The authority of persons associated together to become incorporated as a charitable corporation for the purpose of providing either a volunteer or full-time fire department for an unincorporated area or place is hereby ratified and confirmed. Such a corporate fire department shall have authority to provide fire protective service both to its members and to nonmembers, either within or without the unincorporated area wherein it is situated.
Amended by Laws 1983, c. 100, § 17, emerg. eff. May 9, 1983.