All wage and disability payments, pension payments, damage to equipment and clothing, medical expense, and expenses of travel, food, and lodging shall be paid by the municipality regularly employing such law enforcement officer. Upon making such payments, the municipality that furnished the services shall, when it so requests, be reimbursed by the municipality whose authorized official requested the services out of which the payments arose. Each such municipality is hereby expressly authorized to make such payments and reimbursements notwithstanding any provision in its charter or ordinances to the contrary.