7-32-235. Search and rescue units authorized -- under control of county sheriff -- optional funding. (1) A county may establish or recognize one or more search and rescue units within the county.
     (2) Except in time of martial rule as provided in 10-1-106, search and rescue units and their officers are under the operational control and supervision of the county sheriff, or the sheriff's designee, having jurisdiction and whose span of control would be considered within reasonable limits.
     (3) A county may, after approval by a majority of the people voting on the question at an election held throughout the county, levy an annual tax of not more than 1 mill on each dollar of taxable value of all taxable property within the county to support one or more search and rescue units established or recognized under subsection (1). The election must be held in conjunction with a regular or primary election.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 42, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 280, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 353, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 61, Ch. 387, L. 1995.