[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Swoyersville 2-4-1931. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The Maltby Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association and the Swoyersville
Fire Department Number 2, located in the First and Third Wards, respectively,
of Swoyersville Borough, be and the same are hereby officially and
duly recognized as such by the Borough Council of the Borough of Swoyersville
and as organizations formed for the purpose of protecting persons
and property within said Borough from the hazards and havoc of fire,
and maintaining associations for beneficial and protective purposes
to its members and their families in case of death, sickness, temporary
or permanent disability or accident, from the funds collected by or
contributed to said organizations.
The hereinbefore-named volunteer firemen's relief associations,
fire departments or hose companies be and the same are hereby designated
by the Borough Council of the Borough of Swoyersville as the proper
associations to receive such funds as are or may become due and payable
to the Borough Treasurer by the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
from the tax of 2% paid upon foreign fire insurance premiums by foreign
fire insurance companies doing business within said Borough.
There is hereby appropriated from the Borough treasury and directed
to be forthwith disbursed, distributed and paid over on proper Borough
vouchers, in equal proportions and as authorized, directed and provided
by an Act of Assembly approved April 25, 1929, P.L. 709, to the hereinbefore-named
volunteer firemen's relief associations, fire departments or
hose companies, all such sum or sums of money that may hereafter be
paid into the aforesaid Borough Treasury by the Treasurer of the State
of Pennsylvania, on account of taxes paid on premiums by foreign fire
insurance companies in pursuance of an act of assembly in such case
made and provided.
