The Fire Department of the Borough is hereby created and established
with jurisdictional boundaries coextensive with the boundaries of the Borough.
The Fire Department of the Borough shall consist of one Chief, one Assistant
Chief, one Captain, one First Lieutenant, one Second Lieutenant, and all other
officers and firemen as may be deemed necessary by the Fire Department, and
selected thereby with the approval of the Council.
[Amended by Ord. No. 293]
A. Established. There is hereby created within the Fire
Department the position of junior fireman.
B. Qualifications. Any person who need not be a resident
of the Borough and who is at least 16 years of age, and less than 18 years
of age, may become a junior fireman.
[Amended by Ord. No. 466]
C. Application. Any person desiring to become a junior fireman
should make application to the Chief of the Fire Department and shall complete
an application therefor, which application shall be approved by the Mayor
and Council. There shall also be attached parental approval from the parents
of the proposed junior fireman, and the application, together with a medical
examination report, shall be referred to the Mayor and Council for their approval
and designation of such applicant as a junior fireman.
D. Adult membership. When a junior fireman becomes 18 years
old, such junior fireman shall no longer be a junior fireman but may apply
to the Fire Department for membership in the Department.
E. Provision for training. The Mayor and Council, upon application
of the Fire Department, may make provision for the training of those persons
designated as junior firemen.
[Amended 6-24-1998 by Ord.
No. 546; 4-25-2001 by Ord.
No. 586]
All members within the six classifications aforementioned and any person
who may hereinafter become a member of the Fire Department shall be required,
as an integral part of their membership therein, to actively attend and participate,
in addition to the duties heretofore established by rule or custom, in all
parades, social functions, affairs, special events, and any and all other
types of activities not specifically enumerated herein, whenever the participation
by the Fire Department in such event or activities shall be ordered by the
Fire Chief or the officers of the Department, as the case may be. The failure
of any member to attend and participate in such event or activities shall
subject the member to like disciplinary action for failure to conform to other
duties herein, unless the member shall be duly excused from participation
therein.
[Added 5-24-2000 by Ord.
No. 571]
A. The duties of the fire police, subject to the supervision
of the aforesaid, shall be to:
(1) Protect property and contents.
(2) Establish and maintain fire lines.
(3) Perform such traffic duties as necessary, from the fire
station to and at the vicinity of the fire, fire drill or other emergency
call, until the arrival of a duly authorized police officer or at any public
event where fire police services may be requested to protect the public, subject
to the approval of and supervision by the chief law enforcement officer of
the municipality in which the public event takes place, or the Superintendent
of State Police if the municipality does not have a Police Department.
(4) In the absence of investigating authorities, fire police
shall investigate all causes of fires and preserve all evidence pertaining
to questionable fires and turn evidence over to proper investigating authorities.
(5) Wear the authorized fire police badge on the left breast
of the outermost garment while on duty.
B. Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall
give the fire police or any of them the right to supersede a duly authorized
police officer.
C. If any person shall unreasonably refuse to obey the orders
of the fire police, a fire police officer may arrest him or her and keep him
or her under arrest until the fire is extinguished or the drill completed.
If the offender is found guilty by a municipal court or Superior Court, he
or she shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding $200 and costs.
The government and management of the Fire Department shall be according
to the constitution, bylaws and rules which may be adopted by the Department,
and approved by the Board of Fire Officers, provided the same shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter and such rules and regulations
for the organization and efficiency of the Fire Department which may be adopted
from time to time by the Council.
The officers and members of the Fire Department of the Borough shall
at all times be subject to and under the control of such rules and regulations
as the Council may from time to time adopt.