§ 18-43. Establishment and administration of fire districts; costs defrayed by levy and collection of taxes; supplying water to fire hydrants.
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If the Board of Commissioners of Fulton County shall provide any fire prevention system
or any of the facilities of such a system in any unincorporated area of said county,
as authorized by this article, it shall establish and administer one or more fire
districts in such unincorporated area, and the full cost of establishing, maintaining
and operating any such system, or any of the facilities thereof, shall be defrayed
by the levy and collection of a tax or an assessment, or both, on the property or
property owners within each such district, without uniformity between districts, for
such purposes; provided the cost of installing, maintaining and supplying with water,
any fire hydrant which is an appurtenance of any water system, may be borne by Fulton
County out of any revenue of the county, either raised for such purpose, or which
is not specifically appropriated or required by law to be spent for some other purpose.
Such expense of installing, maintaining and supplying such fire hydrant with water
is hereby declared to be a matter in which all citizens of the county have an interest
and for which the county may contract, separately, or as a part of a contract for
water service, with any other county, or with any municipality, or may construct,
operate and supply same from its own resources and facilities without regard to the
limitations of this statute relating to firefighting and prevention systems.
