Township of Delaware, NJ
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2023-02-21
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 30 Fire Department
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 7 Traffic
- Ch 12 Claims, Payment of
- Ch 18 Court, Municipal
- Ch 23 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 30 Fire Department
- § 30-1 Established; title.
- § 30-2 Qualifications for members.
- § 30-3 Attendance and duty required.
- § 30-4 Application for membership; election.
- § 30-5 Exemption certificates.
- Ch 38 Health, Board of
- Ch 42 Insurance Fund
- Ch 45 Interlocal Services
- Ch 50 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 56 Officers and Employees
- Ch 61 Personnel
- Ch 66 Police Department
- Ch 74 Public Bidding
- Ch 78 Retirement Benefits
- Ch 84 Road Department
- Ch 90 Tort Claim Procedures
- Ch 93 Township Committee
- Ch 96 Utilities Authority
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Adult Bookstores
- Ch 107 Affordable Housing
- Ch 113 Alarm Systems
- Ch 118 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 124 Animals
- Ch 135 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 140 Burning, Open
- Ch 146 Checks, Returned
- Ch 158 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 162 Construction Record Clearance
- Ch 167 Driveways
- Ch 180 Energy Aggregation Program
- Ch 190 Fees
- Ch 197 Fire Prevention
- Ch 203 Floodplain Management
- Ch 209 Games of Chance
- Ch 220 Housing Standards
- Ch 226 Junkyards
- Ch 230 Land Use
- Ch 237 Littering
- Ch 246 Municipally Owned Property
- Ch 252 Noise
- Ch 260 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 265 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 268 Property Maintenance
- Ch 272 Quarrying
- Ch 278 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 289 Sewers
- Ch 295 Skateboards
- Ch 308 Solid Waste
- Ch 314 Special Road Events
- Ch 319 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 326 Taxation
- Ch 337 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 350 General Provisions
- Ch 355 Administration and Enforcement
- Ch 360 Animals
- Ch 366 Farmers' Market
- Ch 369 Food Establishments and Vending Machines
- Ch 375 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 381 Sewage Disposal
- Ch 388 Tobacco
- Ch 393 Underground Fuel Storage
- Ch 398 Water Systems, Noncommunity
- Appendix
- Ch A401 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A402 Municipally Approved Farmland Preservation Program (MAFPP)
- Ch A403 Water Franchise
- Ch A404 Communications Franchise
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Delaware 11-29-1954 (Sec. 2-5 of the 1985 Revised General Ordinances). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Length of service awards program — See Ch. 50.
There is hereby authorized and established the Delaware Township
Fire Department to be composed of one company, to be known as the
Sergeantsville Volunteer Fire Company, and such additional companies
as the Township Committee may authorize and approve.
[Amended 12-26-1972]
No person shall hereafter become a member of the Fire Department
of the Township, or any unit thereof, unless above the age of 18 and
not over the age of 40, a citizen of the United States, a resident
of the Township of Delaware, County of Hunterdon for upwards of one
year. He shall be physically fit to perform the duties of a fireman
evidenced by a certificate to that effect by a practicing physician
of the State of New Jersey, after physical examination for that purpose.
Every member of the Fire Department shall, in each year, perform
at least 60% of duty to be composed of actual attendance and duty
of fires and drills and a record shall be kept of such attendance
and duty by the Chief of the Fire Department and reported to the municipal
officers annually.
Every person seeking to join the Fire Department shall make
application to the company or unit which he desires to join, and upon
his election to membership by vote of a majority of the unit present
and voting, he shall become a member in good standing of the Fire
Department after approval of his membership by the Chief and confirmation
by the municipal officers and his name shall be entered on a roll
of firemen kept by the Township Clerk.
Exemption certificates may be issued to members of the Fire
Department who shall have served seven years in active duty under
municipal control, as required by law of April 29, 1935, as amended
May 26, 1936.
