[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Washington by Ord.
No. 1993-6. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 3-1-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02[1]]
The Township of Washington, in reliance upon the determination
that any volunteer fire company or ambulance squad which receives
regular funding contributions from a municipal government is a Municipal
Fire Department or an Emergency Squad of said municipality, does hereby
designate the Green Bank Volunteer Fire Company, Inc., the Lower Bank
Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. and the Green Bank Vol. Ambulance Squad
as the official municipal Fire Departments for the Township of Washington
subject to the limitations hereafter set forth.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also changed the chapter title
from "Fire Companies" to "Fire Companies, Emergency Squads."
[Amended 3-1-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02]
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring said
municipality to make any contributions to purchase any equipment for
or assert any control over the Volunteer Fire Departments or Emergency
Squads of the Township of Washington other than those annual contributions
determined in each municipal budget as the municipality's annual contribution
to said fire companies and such controls as are mandated by state
law.
[Amended 3-1-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-02]
It is the purpose of this chapter to establish the Green Bank
Volunteer Fire Company, Inc., and the Lower Bank Fire Company, Inc.,
as the Township's official volunteer fire companies and the Green
Bank Vol. Ambulance Squad as the official Ambulance Squad of the Township.
Each person seeking to join the Green Bank Volunteer Fire Company,
Inc., or Lower Bank Volunteer Fire Company, Inc., shall make application
to the fire company, and upon acceptance by the respective fire company,
he or she shall become a member in good standing of the Green Bank
Volunteer Fire Company, Inc., or Lower Bank Volunteer Fire Company,
Inc., after approval of his or her membership by the fire company.
His or her name shall be entered on a role of firemen kept by the
Township Clerk.
[Amended 12-13-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-06]
No person shall hereafter become a member of the Washington
Township Relief Association, unless at the time of appointment, such
person is above the age of 18 years and not over the age of 45 years,
a resident of this Township, and a citizen of the United States of
good moral character. He or she shall be physically fit to perform
the duties of a fire person as evidenced by a certificate to that
effect by a practicing physician of the State of New Jersey. This
certificate shall be provided at either the member's own expense or
the expense of the Green Bank Volunteer Fire Company, Inc., and/or
the Lower Bank Fire Company, Inc.
Upon adoption of this chapter, the Township Clerk is hereby
authorized and directed to forward a certified copy of this chapter
to the New Jersey State Firemen's Association.
