[1932 Revision, Title 5, Ch. 1, Art. 3, § 3; G.O. No. 1091, § 19; G.O. No. 1102, § 1]
All volunteer firemen shall be appointed by the Fire Chief, with the approval of the Town Administrator and consent of the Mayor. Every volunteer fireman at the time of his appointment shall have the qualifications prescribed for members of the uniformed force of paid firemen, either by law or by Section 11-24; except, that any volunteer fireman may be under the age of 21 years but shall be at least 18 years of age at the time of appointment.
[1932 Revision, Title 5, Ch. 1, Art. 3, § 4; G.O. No. 1091, § 20]
Every application for appointment as a volunteer fireman shall be in the handwriting of the applicant, upon a blank furnished by the Fire Chief which shall be filed with the Fire Chief upon completion. The applicant shall state his age, residence and occupation and give evidence of his citizenship. The applicant shall signify his willingness to abide by the ordinances, rules and regulations governing the Fire Department.
[1932 Revision, Title 5, Ch. 1, Art. 3, § 13; G.O. No. 1091, § 21]
All volunteer firemen shall answer and attend all alarms of fires within the Town. Members shall proceed without delay to the place of alarm and report to the officer in command. Roll shall be called at the fire house upon returning from every fire or alarm of fire.
[1932 Revision, Title 5, Ch. 1, Art. 3, § 14; G.O. No. 661; G.O. No. 1091, § 22]
All volunteer firemen shall be under the direction of the Fire Chief or his Deputy in command at all fires and alarms of fires. The officer in command at any fire shall have the power summarily to suspend any volunteer fireman for disobedience, misconduct or neglect of duty, such suspension to continue subject to the approval of the Fire Chief until the Town Council shall take action thereon. No volunteer fireman shall leave the scene of a fire until all apparatus is ready to return to headquarters unless permission to leave has been granted by the Fire Chief or his Deputy in command.
[1932 Revision, Title 5, Ch. 1, Art. 3, § 15; G.O. No. 1091, § 23]
Any member of the volunteer force who may desire to resign shall forward his resignation to the Fire Chief. If no charges exist against him, the Fire Chief shall accept such volunteer fireman's resignation.
[1932 Revision, Title 5, Ch. 1, Art. 3, § 16; G.O. No. 1459, § I]
A member of the volunteer force shall be a resident of the Town of Westfield or be employed within the Town of Westfield or be a resident of a municipality contiguous to the Town of Westfield. Any member of the volunteer force who fails to meet the aforesaid criteria shall, upon failure to file his resignation within 30 days after his circumstances change so that he does not meet these criteria, be dropped from the rolls of the Fire Department.
[1932 Revision, Title 5, Ch. 1, Art. 3, § 17; G.O. No. 1091, § 24]
Exemption certificates will be granted to all members of the volunteer force who have served as active firemen for the term prescribed by law and have performed sufficient fire duty for the same number of years, either successively or in the aggregate. The time served shall be certified to by the Town Clerk and Fire Chief and the sufficiency of fire duty performed shall be certified to by the Fire Chief.
[1932 Revision, Title 5, Ch. 1, Art. 3, § 18; G.O. No. 1091, § 25]
The Fire Chief shall keep a roll of the active and exempt members of the volunteer force, with the dates of their admission, exemption and resignation. He shall also keep on file all applications for membership.
[G.O. No. 661; G.O. No. 1091, § 26]
It shall be the duty of the Fire Chief or his Deputy in charge at any alarm to be responsible for crediting the officers and members of the volunteer force with attendance at such alarm and to credit the officer or member of the volunteer force with such attendance if such officer in charge has granted such member permission to leave.
[G.O. No. 1106, § 1; G.O. No. 1311, § 1; G.O. No. 1379, § I]
(a) 
Any volunteer fireman who shall fail to attend at least 60% of the volunteer training drills conducted by the department in any calendar year, or who shall fail to respond to at least 20% of the general and mutual aid alarms in any calendar year, shall be removed from membership in the department and shall not be eligible for clothing allowance or other benefits for such year. Leave of absence, for a period not to exceed one year, may be granted by the chief of the Fire Department, upon written application, for good cause shown.
(b) 
Only general and mutual aid alarms, box alarms transmitted over the home alerting system and volunteer training drills shall be included in computing attendance percentages for qualification for exempt status of volunteer firemen.
(c) 
All volunteer firemen in good standing shall be entitled to receive a clothing allowance for each calendar year as permitted by law, based and computed upon credits earned by each such fireman during such calendar year; except, that no volunteer fireman shall be entitled to such allowance who has failed to attend at least 20% of the total number of general and mutual aid alarms, box alarms transmitted over the home alerting system and volunteer training drills during such calendar year.
Credits shall be earned by volunteer firemen in the following manner:
(1) 
For attendance at a general or mutual aid alarm, 1 1/2 credits.
(2) 
For attendance at a Box No. 5 alarm, one credit.
(3) 
For attendance at a civil disorder or snow emergency alarm, three credits for each 12 hours or portion thereof on duty.
(4) 
For attendance at a still alarm, 1/2 credit.
(5) 
For attendance at a volunteer training drill, one credit.
(6) 
For sleep-in duty at fire stations, three credits, plus credits for alarms rung during such duty, except as hereinafter limited.
(7) 
Credit will be given to a volunteer fireman for all general or mutual aid alarms rung during a period in which he is on duty, whether or not he shall actually respond, but no such credit will be given for Box No. 5 or still alarms rung during such period, unless the volunteer shall actually respond to and attend such alarms.
(d) 
For the purpose of computing clothing allowances, the maximum allowance for any volunteer fireman shall be $400. Each volunteer fireman shall be entitled to such percentage of the maximum allowance, up to a maximum payment of $400, as shall result from dividing the total number of credits earned by such volunteer fireman in the calendar year, as determined under Subsection (c) of this section, by 80% of the total number of credits occurring during such calendar year.