Silver City Volunteer Fire Department

Silver City, Oklahoma

"If you page us, we will come."

Fire Subscription Information

As a fire department organized under Title 18 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the Silver City Volunteer Fire Department does not receive any direct tax support from the State of Oklahoma, Creek County, or any municipality. 

 

Title 18 fire departments are agents of the State of Oklahoma and are authorized by the State to charge fees for fire runs, and optionally to offer membership subscriptions to landowners and residents of the fire district.  Silver City Fire Volunteer Department has chosen to offer optional fire subscriptions.

Non subscribers who are landowners or residents of Silver City Fire District are subject to a $500 fee for each occurrence if dispatched by the 911 call centers in Creek County to an uncontrolled fire inside the fire district.  This fee is chargeable to the landowner or resident if fire suppression is performed on their property, regardless of how the fire started, or upon whose property it originated.  Issues concerning liability for damages (including fire run fees) connected with fires originating on another’s property are civil issues between landowners and/or residents in which the fire department is not a party.

 

Subscribers who are landowners or residents of Silver City Fire District will receive no invoice from Silver City Fire Department for fire response to their property or residence no matter how many times it is required during the subscription period.

 

Subscriptions are currently $48 per year.  Your $48 subscription will cover undeveloped property, or ONE residence or business on property on which there are more than one distinct separate residence or business.  Properties containing more than one residence or business require a separate subscription for each residence or business. 

 

Oil wells and tank batteries are the responsibility of the producers for fire run fees and subscription purposes.  One subscription covers one lease.

 

There are two ways to subscribe:

 

(recommended)

Upon request, Indian Electric Cooperative will collect $4 per month on behalf of the fire department by adding the fee to your monthly electric bill.  IEC remits a check once a month to the fire department for the total of all fees collected along with a file containing the names of the subscribers.

 

To subscribe through IEC, contact Teresa Robertson at 358-2514

 

 

(optional) 

You may remit directly to the fire department by check for yearly subscriptions in increments of $48 per year.

 

To subscribe by check , mail to:

Silver City Volunteer Fire Department

5550 South 433rd West Avenue

Jennings, OK 74038