MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT CLEARWATER/DUNEDIN
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AGREEMENT
MUTUAL AID
THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into by and between the City
of Clearwater, Florida, a municipal corporat~on, and the City of
Dunedin, Florida, a municipal corporation, in behalf of their
various departments and agencies involved in emergency public
safety services.
THE CITY OF CLEARWATER and the CITY OF DUNEDIN are experiencing
corrunon problems in those areas adjoining their contiguous bound-
aries and other areas within their corporate limits which require
mutual aid and cooperation between such Cities.
It is desirable that each of the parties hereto should voluntarily.
assist each other_in the event of disasters or emergencies by the
interchange of law enforcement services and facilities, to cope
with the problems of the emergency protection of life and property.
It is necessary and desirable that a cooperative agreement be ex-
ecuted for the interchange of such mutual aid on an inter-city
basis.
Chapter 163.01 Florida State Statutes, the Florida Interlocal
Cooperation Act of 1969, permits a municipal corporation to enter
into an agreement or compact with another municipal corporation
for mutual assistance.
THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority herein above s ,t forth and
in consideration of the mutual benefits to be derived by the City
of Clearwater and the City of Dunedin, it is hereby agreed by the
City Corrunission of the City of Clearwater and the City Corrunission
of Dunedin:
I. The parties shall act under a corrunon plan or plans.
Such plan or plans are a part of this agreement cover-
ing the exchange of law enforcement mutual aid services,
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resources, facilities, and related matters in behalf
of and between the City of Clearwater and the City of
Dunedin.
II. Each party agrees to furnish law enforcement mutual aia
. services, resources, and --facil-ities - in accordance with
the provisions of the Clearwater-Dunedin Law Enforcement
Mutual Aid Planas hereafter adopted and as it may be
revised.
III. Said Clearwater-Dunedin Law Enforcement.Mutual Aid Plan
shall include, but not be limited to such matters as
delineation of the law enforcement mutual aid procedures,
functions, duties and responsibilities, that shall apply
among the parties.
IV. The signatory cities, their political sub-divisions,
public agencies, and their officers or employees shall
not be liable for the exercise or performance or for
failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function
or duty in carrying out the terms of this agreement.
V. Inter.....city mutual aid requests will not be initiated
unless the requesting entity is committed to the mitiga-
tion of an incident or emergency, and other resources
within the city are not immediately available.
VI. It is understood that this agreement and the Clearwater-
Dunedin Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Plan adopted pursuant
thereto, shall not supplant existing statutes, ordinances,
or existing agreements.
VII. All law enforcement powers, all of the privileges and
immunities from liability, exemptions from law, ordinances,
and rules, all pension, relief disability, workman's
compen~ation, and other benefits which apply to the
activity of officers, agents, or employees when per-
forming their respective political sub-divisions, shall
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apply to them to the same degree and extent while engaged in
the performance of any of their functions and duties extra-
territorially under the provisions of this agreement.
VIII.
This agreement shall become effective when approved and
executed by the parties and shall remain effective between the
undersigned cities unless the City Manager, under the direction
of the City Commis sion, of one of the signatory cities files written
notice of termination of participation in this agreement with the
City Manager of the other signatory city. This agreement and all
common plans developed pursuant to this agreement will terminate
immediately upon receipt of such notice.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by the proper officials on the
dates stated below.
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