[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of
the Village of Mazomanie 6-28-1988 as §§ 3-2-1, 3-2-3
and 3-2-9 of the 1988 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Mazomanie Fire Department is hereby officially
recognized and the duty of conducting the Fire Department is hereby
delegated to such organization, and its organization and internal
regulations shall be governed by the constitution and bylaws of that
organization, insofar as they do not conflict with the provisions
of this chapter.
The Mazomanie Fire Department is hereby authorized
and directed to adopt bylaws for the control, management and government
and for the regulation of business and proceedings of the Department,
which bylaws, after adoption by a two-thirds vote of the members of
the Department, shall not become effective and operative until presented
to and approved by the Village Board. Amendments shall be adopted
in the same manner.
The officers and members of the Fire Department
shall receive such compensation from the Village Board as may from
time to time be fixed by the Village Board.
A.
The Village Board shall appropriate funds to provide
for operation and for such apparatus and equipment for the use of
the Fire Department as it may deem expedient and necessary to maintain
efficiency and properly protect life and property from fire.
B.
Not later than October 1 of each year, the Chief shall
file with the Village Administrator or Village Clerk-Treasurer a detailed
estimate of the appropriations needed for the conduct of the Department
during the ensuing fiscal year.
[Amended 8-22-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-1]
A.
The Chief and assistants or officers in command at
any fire are hereby vested with full and complete police authority
at fires. Any officer of the Department may cause the arrest of any
person failing to give the right-of-way to the Fire Department in
responding to a fire.
B.
The Fire Chief may prescribe certain limits in the
vicinity of any fire within which no persons, excepting firemen and
policemen and those admitted by order of any officer of the Department,
shall be permitted to come.
C.
The Chief shall have the power to cause the removal
of any property whenever it shall become necessary for the preservation
of such property from fire or to prevent the spreading of fire or
to protect the adjoining property, and during the progress of any
fire he shall have the power to cause the removal of all wires or
other facilities and the turning off of all electricity or other services
where the same impedes the work of the Department during the progress
of a fire.
A.
Acting as Fire Inspector or Assistant Fire Inspector
pursuant to § 101.14(2), Wis. Stats., the Fire Chief, or
any officer of the Fire Department designated pursuant to the Department's
bylaws, shall have the right and authority to enter any building or
upon any premises in the Village at all reasonable hours for the purpose
of making inspections or investigations which, under the provisions
of this Code, he may deem necessary.
B.
The Chief of the Fire Department is required, by himself
or by officers or members of the Fire Department designated by him
as Fire Inspectors, to inspect all buildings, premises, and public
thoroughfares, except the interiors of private dwellings, for the
purpose of ascertaining and causing to be corrected any conditions
liable to cause fire, or any violations of any law or ordinance relating
to the fire hazard or to the prevention of fires. Fire Inspectors
shall be selected pursuant to the bylaws of the Department. Such inspections
shall be made at least once in six months in all of the territory
served by such Fire Department, and not less than once in three months
in such territory as the Village Board has designated or hereafter
designates as within the fire limits or as a congested district subject
to conflagration, and more often as the Chief of the Fire Department
orders. Each six-month period shall begin on January 1 and July 1
and each three-month period on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October
1 of each year.
C.
Written reports of inspections shall be made and kept
on file in the office of the Chief of the Fire Department in the manner
and form required by the Department of Commerce. The Fire Chief shall
make semiannual reports to the Village Board on Departmental concerns
and fire inspections. Citations may be issued for violations.[1]
A.
The Fire Chief shall have control of all apparatus
used by the Department and shall be responsible for its proper maintenance.
Emergency repairs may be authorized by the Chief.
B.
No apparatus shall be used for any purpose except
for fire fighting within the Village limits, or in training therefor,
except pursuant to a mutual aid or other such agreement approved by
the Village Board after the Chief has given his recommendations on
such use. With the approval of the Chief such apparatus may be used
for emergency purposes other than fire fighting within the Village.
