CHAPTER 570
H.P. 1676 - L.D. 2342
An Act to Add Emergency Medical Services to the Municipal Fire Department Authority
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §3151, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read:
1. Municipal fire department. "Municipal fire department" means an organized firefighting unit established under municipal charter, ordinance or bylaw to prevent and extinguish fires and, if autho-rized by charter, ordinance or bylaw, to provide emergency services.
Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §3151, sub-§1-A is enacted to read:
1-A. Provide emergency services. "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.
Sec. 3. 30-A MRSA §3156, as amended by PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. A, §30 and Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read:
§3156. Fire aid to other municipalities
Unless otherwise provided by charter or ordinance, the municipal officers may authorize the municipal fire department to aid in extinguishing fires with any public safety emergencies in other municipalities by providing all the municipal fire department's available resources as needed. Municipal and volunteer firefighters 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 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.
Sec. 4. 30-A MRSA §5725, sub-§9, as amended by PL 1989, c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read:
9. Ambulance. Provide for a public ambulance ambulances and garage garages for it them, or support an ambulance service serving its residents;
Effective August 11, 2000, unless otherwise indicated.
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