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ORDINANCE NO.
553
AN, ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE JACKSONVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO
PROVIDE FIRE PROTECTION OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS OF JACKSONVILLE;
AMENDING ORDINANCE 192 AND CHAPTER 2.20 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE
OF JACKSONVILLE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE,
ARKANSAS, THAT:
SECTION 1: Ordinance number 192, and Chapter 2.20 of the
Jacksonville ,Municipal Code are amended to read as follows:
2.20.040
2.20.050
2.20.060
Application for Outside Fire Protection - Conditions.
Mutual Aid Agreements.
Adoption by Reference.
2.20.040
Application for Outside Fire Protection - Conditions.
Any person, fiLlH or cOJ..tJora tion wi thin a ,radius of five
highway miles of any fire station of the City of Jacksonville
is hereby granted the privilege of applying to the Jacksonville
City Council for limited fire fighting equipment protection as
to property in which such person, fiLlH, or corporation has an
interest. The City Council, at its discretion, may approve or
reject any such application.
If the City Council approves an application, then the fire
fighting facilities of the City of Jacksonville shall then be
available 'to the applicant on the following conditions;
(a) Agreement. An agreement shall be signed by the appli-
cant, which agreement shall state that the City agrees only to
furnish limited fire fighting equipment and that the applicant
agrees that any portion or all of this equipment may be recalled
at any time by the City when, in the judgment of the fire chief
such equipment is necessary for fire protection within the City
of Jacksonville. This agreement shall further provide that the
City does not undertake to guarantee any fire fighting results
and that the City offers only such reasonable equipment as is
consistent with conditions prevailing at the time. Further, this
agreement shall state that the applicant agrees that no claims of
any kind or nature shall ever be asserted against the City as a
result of the use and/or operation of the fire fighting equipment.
(b) Fee. The applicant shall pay in advance to the City
Collector an annual fee of $100.00, which shall be known as the
"ready to serve fee".
(c) Purpose and intent. The pULtJose of this ordinance is
to offer service to separate properties subject to fire damage.
The grouping of one or more properties shall not be allowed for
the purposes of this ordinance. It is the intent of the City
Council to offer limited fire fighting protection to any prop-
erties not within the jurisdiction of another fire department,
including volunteer fire departments.
(d) Usage fee. In addition to the "ready to serve fee"
provided for abQve, the applicant shall pay a usage fee of $100.00
per hour or fraction of an hour for each fire fighting company
which responds to an alatJ..Hl on the premises of the applicant, whether
the alaloo is false or comes as a result of a fire. Only one fire
fighting company shall respond to an alaLlll on the premises of any
applicant unless the applicant, personally or through an agent,
requests ,additional companies. The City shall not be bound to
dispatch any equipment unless the equipment is available and not
needed at the time for fire fighting within the city limits.
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(e) Failure to Pay Fee. Failure to the applicant to p~y
any fee provided for above within ten days after receiving due
notice from the City Collector shall have the effect of rendering
void all agreements aetween the applicant and the City relating
to fire protection.
2.20.050
Mutual Aid Agreements.
The fire chief may provide mutual fire fighting aid at the
request of the chief of the fire department of any incorporated
city or town to alarms on such cities or towns. Further, the
chief of the fire department may approve written agreements with
unincorporated communities within a ten-mile radius of the city
limits of Jacksonville, provided such communities maintain in
service quality fire fighting equipment capable of mutually aiding
the City of Jacksonville. This section is intended to include
volunteer fire departments within a ten-mile radius of the City
of Jacksonville.
2.20.060
Adoption by Reference.
This ordinance is enacted pursuant to Ark. Stat. Ann. S 19-
2106 (Repl. 1968). The provisions of Ark. Stat. Ann. ~ 19-2107
(Repl. 1968) and 19-2106.1, 2106.2 (Cum. Supp. 1977) are hereby
incorporated and made applicable to the Fire Department of'the
City of Jacksonville and to the City of Jacksonville.
SECTION 2: All ordinances before mentioned are hereby
repealed to the extent of such conflict.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 18th DAY OF October
, 1979.
CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS
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