[Ord. No. 24694, 1-28-1980; Ord. No. 24833, 10-27-1980; Ord. No. 24863, 11-24-1980]
(a) It shall be the responsibility of every owner of any residential
building, as defined in the Massachusetts State Building Code, sections
209.0 through 209.6, in the city to install smoke detectors on all
levels of habitation and on the basement level. Said smoke detectors
shall be installed and located in each residential unit and in all
common areas in compliance with the Massachusetts State Building Code,
section 1216. Each owner or authorized agent of the owner shall maintain
the smoke detectors in a building under his control in good working
order when any portion of the building is occupied.
(b) The smoke detectors shall be of a type approved by a recognized testing
laboratory as determined by the head of the fire department.
(c) Compliance with these provisions shall be required as follows:
(1) Lodging houses, hotels, motels, dormitories—September 1, 1981;
(2) Dwellings with more than four (4) residential units—September
1, 1981;
(3) Dwellings with four (4) residential units or less—July 1, 1981;
(4) Owner occupied single-family homes—January 1, 1982.
(d) After July 1, 1981, upon the sale or lease of any dwelling or at
every change of occupants of any subject dwelling unit occasioned
by or incidental to a sale or lease of said unit, it shall be the
duty of the grantor thereof (seller or lessor, as the case may be),
to provide written certification, before occupancy, to the building
inspector and the new occupant, that all required smoke detectors
are installed and in good working order.
(e) This section shall be enforced by the inspector of buildings.
(f) Whoever shall violate any provision of this section shall, for each
and every day such offense continues, be subject to a fine of not
more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars.
[Gen. Ords. 1962, § 2-8]
There is hereby established a principal department to be known
as the fire department.
[Gen. Ords. 1962, § 5-1; Ord. No. 23401, 4-9-1973]
(a) The fire department shall consist of the following:
(1) One (1) member who shall hold the office of chief;
(2) Six (6) members who shall hold the office of deputy chief to be known
as first deputy, second deputy, third deputy, fourth deputy, fifth
deputy and sixth deputy, respectively;
(3) Ten (10) members who shall hold the office of captain;
(4) Thirty-three (33) members who shall hold the office of lieutenant;
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Such number of permanently employed members as may, from time
to time, be authorized by the city council, all of whom shall be appointed
as required by law.
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(b) The fire department shall also include such members of an auxiliary
fire force existing pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 639 of the
Acts of 1950, who may be appointed as hereinafter provided.
[Gen. Ords. 1962, §§ 5-4, 5-5]
(a) There is hereby established the office of fire chief; the fire chief
shall be appointed by the mayor subject to confirmation by the council.
(b) The person holding office of chief of the fire department shall have
life tenure of the respective office during good behavior or until
he is removed for just cause, or is retired under applicable provisions
of law.
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State law reference—Tenure of fire chief, Acts 1917, c.
140.
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[Gen. Ords. 1962, § 5-8]
The fire chief shall appoint and remove, with approval of the
mayor in each case, and subject to applicable provisions of law, the
deputies, captains, lieutenants, firefighters and drivers, and all
members of the fire department, who shall serve from the date of their
appointments until they resign or are otherwise separated under applicable
provisions of law.
[Gen. Ords. 1962, § 5-12]
The fire chief shall have sole control and command at all times
over all members of the fire department and other persons at fires,
and shall direct all proper measures for the extinguishing of fires,
the protection of property and preservation of order thereat. In the
fire chief's absence the next in rank who is present shall execute
the duties of his office with full powers of the fire chief, and the
officer in command of the company which arrives at a fire first shall
be the officer in command.
[Gen. Ords. 1962, § 5-13]
The fire chief or, during his absence, the deputy chief of the
fire department is hereby authorized to go to aid another city, town
or fire district in extinguishing fires therein with both apparatus
and men, and while in the performance of their duties in extending
such aid, the members of the department shall have the same immunities
and privileges as if performing the same within the city.
State law reference — Power of council to authorize
assistance to other fire departments, M.G.L.A. c. 48, § 59A.