CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF COMSTOCK

ORDINANCE NO. 421

AMENDMENT TO FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES CHARGES ORDINANCE

ADOPTED: MARCH 7, 2005

EFFECTIVE: IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING PUBLICATION

AFTER ADOPTION

An Ordinance to amend the Comstock Charter Township Fire and Emergency Services Charges Ordinance (Ordinance No. 361) so as to establish charges for certain additional Township emergency services; and to repeal all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith.

THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF COMSTOCK

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MICHIGAN

ORDAINS:

SECTION I

AMENDMENT TO FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES CHARGES ORDINANCE

Section III of the Comstock Charter Township Fire and Emergency Services Charges Ordinance (Ordinance No. 361) hereby amended to read as follows:

SECTION III

SERVICES FOR WHICH CHARGES ARE IMPOSED

The above-referenced charges shall be imposed for Fire Department and other Township services rendered in response to the following types of emergency incidents:

A) False alarm (i.e., an emergency services call to a site when no actual emergency exists), if there have been three (3) or more prior false alarm calls to the same property within the past year.

B) Incident involving spills onto a public or private road by a vehicle or trailer of non-hazardous materials [i.e., materials that are not “hazardous materials” as defined under the Comstock Charter Township Hazardous Materials Costs Recovery Ordinance (Ordinance No. 342)] of such quantity as to require Fire Department assistance in either removing the material from the road or in limiting access to the road until the material is removed.

C) Fires caused by the illegal presence at the site of (1) methamphetamine or any other controlled substance as defined under MCL 333.7104(2) or (2) chemicals and/or equipment being used for the illegal production of such a controlled substance.

D) Emergency Fire Department standby requested by the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department or other law enforcement agency at a site where methamphetamine or any other controlled substance as defined under MCL 333.7104(2) is being illegally kept or produced.

SECTION II

SEVERABILITY

The provisions of this Ordinance are hereby declared to be severable. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or subsection is declared void or inoperable for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other part of portion thereof.

SECTION III

EFFECTIVE DATE AND REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES

This Ordinance shall take effect immediately following its publication after adoption. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Anna L. Goodsell, Clerk

Charter Township of Comstock