190.107. Contracts for mutual aid services. - Missouri Statutes

Contracts for mutual aid services.

190.107. 1. Any municipally operated ambulance service, ambulancedistrict, fire protection district that provides ambulance service or anyother ambulance service may enter into contracts providing for mutual aidservices provided by such ambulance service. The contracts that are agreedupon may provide for compensation from the parties and other terms that areagreeable to the parties and may be for an indefinite period as long asthey include a minimum of a sixty-day cancellation notice by either party.

2. Any municipally operated ambulance service, ambulance district,fire protection district that provides ambulance service or any otherambulance service may provide assistance to any other ambulance service inthe state that requests it, at the time of an emergency, major catastropheor any other unforeseen event or series of events which jeopardizes theability of the local ambulance service to promptly respond to emergencies.

3. When responding on mutual aid or emergency aid requests, theambulance service shall be subject to all provisions of law as if it wereproviding service within its own jurisdiction.

4. Mutual-aid contracts may be agreed to between ambulance servicesin the states neighboring Missouri and ambulance services in the state ofMissouri in the exact same manner as contracts between ambulance serviceswithin the state of Missouri.

(L. 1998 S.B. 743)