The Irish Beach Water District may acquire, construct, and operate facilities for providing fire protection to the district and its inhabitants, including buildings, engines, hose, hose carts, or carriages, and other appliances and supplies for the full equipment of a fire company or department.

The Irish Beach Water District for the purpose of providing fire protection services may exercise any of the powers, functions, and duties which are vested in, or imposed upon, a fire protection district pursuant to the Fire Protection District Law of 1987, Part 3 (commencing with Section 13800) of Division 12 of the Health and Safety Code.

If the district includes any part of a city, fire protection district, or other local agency which provides fire protection service to any territory in the district, or if the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection provides fire protection service to any territory in the district, the district shall have no authority pursuant to this section regarding the prevention and suppression of fires in these territories, unless the district has obtained the consent of the city, fire protection district, other local agency, or the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

The provisions of this section are necessary because of the great need for fire protection services within the area of the Irish Beach Water District. There is no other local governmental entity willing to provide this service to the people of the district. This problem is not common to all districts formed under this division. It is therefore hereby declared that a general law cannot be made applicable and that the enactment of this section as a special law is necessary for the solution of problems existing in the Irish Beach Water District.

(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1013, Sec. 19.)