580501 DIr' iNCE # _5105._
AN 01'DIN_�NCE P'HGVIliING F01", THE FURNISHING OF THE FIB
FIGHTING FACILITIES OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK FCR THE
P= tiOTF;:JTION CF PROPERTY LOC4JED OUTaIDE OF THE CITY
LIMITS; SETTING UP _GUL TION3 UNDER `::HIGH SAIL' ? IHE
FIGHTING F CILIT IES _i ILL BE USLD; f U :TIDING FOR A
SCHEDULE OF C:Ir'. i ; , FOR SUCH t'_tOTECTION; AND FOR OTHER
F UF, PC) S�S
13E I'T` C:DiINED BY THE CITY C0U tiJIL OF THE CITY OF
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
4 SECTION 1. From and after the passage and approval of thi
Ordinance any person, firm or corporation within a radius of One
and one -half (I-�!A miles of the Jorporate limits of the Jity of
Little Rock is granted the privilege of applying to the City Coun
cil for limited fire fighting equipment protection. City Council
may at its discretion approve or reject any such application.
If the Jity Council approves an application, the fire fight
ing facilities of the City of Little Rock shall then be available
to such applicant, but they shall be available only upon the fol-
lowing conditions:
(1) An agreement shall be signed by the applicant which
agreement shall state that the City of Little Rock agrees to
furnish only limited fire fi,vhtin� equipment, and the applicant
shall agree that any _portion or all of this equipment may be re-
called at any time by the City ,%,hen in the judEment of the Chief
of the Fire Department that such equipment is necessary for fire
protection within the Jity of Little Hock. aaid agreement shall
further provide that the City does not unde ake to guarantee
fire fighting result, and offers only such reasonable equipment:
as is consistent v,�ith conditions prevailing at tie time, and the
applicant shall agree that no claims of any kind or nature shal"�tSZ "
ever be made against the City on any claim which might arise from
the use and /or operation of the equipment.
(2) The applicant shall pay in advance to the City
an annual ready to serve fee of One Hundred Dollars (;100.00) whe
the value of the property of the applicant is r."wenty -five Thousan
Dollars (;25,000.00) or less; an additional fee of Twenty -five
Dollars (;?;25.00) shall be charged for each Twenty -five Thousand
Dollars (.x25,000.00) value or fraction thereof .
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(3) The sole purpose of this Ordinance is to offer service
to separate values subject to fire damage, and the grouping of one
or more properties shall not be allowed for the purpose of this
Ordinance.
(4) In addition to the above fee the applicant shall pay
usage fee of Fifty Dollars (.;-'50.00) per hour or fraction thereof I
for each fire fighting company which responds to an alarm on the
premises of the applicant, whether the alarm is false or comes as
a result of a fire. Only one fire fighting company shall respond
to an alarm on the premises of any applicant unless the duly
authorized agent of the applicant request additional companies.
The Jity shall not be bound to dispatch any equipment unless the
equipment is available, and is not needed at the time for fighting
fire within the City limits.
(5) Failure of the applicant to pay any fee set out in
this Ordinance within ten days after receivin-- due notice from the
Collector
City liMMOV, shall void all agreements between the applic��nt and
the City.
SECTION 2. This Ordinance repeals Ordinance Nlo. 5676,
passed on the thy_ day of January, 193.
the City of 1,ittle dock is willing to
furnish fire fi6htin services to persons living outside tze ;ity,
when the ::ity can consistently do so, and said property owners are
desirous of eff ectind an arrangement of i,ind, an emergency is 1-:ere
by declared to exist, and this Ordinance is found to be necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public puce, health, and
safety, and the same shall be 1n full force and effect from and
after its passage and approval.
PASSED: ctober 23, 1939.
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C it y Clerk
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