Other Languages(1) Where a fire protection district includes all or a portion of a municipality, the district is authorized to levy its full millage for 1959 on all property within the district including that within the municipality. (2) Where a municipality has incorporated after June 11, 1959, and under chapter 237, Laws of 1959, is automatically withdrawn from the fire protection district, the district may nevertheless levy its full millage on the entire district as it existed prior to the incorporation of the municipality.
The Washington industrial safety and health act (WISHA) is applicable to all volunteer firemen who are in any way monetarily compensated for their services as such ‑ including such compensation as is received by reason of their coverage as enrolled members of the volunteer firemen's relief and pension system.
Chapter 126, Laws of 1974, 1st Ex. Sess., does not authorize a board of fire commissioners to impose a service charge on real and personal property owned by the state or any county or other municipal corporation which is benefited by fire protection service offered by a fire protection district.
(1) A municipality owns the fire station, equipment and real property (a) when the municipality annexes all or a portion of a fire protection district wherein such property is located; (b) when an area comprising a portion of a fire protection district wherein such property is located incorporates as a municipality; and (c) when a municipality, or portion thereof, wherein such property is located is excluded from a fire protection district pursuant to section 6, chapter 237, Laws of 1959.
Where a portion of a fire protection district is annexed to a city or town, the property located in the area annexed remains subject to tax levies for payment of outstanding indebtedness (bonded or otherwise) of the district existing at the time of annexation unless the city or town elects to assume said indebtedness.
Mandatory one‑mill levy for fire district pension fund must be within millage limitations of RCW 52.16.130 and 52.16.140. Additional mill authorized by RCW 41.16.060 for that fund may exceed those limitations. Both such levies must be imposed if necessary to sustain the fund.
The offices of commissioner of a fire protection district and secretary of the district are incompatible.
A member of a fire department which is furnishing fire protection to a fire protection district may not simultaneously be a commissioner of the district since the two public offices are incompatible.