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Sec. 46-26. Service outside city--Fees; appropriation.

(a) The mayor, fire chief or any person duly delegated authority by the fire chief shall be authorized to dispatch fire companies of the city fire department outside the city limits to combat fires.

(b) The person outside the city limits receiving the fire protection services of the city fire department as contained herein shall pay a service charge of $200.00 for the first hour of service or any fraction thereof plus $100.00 per hour for each additional hour or fraction thereof to the city clerk, 50 percent of which shall go into the city's fire fund, 40 percent of which shall go into a fund to draw interest and to be used to help replace dilapidated and worn out equipment of the fire department (such fund to be called the apparatus replacement fund), and the remaining ten percent to be deposited into the city firemen's pension and relief fund.

(c) At the discretion of the fire chief, the service charge may be waived if the property owner receiving services is a dues paid subscriber to the fire department receiving aid from the city fire department.

(Code 1973, § 11-7)

State law reference(s)--Mayor shall have the power to appoint the fire chief, A.C.A. § 14-43-504; council may authorize firefighting beyond city limits, A.C.A. § 14-53-102; costs incurred in extraterritorial firefighting should be recovered, A.C.A. § 14-53-102(b)(1).

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