KRS 75.050: Contracts by fire units or districts, cities and counties, for fire protection.

Any fire protection district created as provided in KRS 75.010, and any fire protection

district or fire prevention district hereafter created pursuant to present or future law, and

any municipal corporation, volunteer fire department, volunteer fire prevention unit, or

volunteer fire protection unit, may, through its governing body, make and enter into

contracts with any other fire protection district, fire prevention distr ict, municipal

corporation, volunteer fire department, volunteer fire prevention unit, or volunteer fire

protection unit, either within the same county or within an adjoining county in an area

adjacent to the boundary line between the counties, for the fur nishing or receiving of fire

protection services for all property within the confines of the area included in and covered

by the contract or contracts, where such fire protection is not otherwise provided by some

division of government or governmental agen cy. Similar contracts may be made and

entered into between any county and an adjoining county, or between any county and any

one (1) or more municipalities or districts, departments or units of the character above

mentioned, located either within the count y or within an adjoining county in an area

adjacent to the boundary line between the counties. The personnel and equipment of a

contracting party, in going to and returning from a fire, or in answering and responding to

a false fire alarm or call, and whil e endeavoring to extinguish fires within the area

covered by the contract, shall be deemed and hereby is declared to be engaged in the

exercise of a governmental function.