[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Mount Holly Springs 10-13-1997 by Ord. No. 1997-05. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 12-13-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-06]
Any volunteer fire company in the Borough of Mount Holly Springs
may nominate such of its members, who when confirmed by the Mayor
as provided by law, shall be special fire police. The term of service
of each such fire policeman so confirmed shall be perpetual unless
the appointment and confirmation is revoked or terminated by the Mayor
for just cause.
[Amended 12-13-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-06]
No person shall be nominated for or appointed to the special
fire police who has not attained the age of 21 years. The special
fire police shall be selected from the names nominated by any volunteer
fire company in the Borough of Mount Holly Springs and submitted to
the Mayor. No member of the special fire police shall hold any other
position which shall compromise his or her availability or effectiveness
as a member of the special fire police.
When displaying a badge of authority, a special fire police
shall have the following powers and authority:
A.
Authority at fires. Special fire police shall have full power to
regulate traffic and keep crowds under control at or in the vicinity
of any fire on which their companies are in attendance and to exercise
such other police powers as are necessary in order to facilitate and
prevent interference with the work of firemen in extinguishing fires.
B.
Authority at functions, events and parades. Special fire police shall
have the police powers necessary to perform their duties when functioning
as special fire police at any function, event or parade conducted
by or under the auspices of, any volunteer fire company, or any other
event, function or parade conducted by an organization other than
a volunteer fire company, provided the request to perform these duties
is made by the Borough Council or the governing body in which the
event will be conducted.
C.
Emergencies. Special fire police shall have the power and authority
to perform traffic-control and crowd-control duties when accidents,
floods or any other emergencies require such duties be performed.
Such duties may be performed without prior request from Borough Council
until the arrival of appropriate Borough police authority and thereafter,
the special fire police shall be subject to direction of such police
authority until the emergency no longer exists.
D.
Duties adopted by Borough Council resolution. All members of the
special fire police shall perform fire police duties in accordance
with and pursuant to such resolutions as are adopted by Borough Council
from time to time.
All special fire police when on duty shall display a badge of
authority and shall wear such uniforms as approved by the Mayor.
The special fire police when on duty shall be subject to the
control of the Chief of Police of the Borough of Mount Holly Springs.
All special fire police so appointed prior to the effective date hereof shall be subject to the terms and provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the nomination and appointment provisions set forth in § 134-1, above.
The Mayor shall have the power and authority to revoke or terminate the appointment and confirmation of any person confirmed by him pursuant to § 134-1, above, for just cause.
The provisions of this chapter shall be severable and, if any
of its provisions shall be held to be unconstitutional, illegal or
otherwise invalid, that decision shall not affect the validity of
any of the remaining provisions of this chapter. It is declared to
be the legislative intention that this chapter would have been enacted
had the unconstitutional, illegal or otherwise invalid provisions
not been included in this chapter.
