A local government
may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other Act
—
(a)
purchase and maintain appliances, equipment, and apparatus for the prevention,
control and extinguishment of bush fires;
(b)
clear a street, road or reserve vested in it or under its control, of bush,
and other inflammable material, for the purpose of preventing the occurrence
or spread of a fire;
[(c) deleted]
(d)
establish and maintain bush fire brigades as a part of its organisation for
the prevention, control, and extinguishment of bush fires;
(e) use
any vehicle in controlling or extinguishing a bush fire or in the attempting
so to do but the local government must pay to the owner or hirer of the
vehicle, in respect of any damage done to a tyre of that vehicle while it was
being so utilized, an amount assessed by an employee of the local government
authorised by it to assess the cost of that damage;
(f)
assist the occupier of farm lands within its district to acquire appliances,
equipment and apparatus for the prevention, control, and extinguishment of
bush fires upon or threatening his land, including the sale, loan or exchange
to the occupier of appliances, equipment and apparatus belonging to the local
government.
[Section 36 amended: No. 11 of 1963 s. 17; No. 51
of 1979 s. 5; No. 60 of 1992 s. 19; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 57 of 1997
s. 26(2).]
[ 37. Deleted: No. 28 of 2016 s. 5.]