Section 50. Fee on deployment of Fire and Emergency Service beyond the limits of the State

50. (1) Where employees of the Fire and Emergency Service are sent beyond the limits of any area in which this Act is in force, in order to extinguish a fire in the neighborhood of such limits on the request of any State Government or local body or Fire and Emergency Service authority shall be liable to pay such fee as may be prescribed by the State Government from time to time in this behalf. (2) The fee referred to in sub-section (1) shall be payable within one month of the service of a notice of demand by the Director General, Fire and Emergency Services to the concerned State Government or local body or Fire and Emergency Service authority, as the case may be, and if it is not paid within that period, it shall be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue.