I-6 - Resolution 2024-053 - Johnson County Mutual Aid 28E Agreement 2024

considered employees of any other jurisdiction, but rather shall be considered to be employees or volunteers of their member department as may be applicable. Each party hereto shall bear the liability and/or cost of damage to its member department’s equipment and the death of or injury to its member department’s personnel, whether the death, injury or damage occurs at an incident in the member’s own fire protection area, or in a first due area or fire protection area where the firefighter or emergency responder is working as a member of a responding department. Each party shall provide appropriate and reasonable insurance for its member department’s personnel who may suffer injury, disability, or death and/or are involved in loss or damage to private property, and/or death of or injury to private individuals in the performance of official duties while assisting another member department under the terms of this agreement, and shall supply proof of such reasonable insurance to the other parties hereto by providing a certificate thereof upon request. Each party hereto shall be responsible for defending against claims made against it or its member department or personnel and arising from its participation in this agreement. The parties hereto shall not be obligated by this agreement to defend against claims made against other parties hereto, or against the member departments or personnel of said parties. SECTION VIII. CITY, TOWNSHIP, DISTRICT SERVICE AGREEMENTS The cities, townships, emergency medical and/or fire districts, and independent fire districts which are parties hereto and which have fire protection agreements with each other wherein the township, emergency medical district, fire district, or independent fire district is a public safety provider for the respective city, agree to maintain such agreements in force, and to provide copies of same to the other parties upon request, and by promptly notifying in writing the other parties of any amendment, renewal, or termination of such agreements. In the event such an agreement lapses, there shall be no further obligation by the other parties hereto to respond to a request for assistance within the fire protection area covered by such lapsed agreement. SECTION IX. TERM OF AGREEMENT This agreement shall be in full force and effect upon execution by all parties hereto and the filing and recording thereof as provided in Section 12. The agreement shall have a term of five (5) years from the date of execution and thereafter shall continue in effect, automatically renewing in successive one-year increments. The agreement may be amended by agreement of all fire chiefs of the parties. Any party may withdraw from the agreement by giving thirty (30) days written notice to each of the other parties hereto by certified mail, in which case said notifying party shall be deleted from further operation of the agreement. SECTION X. ADMINISTRATION OF AGREEMENT This agreement shall be administered by the Johnson County Mutual Aid Association, which shall periodically review said agreement and attempt to resolve any problems which may arise in carrying out said agreement. No separate entity or agency is created by this agreement.