HomeMy WebLinkAbout67 - Creating a Volunteer Fire DepartmentORDINANCE No. 67
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, CREATING
A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES THEREOF.
The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does ordain
as follows :
SECTION 1. CREATION OF VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. A
volunteer fire department for the City is hereby created.
SECTION 2. MEMBERS. Said volunteer fire department
shall be a volunteer organization composed of the number of
members which the City Cruncil may from time to time designate.
SECTION 3. COMPENSATION. The compensation for members
of the volunteer fire department shall be fixed by the City
Council by resolution.
SECTION 4• APPOINTMENT: GOVERNMENT OF. The volunteer
fire department and the members thereof shall be governed by
the prx>visions of the laws of California, the Costa Mesa ordinances,
and such by-laws, rules and regulations as the members of the
department adopt, subject to approval of the Council.
SECTION 5. CONTROL. The City Manager shall have
complete authority, control and command, subject to the provisio3is
of this ordinance, over the volunteer fire department. He shall
provide for the training of candidates for membership and for
further training of members.
SECTION 6. DUTIES. The duty of the volunteer fire
department shall be the protection of life and property from
fire.
SECTION 7. IDENTIFICATION. An identification card and
such other insignia or evidence of identity as may be prescribed
by the rules and regulations governing the volunteer fire
department shall be issued to each member, who must carry the
card and other identification at all times while on duty, and
he must surrender them upon the termination of his membership.
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SECTION 8. REMOVAL FROM MEMBERSHIP. RESIGNATION. The
membership of any person may be terminated by the City Manager
at any time, and any member may resign from the volunteer fire
department at any time, but it shall be his duty to notify the
City Manager of his resignation.
SECTION 9. IMPERSONATION PROHIBITED. No person shall
wear, carry or display a volunteer fire department identification
card or insignia or otherwise deceitfully represent himself
to be connected with the volunteer fire department unless he
in fact is a member thereof.
SECTION 10. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
full force thirty (30) days from and after its passage; and prior
to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the passage thereof,
this ordinance, together with the names of the members of the
City Council voting for and against the same, shall be published
once in the Costa Mesa Globe Herald, a newspaper printed in the
City of Costa Mesa.
Passed and adopted this lst day of lv*,etlber, 1954•
ATTEST:
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City Clerk of the t o
Costa Mesa
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CITY OF COSTA KESA :
I, A. C. SIVWTZ, Cite Clerk of the City of Costa 1,iesa, do hereby certify that at
a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa 1,jesa, held on the lot
day of November , 1954, the foregoing Ordinance, containing 10,
sections, was considered section by section, and that the said Ordinance was then
passed and adopted as a whole by the following vote:
AYES: rive COtrTCILIM: Nelson, Martirn, Pi�nklel Smith and
ToWinkle
NOBS: None COUFULUM: -
ABS30TT: None COUITCILP1MT:
I further certify that said Ordinance was thereupon signed by thtMe-yor of the
City of Costa Mesa. -
ATTEST: 1
City Cleric of the City of asta Mesa