Sec. 674.209. - Local services; compensation, reimbursement.

(a) Whenever City employees are rendering aid outside the City pursuant to a mutual aid plan or interjurisdictional agreement, they shall have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities as if they were performing their duties within the City limits. Whenever volunteer or auxiliary emergency preparedness personnel are detailed to an emergency disaster support force outside the City, they shall have the same powers, duties and immunities as if they were performing their emergency preparedness duties within the City limits. (b) The City shall be liable for any loss or damage to any equipment provided by other jurisdictions and used by or in the City pursuant to a mutual aid plan or interjurisdictional agreement and shall pay any expense incurred in the operation and maintenance of the equipment; provided, that no claim by another jurisdiction shall be allowed unless, within 60 days after the loss, damage or expense is sustained or incurred an itemized notice of the claim, under oath, is served by mail or otherwise upon the Director of Finance and Administration. The City shall also reimburse another jurisdiction providing aid to the City for compensation (including compensation due to personal injury or death) paid to employees furnished as a part of the aid and shall defray the actual traveling and maintenance expenses of the employees while they are rendering aid, to the extent that the City does not provide transportation, meals and housing to the employees free of charge. The term employee, as used in this subsection, shall mean and include paid, volunteer and auxiliary employees and emergency preparedness workers actually provided by the other jurisdiction to aid the City. (c) In the case of City equipment provided to and used in another jurisdiction, loss or damage sustained and operation and maintenance expense incurred as a result of that use shall be itemized in a claim for compensation from the other jurisdiction, which shall be made under oath by the Chief from documentation provided by the appropriate City employees usually responsible for such equipment. The claim shall be served by mail or otherwise upon the chief fiscal officer of the other jurisdiction, and a copy shall be provided to the Director of Finance and Administration and the Council Auditor. The Chief shall report to the Mayor each instance of damage, loss or expense that is not reported to him within 60 days after it is sustained or incurred. In the case of emergency preparedness personnel furnished by the City to another jurisdiction, the administration and training service shall keep a record of the compensation (including compensation due to personal injury or death) paid to public employees who are a part of the emergency preparedness personnel so furnished and also a record of the actual traveling and maintenance expenses of all emergency preparedness personnel so furnished, while they are rendering aid to the other jurisdiction, to the extent that the other jurisdiction does not provide transportation, meals and housing to such emergency preparedness personnel free of charge. The Chief shall submit an itemized statement of these compensation, traveling and maintenance expenses to the other jurisdiction on whose behalf they were incurred as directed by the Mayor and furnish a copy of such statement to the Director of Finance and Administration and Council Auditor. (Ord. 79-1242-665, § 2; Ord. 83-591-400, § 1; Ord. 94-1272-768, § 4; Ord. 2016-140-E , § 16) Editor's note— Ordinance 2007-839-E, § 18, authorized updated department/division names pursuant to reorganization. Note— Former § 430.209.