No Fire Department apparatus shall be taken beyond the corporate limits of the City to assist of any fire or for any other purpose, except by order of the mayor or Fire Chief or such other person as they may designate, and subject to the restrictions and conditions hereinafter set forth.
The Mayor or Fire Chief or such other person as they may designate are authorized, in their discretion, to aid in the extinguishing of fires in another City (or town), public institutions, corporation, or other properties within a reasonable distance from the City or on property immediately adjacent to the City in which there is a possibility of fire spreading within the corporate limits, under the following conditions:
A. 
A request from a City or incorporated town for assistance must come only from the Mayor, Fire Chief or such other person as may be designated by mutual agreement.
B. 
Calls may be responded to only by such apparatus which in the judgment of the Mayor or Fire Chief or such other person as they may designate can be safely sent without unduly impairing the fire protection within the City, and when highways and weather conditions are favorable.
C. 
The City, incorporated town, public institution, corporation, or individual requesting assistance must pay the charge for apparatus and service hereinafter provided unless there exists a mutual aid agreement.
D. 
The City, incorporated town, public institution, corporation or individual must compensate the City for any loss or damage to such apparatus while answering such call, and be responsible to the members of the fire department of the City for any injuries suffered or incurred by them while responding to such calls and while working at such fire, unless otherwise covered by insurance.
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See A.C.A. § 14-53-101. For statute relating to fire services outside corporate limits, see A.C.A. § 14-53-102.
Unless there exists a mutual aid agreement, every municipality, institution, corporation or individual requesting and receiving service of the Fire Department of the City, shall pay for such service and the use of apparatus as follows:
Pumper: $50, within two miles of station; $5 additional for each mile or fraction thereof.
Each person, City, firm or corporation receiving service of the Fire Department, unless there exists a mutual aid agreement, shall pay to the City for each fire driver a sum representing $3 per hour or part thereof from the time the apparatus leaves the fire house until it returns thereto, and as to each fireman helping at the fire, a sum representing $3 per hour or part thereof, from the time he reports until the time his service ends. The payments herein stipulated shall be made to the City Treasurer within 15 days after demand.
The Mayor and Chief of the Fire Department, are hereby authorized to enter into mutual aid agreements, with other municipalities, firms, corporations or individuals, for the rendering of fire service, subject to the following conditions:
A. 
That the parties with whom such mutual aid agreements are entered into shall agree to indemnify the City against any or all loss, cost and damage which it may suffer or sustain by reason of damage to any apparatus arising from any cause whatsoever while such apparatus is going to or from the scene of the fire or while at the scene of the fire. The duty to indemnify shall be performed within 15 days after demand.
B. 
As to each fire driver injured while driving to or from the fire, or while at the scene of the fire, and as to each fireman helping at the fire, injured between the time he reports to the foreman of his company and the time his service ends, the person entering into such mutual aid agreements shall pay within 15 days after demand to the City a sum sufficient to cover the medical and hospital expenses by such injured driver or fireman.
Money collected under the terms of § 1.28.03 of this chapter shall be paid to the respective fire drivers and firemen as to whom such collections were made, and in proportion to the amount of time applicable to them respectively.