
   1. 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 industrial 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 such communities with firefighting assistance.
   3. Provide fire protection outside their city limits to either citizens on an individual contractual basis, or to citizens in an area without individual contracts, 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. (Counties may compensate municipalities for the extension of fire services.)