19-13-210.

19-13-210.

19-13-203. Authorization to enter agreement; general content; authority.

(a) Any one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs or local government subdivision of this state may enter into a mutual aid agreement with any one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs or local government subdivisions of any other state or the United States to provide emergency services to the area covered by the agreement. The agreement shall be authorized and approved by the governing body of each party to the agreement that is not an agency of the United States government.

(b) The agreement shall fully set forth the powers, rights and obligations of the parties to the agreement.

(c) A mutual aid agreement shall grant a fire protection service, homeland security program or emergency medical care provider of this state authority to operate outside of the state and shall grant authority for a fire protection service, homeland security program or emergency medical care provider of another state or the United States to operate within this state as if the fire service, homeland security program or emergency medical care provider were organized and operated under the laws of this state.

19-13-204. Detailed content of agreement.

(a) The agreement authorized by W.S. 19-13-203 shall specify the following:

(i) The purpose of the agreement;

(ii) The precise organization, composition and nature of any separate legal entity created by the agreement;

(iii) The duration of the agreement;

(iv) The manner of financing the agreement and establishing and maintaining a budget therefor;

(v) Provision for administering the agreement;

(vi) The exact chain of command or delegation of authority to be followed by party emergency services acting under the provisions of the agreement;

(vii) The manner of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property used in the agreement;

(viii) The method to be employed in accomplishing the partial or complete termination of the agreement and for disposing of property upon partial or complete termination; and

(ix) The nature, extent and amount of insurance coverage for acts or omissions and delineation of each party's responsibility for that coverage.

19-13-205. Submission of agreement to attorney general.

(a) Before becoming effective, the agreement shall be submitted to and receive the approval of the state attorney general.

(b) The attorney general shall approve an agreement submitted to him under this act unless he finds that it is not in proper form, does not meet the requirements set forth in this act, or otherwise does not conform to the laws of this state. If he disapproves an agreement, he shall provide a detailed written statement to the appropriate governing bodies of the fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs and local government subdivisions.

(c) If the attorney general does not disapprove an agreement within sixty (60) days after its submission to him, it is considered approved.

19-13-206. Filing of agreement.

(a) Within twenty (20) days after approval by the attorney general, an agreement made pursuant to this act shall be filed in the office of:

(i) Each clerk and recorder of each county of this state where the principal office of one (1) of the parties to the agreement is located; and

(ii) The secretary of state.

19-13-207. Agreement not to relieve agency of duties.

No agreement made under this act may relieve any fire protection service, emergency medical care provider, homeland security program or local government subdivision of this state of a duty imposed upon it by law. Timely performance of a duty created by a mutual aid agreement may be offered in satisfaction of the duty.

19-13-208. Limitation of powers.

Except for the right granted by this act to jointly exercise powers, this act does not authorize any fire protection service, emergency medical care provider, homeland security program or local government subdivision of this state to exercise a power that it is not otherwise authorized to exercise.

19-13-209. Right of state in actions involving agreements.

In any case or controversy involving performance or interpretation of or liability under a mutual aid agreement entered into between one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs or local government subdivisions of this state and one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs or local government subdivisions of another state or of the United States, the parties to the agreement are the real parties in interest. This state may maintain an action against any fire protection service, emergency medical care provider, homeland security program or local government subdivision whose default, failure, performance or other conduct caused or contributed to a loss or liability incurred by the state.

19-13-210. Authorization to appropriate funds for purpose of agreement.

A fire protection service, emergency medical care provider, homeland security program or local government subdivision of this state may appropriate funds for and may sell, lease or otherwise supply material to any entity created for the purpose of performance of an agreement and may provide such personnel or services therefor as are within its authority to furnish.

ARTICLE 3 - SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS

19-13-301. Search and rescue account; created; expenditures.

(a) The search and rescue account is created. Fees identified in W.S. 23-2-101, 23-2-201, 31-2-234, 31-2-404,