Section 53118 Of Article 6. Local Emergency Telephone Systems From California Government Code >> Division 2. >> Title 5. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 6.
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. The Legislature declares that a major purpose in enacting
this article is to eliminate instances in which a responding
emergency service refuses to render aid to the requester because the
requester is outside of the jurisdictional boundaries of the
emergency service. A public safety agency which receives a request
through the system for emergency services outside its jurisdictional
boundaries shall transmit the request to the proper public safety
answering point or public safety agency utilizing the methods
described in Sections 53103 to 53105, inclusive. In the event an
emergency unit is dispatched in response to a request through the
system, such unit shall render its services to the requesting party
without regard to whether the unit is operating outside its normal
jurisdictional boundaries until properly relieved by the public
safety agency responsible for that geographical area. Public agencies
within a single system and public agencies in different systems but
whose jurisdictional boundaries are contiguous are authorized to
enter into joint powers agreements or any other form of written
cooperative agreement to implement this requirement. These agreements
may further provide for a public safety agency to render aid outside
its normal jurisdictional boundaries when need arises on a
day-to-day basis.