Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3156 – Aid to other municipalities
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3156
- Municipal fire department: means an organized firefighting unit established under municipal charter, ordinance or bylaw to prevent and extinguish fires and, if authorized by charter, ordinance or bylaw, to provide emergency services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3151
- Municipal officers: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001Municipality: means a city or town, except as provided in chapter 225. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 Provide emergency services: means to respond to and manage other public safety emergencies, including, but not limited to, medical emergencies, hazardous materials incidents or natural or man-made disasters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3151 Volunteer fire association: means an organized firefighting unit incorporated under Title 13, chapter 81, or Title 13?B, and which is officially recognized by the municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 3151
Unless otherwise provided by charter or ordinance, the municipal officers may authorize the municipal fire department or, if separate, employees who provide emergency services to aid with any public safety emergencies in other municipalities by providing as needed all the municipal fire department’s available resources or, if separate, available employees who provide emergency services. Municipal and volunteer firefighters and employees who provide emergency services when assisting other municipalities have the same privileges and immunities as when acting in their own municipality. Any municipality may compensate an aiding municipality or volunteer fire association for damage to the aiding department’s or association’s property and to any firefighter or to the firefighter’s surviving spouse or dependents because of injury or death sustained in the course of rendering aid to that municipality. [PL 2005, c. 519, Pt. KKK, §1 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1987, c. 737, §§A2,C106 (NEW). PL 1989, c. 6 (AMD). PL 1989, c. 9, §2 (AMD). PL 1989, c. 104, §§A30,C8,C10 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 570, §3 (AMD). PL 2005, c. 519, §KKK1 (AMD).