Legislative purpose

For the purpose of enabling cities or counties, or parts thereof, to provide emergency ambulance service to assure public safety and welfare the General Assembly does hereby allow all of the territory coterminous with the boundaries of a city or county, or coterminous with the boundaries of two (2) or more cities or counties contiguous to each other, to be organized into an emergency ambulance service district for the purpose of financing and administering emergency ambulance service for the residents of the district, and further does hereby allow an unincorporated area within a county that is contiguous with the boundaries of an existing ambulance district within that county to become part of that ambulance service district.