[Adopted 2-11-1935[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance appeared in Ch. VIII, Part 2B,
of the 1953 Code of Ordinances.
Hereafter none of the firefighting apparatus of the Borough
of Middletown shall leave the limits of the Borough of Middletown
to fight fires in any of the Boroughs or townships of the County of
Dauphin, or elsewhere, unless and until the proper authorities of
the Borough or township in which such fire or fires may take place
shall have first entered into written agreement with the Borough of
Middletown to pay for such service a stipulated sum annually, which
contract must be approved by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Middletown. The sum to be paid annually by each Borough or township
desiring to avail itself of the use of the fire apparatus of the Borough
of Middletown under this section shall be sufficient to reimburse
the Borough of Middletown for expenses incurred for such outside service
as shown by past experience.
Any Borough or township desiring to avail itself of the use
of any of the firefighting equipment of the Borough of Middletown,
or any unit thereof, shall not be entitled to receive such use or
to request such firefighting apparatus to leave the Borough of Middletown unless
and until such Borough or township shall first have entered into a
written agreement with the Borough of Middletown to pay for such use
the sum approved by the Borough Council of the Borough of Middletown
as aforesaid.
None of the aforesaid Boroughs or townships, after they have
entered into written agreements as hereinbefore provided, shall be
entitled to demand or receive the use of any of the firefighting apparatus
of the Borough of Middletown for the benefit of their respective citizens
at a time when said firefighting apparatus may be actually in use
or needed for fighting a fire within the limits of the Borough of
Middletown.
Any fire company located in the Borough of Middletown and receiving
an appropriation or other assistance from said Borough and violating
any of the regulations or requirements of this article shall forfeit
all or such part of its annual appropriation as the Borough Council
may determine as a penalty.
[Added 4-12-1949; amended 2-9-1953 by Ord. No. 311, approved 2-9-1953]
Any volunteer fireman of the Borough of Middletown who may be
injured or incapacitated while fighting a fire in the Borough of Royalton
or in any of the townships adjacent to the Borough of Middletown which
pays an annual sum to the Borough of Middletown for the use of said
Borough's firefighting equipment, if otherwise entitled to receive
the same, shall be entitled to receive for such injury or incapacity
proper legal remuneration, which shall be paid out of and from funds
paid to the Borough of Middletown by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
out of foreign fire insurance premiums.[1]
