[Adopted 4-26-1988 as Ch. 8, Art. II of the 1988 Code]
A.
In accordance with Chapter 379 of the Acts of 1969
and MGL c. 40, § 6B, a uniform allowance shall be paid directly
to uniformed members of the Fire Department. Each member thereof who
holds an appointment with such Department as of September 1 in such
year, including the administrative head thereof, shall be paid, directly
to such individual member, a uniform allowance for uniform purchases
and maintenance in the amount as hereinafter set forth, provided that
such member continues in permanent employment in the Fire Department
through December 1 of such year and otherwise meets the requirements
set forth in this section.
B.
The amount of the uniform allowance provided for under
this section, including the uniform allowance for the Chief and Senior
Deputy Chief, beginning with the calendar year 1975 and each year
thereafter, shall be the amount provided for under any existing collective
bargaining agreement covering members of the Fire Department.
C.
The administrative head of the Department, or a superior
officer designated by the administrative head of the Department, shall
set up the necessary standards within the Department to be followed
for the uniforms to be worn by the respective members of such Department
and the inspection thereof. Uniforms shall be inspected at least once
a year and at such times as may be set for inspection by the administrative
head or the superior officer designated aforesaid. Upon each inspection
a written record thereof shall be made and filed in the records of
the Department. Should it be found that the uniform, or the condition
thereof, of any member is not up to the standards established within
the Department, such uniform shall be reinspected within seven days
thereafter, and should such uniform, or the condition thereof, not
meet the requirements as established by the Department, the administrative
head of such Department or the superior officer designated aforesaid
shall so inform such member, and if within 14 days thereafter such
member does not bring his uniform, or the condition thereof, up to
the standard established, such member shall not be eligible to receive
his respective allowance toward the cost and upkeep of his uniform
for such year and shall, in addition, be subjected to such penalty
as may be provided by the rules of the Department.
Whenever another city , town or fire district
requires and calls for aid from the City in extinguishing fires therein
and the chief executive officer of the City consents to the rendering
of such aid, the Chief of the Fire Department of the City shall be
and is authorized and empowered to direct such members of the Fire
Department and such pieces of fire apparatus as he shall determine
necessary to be sent to the aid of such other city , town or fire
district, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 250 of the
Acts of 1925.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See MGL c. 48, § 59A.
