12-111. Fire fighting beyond territorial limits of city or township; privileges and immunities.
12-111
12-111. Fire fighting beyond territorial limits of city or township;
privileges and immunities.
Whenever the necessity arises during any emergency resulting from the
existence of a state of war, or from fire, or any other cause, the firemen
and officers of the fire department of any city or township may, together
with all necessary equipment, lawfully go or be sent beyond the territorial
limits of such cities or townships to any point within the state, to assist
in meeting such emergency: Provided, The fire chief or person in
charge of the fire department shall have the right in every case to
determine whether or not a city or township can spare all or any portion of
its fire equipment and firemen at any particular time. In such event the
acts performed for such purposes by such firemen or officers, and the
expenditures made for such purpose by such city or township shall be deemed
conclusively to be for a public and governmental purpose and all of the
immunities from liability enjoyed by a city or township when acting through
its firemen or officers of the fire department for a public or governmental
purpose within its territorial limits shall be enjoyed by it to the same
extent when such city or township is so acting under this section or under
other lawful authority beyond its territorial limits. The firemen and
officers of the fire department of any city or township, when acting
hereunder, or under other lawful authority, beyond the territorial limits
of such city or township, shall have all of the immunities from liability
and exemptions from laws, ordinances and regulations and shall have all of
the pension, relief, disability and other benefits, enjoyed by them while
performing their respective duties within the territorial limits of such
city or township.
History: L. 1943, ch. 169, § 1; March 11.