[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Vandergrift as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 5-4-1987 by Ord.
No. 2-1987 (Ch. IX, Part 2A, of the 1970 Code of
Ordinances)]
Vandergrift Borough designates the George G. McMurtry Fire Department,
Vandergrift No. 1 and the Vandergrift Fire Department No. 2 to provide
initiatory fire service to Vandergrift Borough.
The George G. McMurtry Fire Department, Vandergrift No. 1 shall
provide initiatory fire service in the initial response district defined
as the First, Second and Third Wards, together with the portion of
the Sixth Ward described as:
The Vandergrift Fire Department No. 2 shall provide initiatory
fire service in the initial response district defined as the Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth Wards, except that portion of the Sixth Ward described
as:
[Adopted 3-4-1991 by Ord.
No. 8-1991[1] (Ch. IX, Part 2B, of the 1970 Code of Ordinances)]
[1]
Editor's Note: Section 8 of this article repealed Ordinance
Nos. 10-1961, 11-1961, 4-1983 and 3-1987.
In this article, the following words and terms shall mean:
Vandergrift Borough.
Those designated in Article I of this chapter, that is the George G. McMurtry Fire Department, Vandergrift No. 1, and the Vandergrift Fire Department No. 2.
The designated fire protection services for the Borough may
provide fire service outside the limits of the Borough in the manner,
upon the conditions and for the compensation as hereinafter provided.
Exclusive fire service shall be provided to a municipality outside
the limits of the Borough only when the proper authorities of that
municipality enter into a contract with the Borough, and under the
terms of the contract pay the compensation for the service as provided
therein.
In any case where there is established, under an intergovernmental
agreement in which the Borough participates, fire service may be provided
by the Borough to another municipality under an applicable agreement,
as follows:
A.
Exclusive initiatory fire service on a regular day-to-day basis to
a sustaining participant in accordance with the applicable intergovernmental
services agreement;
B.
Primary initiatory fire service to a segment of a sustaining participant
on an intra-system basis;
C.
Implementing fire services to a sustaining participant on an intra-system
basis;
D.
Reciprocal fire service on an occasion-incident basis to a municipality
under an intra-system service agreement.
Fire service may be provided on an occasion-incident basis to
a municipality in an extreme emergency. The response order shall be
at the discretion of the senior officer present of the requested fire
service.
Except as otherwise provided, one designated fire service shall
remain in the Borough at all times.
No contract for fire service provided in this article shall
be entered into until approved by the designated fire service.
