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Committee approves language to bar dual fire-service fees and allow outside residents to petition
Summary
A committee substitute for SB 601 would bar municipalities from imposing fire fees on residents outside municipal limits without county approval and give those residents the right to petition to force an election to reject such fees.
The Senate Government Organization Committee approved a committee substitute for Senate Bill 601 that would prohibit municipalities from imposing a fire service fee on residents or businesses outside municipal limits without approval from the county commission and would prevent a household from being charged both a municipal and county fire fee.
Counsel explained that the substitute aligns municipal protest rights with existing county protest procedures and reproduces the county protest language in the proposed statute. “So it’s virtually identical with the way in which you protest a county fire fee,” Counsel said, describing the protest mechanism and the petition threshold that triggers an election.
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