Title 31 — COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW

31-3901. Authorization to establish ambulance service — Special levy. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the boards of county commissioners in the several counties are hereby authorized, whenever existing ambulance service is not reasonably available to the…

31-3902. County treasurers to establish ambulance service fund. The county treasurer of each county in which an ambulance service has been established pursuant to section 31-3901, Idaho Code, prior to July 1, 2020, shall establish a fund to be designated as the ambulance service …

31-3903. Ambulance service — Powers and duties of board of county commissioners. (1) The board of county commissioners shall determine the manner in which said ambulance service shall be operated and is empowered to make expenditures from the ambulance service fund for the purcha…

31-3904. Ambulance service — Fees. (1) The board of county commissioners shall adopt a schedule of fees to be charged for the use of ambulance service provided under the authority of section 31-3901, Idaho Code. All such fees shall be collected, accounted for and paid to the coun…

31-3905. Ambulance service — Operation dependent upon resolution of each city — Right to tax unaffected by nonservice. All cities and villages within the county, upon resolution duly passed and approved and presented to the board of county commissioners, may authorize said ambula…

31-3906. Ambulance service — cooperative agreements. The board of county commissioners of any county wherein such ambulance service has been established pursuant to section 31-3901, Idaho Code, prior to July 1, 2020, is authorized, in its discretion and under such terms and condi…

31-3907. Ambulance service — Termination of. Any county having adopted and established an ambulance service pursuant to section 31-3901, Idaho Code, prior to July 1, 2020, may terminate the same for good cause by the adoption of a resolution by the board of county commissioners. …

31-3908. Ambulance district authorized — districts formed before July 1, 2020. The provisions set forth in this section shall govern an ambulance district formed prior to July 1, 2020: (1) The county commissioners of any county shall, upon petition signed by not less than fifty (…

31-3908A. Exemptions from taxation. The board of county commissioners, upon application, may, by an ordinance enacted by not later than the second Monday of July, exempt all or a portion of the unimproved real property within the district from taxation, and may exempt all or a po…

31-3909. Immunity of ambulance attendant. No action shall lie or be maintained for civil damages in any court of this state against any person or persons, or group of persons, including ambulance attendants employed by an ambulance service district, who offers and administers fir…

31-3910. Consent for emergency medical treatment. The authorization or refusal of consent for emergency medical treatment under chapter 39, title 31, Idaho Code, shall be governed by chapter 45, title 39, Idaho Code.

31-3911. ambulance service district — districts formed on and after July 1, 2020. The provisions of sections 31-3911 through 31-3922, Idaho Code, shall govern any ambulance service district formed on and after July 1, 2020: (1) A petition to form an ambulance service district mus…

31-3912. ambulance service district commissioners — subdistricts — Term of office — Vacancies. (1) At the meeting of the board of county commissioners at which the ambulance service district is declared organized, as provided in section 31-3911, Idaho Code, the county commissione…

31-3913. Organization of board — Meetings — Officers — Official bonds. (1) Immediately after qualifying, the board of ambulance service commissioners shall meet and organize as a board and, at that time and whenever thereafter vacancies in the respective offices may occur, they s…

31-3914. Corporate powers and duties of board of ambulance service commissioners. A board of ambulance service commissioners shall have discretionary powers to manage and conduct the business and affairs of the district. The discretionary powers shall include but not be limited t…

31-3915. Levy — election. (1) Each year, immediately prior to the annual county levy of taxes, the board of commissioners of each ambulance service district organized under section 31-3911, Idaho Code, may levy a tax upon all the taxable property within the boundaries of such dis…

31-3916. Duties of county commissioners. The board of county commissioners, at the time of making the annual county levies, shall make a levy upon all the taxable property not exempt from taxation within each district within the county in the same amount as the levy made by the b…

31-3917. Handling of district funds. (1) The tax receipts collected by the county as provided for in section 31-3916, Idaho Code, and other funds shall immediately be paid over by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the ambulance service district, who shall deposit the same …

31-3918. Indebtedness prohibited — Exceptions. The board of commissioners of an ambulance service district organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall have no power to incur any debt or liability, except as otherwise provided in this section: (1) In the first year …

31-3919. Carry over — Fund balance. The board of commissioners of an ambulance service district may accumulate fund balances at the end of a fiscal year and carry over those fund balances into the following fiscal year budget for equipping and maintaining the district. As used in…

31-3920. Inclusion, annexation, or withdrawal of area in cities within an ambulance service district. Except as otherwise provided in section 50-224, Idaho Code, any area embraced within the limits of any city may, with the consent of the governing boards of such city and the res…

31-3921. intra-agency and mutual aid agreements. Ambulance service districts shall have all of the powers given to political subdivisions of the state of Idaho as set forth in section 67-2339, Idaho Code, and sections 67-2326 through 67-2333, Idaho Code, inclusive, to enter into …

31-3922. dissolution. Dissolution of any ambulance service district organized under the provisions of section 31-3911, Idaho Code, may be initiated by a petition signed by at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the qualified electors within the ambulance service district, requesti…