District 3 Mutual Aid AgreementMutual Aid Agreement • March 17th, 2015
In 2003, the Indiana General Assembly created a statewide mutual aid program by enacting IC 10- 14-3-10.6 and IC 10-14-3-10.7. The statewide mutual aid statutes automatically made each Indiana unit of government (county, city, town and township) a party to a Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement, subject to the ability of each unit to opt out of the agreement. IC 10-14-3-10.7 provides a standard allocation of responsibilities for the payment of compensation, benefits and the expenses of the joint effort. It also provides that any two or more participating units may enter into written agreements providing a different allocation of loss, damage, expense, labor or equipment costs, and