by law, including physical and age requirements, and all
employment requirements prescribed by the fire department.
(2) Contract with a municipality in the township or in a
contiguous township that maintains adequate firefighting or
emergency services apparatus and equipment to provide fire
protection or emergency services for the township in accordance
with IC 36-1-7.
(3) Cooperate with a municipality in the township or in a
contiguous township in the purchase, maintenance, and upkeep of
firefighting or emergency services apparatus and equipment for
use in the municipality and township in accordance with
IC 36-1-7.
(4) Contract with a volunteer fire department that has been
organized to fight fires in the township for the use and operation
of firefighting apparatus and equipment that has been purchased
by the township in order to save the private and public property
of the township from destruction by fire, including use of the
apparatus and equipment in an adjoining township by the
department if the department has made a contract with the
executive of the adjoining township for the furnishing of
firefighting service within the township.
(5) Contract with a volunteer fire department that maintains
adequate firefighting service in accordance with IC 36-8-12.
(b) This subsection applies only to townships that provide fire
protection or emergency services or both under subsection (a)(1) and
to municipalities that have all some part of the municipal territory
completely within a township and do not have a full-time paid fire
department. A township may provide fire protection or emergency
services or both without contracts inside the corporate boundaries of
the municipalities if before July 1 of a year the following occur:
(1) The legislative body of the municipality adopts an ordinance
to have the township provide the services without a contract.
(2) The township legislative body passes a resolution approving
the township's provision of the services without contracts to the
municipality.
In a township providing services to a municipality under this section,
the legislative body of either the township or a municipality in the
township may opt out of participation under this subsection by adopting
an ordinance or a resolution, respectively, before July 1 of a year.
(c) This subsection applies only to a township that:
(1) is located in a county containing a consolidated city;
(2) has at least three (3) included towns (as defined in
IC 36-3-1-7) that have all municipal territory completely within
the township on January 1, 1996; and
(3) provides fire protection or emergency services, or both, under
subsection (a)(1);