Borough of Fair Lawn, NJ
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2023-02-28
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Part I, Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 13 Fire Department
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Article IX Duties of Members
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administration, Departments and Budget and Fiscal Procedures
- Ch 4 Cable Television Board
- Ch 7 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 10 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 13 Fire Department
- Ch 13 Art IX Duties of Members
- § 13-41 Response to alarms.
- § 13-42 Attendance at company meetings.
- § 13-43 Notice of change of residence or extended absence.
- § 13-44 Taking command at fires in absence of superior.
- § 13-45 Duty to attend drills.
- § 13-46 Credit for attending alarms and drills.
- § 13-47 Misuse of badge as grounds for expulsion.
- § 13-48 Hours of duty.
- § 13-48.1 Notification of driving violations.
- Ch 16 Historian
- Ch 19 Housing Authority
- Ch 24 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 25 Volunteer Emergency Services Stipend Program
- Ch 30 Personnel
- Ch 33 Police Department
- Ch 39 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 42 Tort Claim Form
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 49 Affordable Housing
- Ch 53 Alarms, Burglar, Medical and Fire
- Ch 56 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 59 Amusement Devices
- Ch 62 Animals
- Ch 66 Automobile Dealers
- Ch 70 Bicycles
- Ch 74 Broadway Special Improvement District
- Ch 76 Business Hours
- Ch 85 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 86 Crane Regulations
- Ch 87 Distribution of Handbills, Circulars and Other Printed Materials
- Ch 90 Drive-Through Restaurants
- Ch 94 Fees
- Ch 97 Fences
- Ch 101 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 104 Fire Prevention
- Ch 108 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 111 Food Handling
- Ch 117 Heating
- Ch 120 Historical Properties
- Ch 124 Junkyards
- Ch 125 Land Development
- Ch 128 Laundries and Dry Cleaners
- Ch 129 Lawn Fertilizing
- Ch 131 Lead-Based Paint
- Ch 134 Library
- Ch 137 Licensing
- Ch 140 Littering
- Ch 144 Massage, Bodywork, and Somatic Therapy Establishments
- Ch 147 Motorized Scooters
- Ch 148 Murals
- Ch 150 Noise
- Ch 153 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 157 Parking on Posted Property
- Ch 160 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 162 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 163 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 166 Pesticides
- Ch 167 Planting or Growing Bamboo
- Ch 170 Property Maintenance
- Ch 173 Public Health Nuisances
- Ch 177 Rent Control
- Ch 180 River Road Special Improvement District
- Ch 183 Sales
- Ch 184 School Buses
- Ch 186 Secondhand Precious Metals and Gems
- Ch 189 Sewers
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 192 Sidewalk Sales
- Ch 200 Soil Removal
- Ch 204 Solid Waste
- Ch 205 Special Events
- Ch 208 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 213 Tattooing and Body Piercing Parlors
- Ch 215 Taxation
- Ch 216 Taxicabs and Limousines
- Ch 220 Tobacco
- Ch 223 Towing
- Ch 226 Trees
- Ch 230 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 232 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 236 Vehicles, Impoundment of
- Ch 241 Water
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
It shall be the duty of all firefighters to respond immediately
upon the sounding of any alarms.
It shall be the duty of each firefighter to attend the regular
firematic meetings of his/her company.
It shall be the duty of each member to notify the Secretary
of the company within 10 days of any change made in his/her residence
and, on leaving the Borough or contiguous municipality for a longer
period than 30 days, the firefighter shall notify the Secretary of
the company and obtain permission for such leave of absence. No leave
of absence shall continue for a longer period than one year.
On an alarm, the first firefighter arriving at the firehouse
may take command until the arrival of his/her superior officers, and,
in the event there is only one superior officer present, then the
firefighter is to take assistant command.
[Amended 5-12-2015 by Ord. No. 2350-2015]
It shall be the duty of each active member to attend a minimum
of one drill every two months and at least 12 drills a year. Drills
shall be called by the Chief of the Department or the Fire Company
Captain.
[Amended 5-12-2015 by Ord. No. 2350-2015]
Each active member of the Department shall attend and be in
actual recorded attendance and render fire service at not less than
15% of the regular alarms answered by the company of which he/she
may be a member during any calendar year. Active service years will
only accumulate when 30% is met.
Any member found guilty by the Fire Board of misusing his/her
badge shall be subject to expulsion. Such expulsion is to be confirmed
by the Mayor and Council.
Hours of duty shall be 24 hours a day, including Saturday, Sunday
and holidays, family, health and job permitting, throughout the year.
[Added 9-11-2012 by Ord. No. 2252-2012]
Any member who has been arrested for any matter or charged with
a violation of N.J.S.A. 39:4-50 (driving while intoxicated) or N.J.S.A.
39:3-40 (driving while suspended) or whose driving privileges have
been suspended by any authority must immediately, but not later than
48 hours after the occurrence of the aforementioned, notify the Company
Captain in writing of the incident.
