For the prevention and control of fires, the Town of Cavendish may function with volunteer firefighter districts. At present there are two:  one in the Proctorsville Village area, to be established by petition as an independent fire district as prescribed by 20 V.S.A. chapter 171, and one in Cavendish known as Fire District No. 2. Each group shall choose its own Chief and other officers and hold its own meetings, as well as service its own geographic district. Each district shall propose and ratify its own budget and duly administer and collect the same through a fire district tax pursuant to statute.