The Department shall be known as the "City of Nekoosa Volunteer
Fire Department" and shall consist of the Fire Chief, an Assistant
Fire Chief, and one Captain and one Lieutenant for each company, and
such subordinates as may be authorized by the Council.
The Department shall be governed by the bylaws of the Department,
City ordinances and resolutions, and the Wisconsin Statutes. Bylaws
adopted by the Department membership shall not be operative until
approved by the Council.
The Fire Chief shall have the power to suspend, demote, expel
or otherwise discipline members of the Department, subject to appeal
to the Council.
The Fire Chief shall file with the City Clerk, by October 1
of each year, a detailed estimate of the appropriations needed for
the conduct of the Department during the ensuing fiscal year.
No person shall permit any wastepaper, empty boxes, excelsior
or other similar inflammable materials to collect or remain upon the
premises owned or occupied by said person, on the outside of any building
or placed in any public street or alley, unless the same shall be
contained within a covered fireproof container.
All gasoline stations, bulk gasoline storage facilities, and
any facility for storing benzene, naphtha or any other volatile liquid
shall be constructed and maintained in conformity with the regulations
prescribed by the state statutes and the rules and regulations of
the State Department of Safety and Professional Services.
No person shall keep or store more than 10 pounds of gunpowder
at any place within the City without the written permission of the
Fire Chief. Any dealer permitted to keep at his place of business
in excess of 10 pounds of gunpowder shall not keep more than 200 pounds
at any one time, and such gunpowder shall be kept in a safely constructed
box, painted yellow, with the word "powder" printed or painted thereon
in black letters not less than five inches in height, and equipped
with handles so that the same may be readily moved in case of fire,
and such box shall be kept in such part of the dealer's place
of business as may be directed by the Fire Chief.
No person shall keep or store within the City any nitroglycerine,
dynamite, giant powder or other explosives more violent than gunpowder
without the written permission of the Fire Chief or otherwise than
in accordance with the conditions prescribed in such permission as
granted, and in no case shall more than 50 pounds of any such explosive
be stored or kept within 300 feet of any dwelling or other occupied
building. The Fire Chief may direct the placement and the manner of
keeping the same and the precautions to be observed in connection
therewith.
The officers and members of the Fire Department, with their
fire equipment of every kind, when going to or on duty at a fire,
shall have the right-of-way over all other vehicles upon City streets,
and the operator of any other vehicle, whether motor or otherwise,
upon the approach of such fire apparatus, shall immediately drive
such other vehicle as far as possible to the right of the thoroughfare
and shall keep such vehicle stationary until such fire apparatus shall
have passed. Except when actually responding to a fire alarm or other
emergency call, or when on duty at a fire, the apparatus and vehicles
of the Fire Department shall, however, have no special right-of-way
or other privileges of any kind, but shall be subject to all traffic
regulations applicable to other vehicles.
All volunteer firemen, when responding to a fire call with a
private vehicle, shall comply with all traffic regulations.
[Amended by Ord. No. 527]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the Chief of the Fire Department or the Council or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed therein, shall be subject to a penalty as provided in §
25.04 of this Code. The application of the above penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions, as provided in §
5.09(4) of this Code.