There is hereby created and established in the Town a separate
unit of the Department of Public Safety’s Fire Department which
will be known as the Volunteer Reserve Fire Unit, consisting of no
more than six (6) voluntary Firefighter members, who will be nonsalaried.
(1971 Code, sec. 2-113)
The Town’s Chief of the Fire Department shall have authority
over this Volunteer Reserve Fire Unit subject to the orders and directions
of the Director of Public Safety of the Town, the Town Administrator
and the Town Council.
(1971 Code, sec. 2-114)
An applicant for membership in this Volunteer Reserve Fire Unit
must file with the Town’s Chief of the Fire Department a written
application on a form prescribed by the Town. The applicant must be
at least twenty (20) years of age, be of good character, have temperate
habits, and meet all the physical requirements of an officer of the
Town Department of Public Safety as well as have the physical ability
to perform all the duties of a Firefighter.
(1971 Code, sec. 2-115)
Appointment of members to the Volunteer Reserve Fire Unit shall
be made by the Town’s Chief of the Fire Department for a term
of one year; provided that any member may be discharged by the Town
at any time without or with cause, and without a hearing. Regular
full-time members of the Town Department of Public Safety shall not
be eligible for membership in this unit.
(1971 Code, sec. 2-116)
Each member of the Volunteer Reserve Fire Unit must achieve
within one (1) year of acceptance the level of fire protection personnel
standards and education as well as the training required by the Town
Department of Public Safety. In addition, each member of the unit
must attend each month a minimum of one (1) two-hour fire drill at
the Town Department of Public Safety.
(1971 Code, sec. 2-117)
Membership in the Volunteer Reserve Fire Unit shall not constitute
membership in the Town’s regularly constituted Fire Department
or its Department of Public Safety; nor shall any member of this unit
be entitled to any compensation, pension or any other right or privilege
of a member of the Town’s regularly constituted Fire Department
or Department of Public Safety, with the exception of workman’s
compensation coverage. The Town’s Chief of the Fire Department
may, in his discretion, provide uniforms and equipment for each member
of this unit.
(1971 Code, sec. 2-118)
Each member of the Volunteer Reserve Fire Unit, before commencing
any volunteer fire duties for the Town, must execute and deliver to
the Town’s Chief of the Fire Department an agreement, provided
by the Town, known as “Agreement to Serve as a Volunteer Reserve
Firefighter for the Town of Highland Park, Texas,” which shall
provide, among other things, that the Town will be released by the
volunteer member from all liability for any injury or death which
occurred in the line of duty.
(1971 Code, sec. 2-119)
Each member of the Volunteer Reserve Fire Unit, in order to
be eligible, shall serve in this unit on an assignment prescribed
by the Town’s Chief of the Fire Department, but in no event
shall a member serve in the unit less than two (2) shifts each month
totaling at least forty-eight (48) hours. However, in no event shall
any member of this unit be on twenty-four-hour call, but will only
be called to serve at the discretion of the Town’s Chief of
the Fire Department.
(1971 Code, sec. 2-120)
