The Chief Fire Alarm Operator shall be appointed annually in July for the purpose of performing the duties prescribed in § 141-39 by the Mayor upon recommendation of the Fire Chief and the Chief of Police. He shall be appointed to serve for a term of one year, or until the appointment and qualification of his successor, and shall receive such compensation for his services as the City Council shall determine.
The fire alarm telegraph and police signal telegraph system shall, subject
to the general control and supervision of the Mayor, the Fire Chief and the
Chief of Police, be under the particular care and superintendence of the Chief
Fire Alarm Operator, who shall see that the systems are at all times kept
in good repair and working order and shall be responsible for the condition
of the same.
All boxes of the fire alarm telegraph and police signal telegraph systems
hereafter installed shall be grounded by a three-quarter-inch galvanized iron
pipe, which pipe shall be sunk in the ground to a distance of at least 4 1/2
feet.
No person, unless authorized by the Fire Chief, the Chief of Police
or the Chief Fire Alarm Operator, shall open any signal box connected with
the fire alarm telegraph system except when the opening and use of such box
is necessitated by reason of a fire or shall open any signal box connected
with the police signal telegraph system; or shall otherwise interfere, meddle
or tamper with any of the boxes or with any part thereof, or with the wires,
conductors, poles or other supports of the system, or with any other apparatus
or appurtenances thereof. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent
or obstruct the making of an inspection by the Inspector of Wires, either
by himself or by any of his authorized assistants, in the regular course of
his duties.
