[HISTORY: Adopted the by Borough Council of the Borough of Oakmont 1-13-1969
as Ch. 27 of the 1969 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Fire prevention — See Ch. 103.
The Oakmont Fire Company of Oakmont, Pennsylvania, be and the same is
hereby authorized and directed to be organized in the Borough of Oakmont,
to be known as the "Oakmont Fire Company of Oakmont, Pennsylvania."
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Editor's Note: On 11-12-1946, Ord. No. 996, the Borough Council
ordained that the name of said fire company, originally known as the "Oakmont
Fire Company of Oakmont, Pennsylvania," shall be changed to and shall be hereafter
known, as heretofore commonly known, as the "Oakmont Volunteer Fire Department."
The membership of the Oakmont Volunteer Fire Department of the Borough
of Oakmont, in the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, shall be
composed of male citizens of the Borough of Oakmont, 21 years of age and upwards,
and shall be limited in number from time to time as the Council of the Borough
of Oakmont may by resolution direct, and until such resolution is duly enacted,
the membership shall consist of 25 members, as now constituted. New members
may be elected and received into membership from time to time by the present
membership and their qualified successors, to fill vacancies caused by death,
resignation, removal from the borough, removal from membership by the Council
of said borough, inability to serve or other cause, so as to bring the membership
up to the authorized quota or total. No person, however, shall be qualified
to act as a member of said Fire Department unless and until approved by the
Council of said borough, and any member thereof shall be subject to removal
at any time by action of the Council of the borough.
The Fire Department shall have and is hereby given the right to prepare,
adopt and amend, from time to time, bylaws providing for the creation of necessary
offices in the Department, the election, choosing, installing and removing
of officers, providing for the time and place of meetings, regulating qualifications
and duties of members not inconsistent herewith and providing other necessary
and customary bylaw regulations, all of which offices, officers and bylaws
shall be subject to the approval of the Council of the Borough of Oakmont.
Said Council may from time to time require the adding of additional provisions
to, the changing or amending of said bylaws and/or the adoption of new bylaws,
the creation and abolition of offices and the removal of officers as said
Council may deem most fitting and proper. Until such time as any such action
is taken, the bylaws heretofore adopted by said Fire Department and now in
force shall so continue.
In order to provide a necessary expense account for said Fire Department
and so as to create a fund to be used in the purchase of coats, hats, boots,
flashlights, batteries and other minor equipment required by the various members
of said Fire Department while going to, attending at or coming from fires,
to provide for reimbursement for damaged clothing to members of the Fire Department
while at or going to or coming from fires and to provide for the cleaning
of hose and necessary care of equipment used in connection therewith, the
borough, through its Mayor and Borough Council, doth hereby appropriate a
monthly amount as established by the Borough Council to be payable out of
the general funds of said borough and/or funds available for general operating
expenses and in accordance with the budget now prepared and hereafter to be
prepared by said borough. The money hereby appropriated shall be payable in
consecutive monthly installments as aforesaid, and said monthly appropriation
shall continue until such time as regularly discontinued or changed by ordinance
or resolution of the Council of the borough. The proper officers of the borough
be and they are hereby authorized to execute and deliver to the Treasurer
or Chief of said Fire Department, in the name of said Fire Department, the
necessary borough checks and/or vouchers to make payment of the successive
monthly installments in accordance herewith.
