[Adopted 7-3-1974 as Ord. No. 252[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: Section 1 of this ordinance
provided that the ordinance heretofore adopted on December 12, 1973
(Ord. No. 246), is hereby rescinded; provided, however that appointments
made thereunder and permissions obtained pursuant thereto shall remain
in full force and effect.
A Junior Firemen's Auxiliary to the Carneys
Point Township Fire Company is hereby established pursuant to provisions
of N.J.S.A. 40A:14-95 et seq. and subject to the supervision of said
Fire Company and its Chief. The members of said Auxiliary shall be
known as "junior firemen."
Junior firemen shall meet all of the qualifications
of regular firemen except that they need only have reached the age
of 16 years and may be no older than 21 years of age.
Said junior firemen, before being considered
for membership, must obtain permission to join the Auxiliary from
their parents or guardian and must submit to the Fire Company said
permission in writing and acknowledged or approved in the manner required
by law for deeds to real estate to be recorded.
Members of the Auxiliary shall be insured by
the same coverage and in the same amounts provided for the regular
volunteer firemen of Carneys Point Township.
Every person seeking to become a junior fireman
must apply and be selected in the same manner as regular firemen.
Junior members are limited in number on the
fire trucks when responding to a fire to two members per truck. Senior
members have priority over the junior members on the fire trucks.
Qualified junior members are limited in the
ambulance to one, and then only as an observer.
No junior members will be permitted to drive
any fire equipment.
