[Adopted 9-3-1968]
A Fire Department of the Township of Readington in the County of Hunterdon,
State of New Jersey, is hereby established.
Said Fire Department shall be known as the "Readington Township Fire
Department."
The East Whitehouse Fire Company, Inc.; Readington Fire Company, Inc.;
Three Bridges Volunteer Fire Company, Inc.; and Whitehouse Fire Company No.
1, Inc., are hereby made and established as said Fire Department.
The Township Committee may adopt rules and regulations for the conduct,
control and duties of the Chief of said Fire Department. The Chief of each
fire company which shall constitute the Fire Department shall meet within
30 days of the effective date of this article and elect from among themselves
an Acting Chief of the Readington Township Fire Department, and thereafter
in the month of January 1969 they shall meet again and elect annually in January
and name the new Acting Chief, who shall be from one of the companies not
previously having the Acting Chief. After the first four Acting Chiefs, the
appointment shall be on a rotating annual term, with the Acting Chief being
elected in the same order as were the first four.
When rules and regulations affecting this article are passed, they shall
be passed only upon written notice to all fire companies, and any amendments
thereinafter made to these rules and regulations may only be made upon 30
days' prior written notice to all fire companies.
