The individual members of the part-paid and
volunteer Fire Department of the Township of Pennsauken shall be the
active fire brigade members of each of the volunteer fire companies
comprising said part-paid and volunteer Fire Department.
[Amended 3-23-2011 by Ord. No. 2011:07]
A.
No person
shall become a member of the Pennsauken Fire Department unless he
or she shall be at least 18 years of age and possess a high school
diploma or equivalency certificate and a citizen of the United States.
Such person shall be physically fit to perform the duties of a firefighter,
such fitness to be evidenced by a certificate to that effect from
a physician duly licensed to practice in the State of New Jersey.
B.
All applicants
shall live either within the Township of Pennsauken or within a one-mile
radius of the municipal boundary.
[Amended 8-24-2005 by Ord. No. 05-19; 3-23-2011 by Ord. No.
2011:07]
Records shall be kept of each member's attendance,
training and duty by the Battalion Fire Chief and Station Commander
of each station, and an annual report thereof shall be filed with
the Secretary of the Pennsauken Township Fireman's Relief Association
on or before February 1 of the following year. Such records shall,
from time to time, be subject to the inspection of the Director of
Public Safety, Fire Chief and Deputy Fire Chief.
Every person seeking to join the Department
shall make application to the company which that person desires to
join, and, upon election to membership in such company, he or she
shall become a member in good standing of the Department, after confirmation
and approval of such election by the Township Committee, and his or
her name shall be entered on a roll of fire fighters to be kept by
the Township Clerk. The person shall be given a badge of membership
in his or her company.
An exempt fire-fighter certificate will be issued
to members of the Department in the manner provided by law.
