HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 280In the City Council
City of Lodi
Lodi, California
ORDINANCE NO. 80
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISIIING AN AUXILIARY FIFLi3
FORCE AND PROVIDING Poi3 ITS DUTIES AND CONTROL
The City Council of the City of L0d.i does ordain as
section 1. AUXILIARY FIRE FORCE ESTABLISHED, An
Auxiliary Fire Force is hereby established, to be a volunteer
organization, composed of not to exceed 100 members, separate
and distinct from the Fire Department of this city, but to be
headed by the Chief of the Fire Department,
Section 2. COJTTROL OF AUXILIARY FIRE FORCE. The Chief
of the Fire Department of this City shall have conplete authority,
control and command, subject to the provisions of this ordinance,
over the Auxiliary Fire Force. He .may appoint as members thereof
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any persons he may deem to be qualified, and he may reject any
application for membership. He may provide for the training of
candidates for membership, and for the further training of members.
Section 3. YBT=TOD OF ATPOINTMENT. 110 person shall be
deemed a member of the Auxiliary Fire Force until he has been
registered as such in a roster to be kept by the Chief of the Fire
Department, and until he has taken his oath that he will observe
and obey the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution
of this State, and the laws of this Nation, this State and this
City, and that he will carry out the duties of a member of the
Auxiliary Fire Force of this City to the best of his ability.
The oath may be administered by the Chief of the Fire Department,
or by any subordinate officer thereor' desipated by him.
Section 4. DUTIES, The dukges of the Auxiliary Fire
Force, subject at all times to the direction, supervision and
control of the Chief of the Fire Department, shall be to assist
the regular members of the Fire Department of this City in the
prevention, control and extinguishing of fires during the present
emergency of war, to aid in the ?unctions of civilian defense, and
to perform such related duties as the Chief may by order prescribe.
The Chief of the Fire Department may prescribe other
duties than those mentioned herein to be performed by the
Auxiliary Fire Force.
Section 5. IDENTIFICATION. An identification card and
such other insignia or evidence of identity as the Chief may
prescribe 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.
Section 6. REMOVAL FR0P.i TvIEN3ERSRIP - RESIGKATION. The
membership of any person may be terminated by the Chief of the
Fire Department at any time, and any member may resign from the
Auxiliary Fire Force at any time, but it shall be his duty to
notify the Chief of his resignation.
Section 7. DIMINISHING TEE FORGE. The Chief of the
Fire Department may by order diminish or expand the membership of
the Auxiliary Fire Force as exigency may require, within the
limit hereinbefore established.
Section 8. SUXIS\i:ARY DISMISSAL AND PUBLICATION. In
addition to the pehalties provided by law, any violation of law
under color of the performance of his duties as a member of the
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Auxiliary Fire Force, and any breach of the Rules and Regulations
established by the Chief shall subject any member to smary
expulsion and the fact thereof may be published at the order of
the Chief. This provision shall not be deemed a limitation upon
the Chief's authority to dismiss any person from membership.
Section 9.. FALSE PEhSONATTON. It shall be a misdemeanor
pv-nishable by imprisonment for not to exceed six months, or by a
fine of not to exceed $500.00, or both, for any person to wear,
carry or display an Auxiliary Fire Force identification card or
insignia or otherwise deceitfully represent himself to be connected
with that Force, unless he is in fact a member thereof.
Section 10. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an
emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health and safety and shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication as required by
law. The following is a specific statement showing the urgency
of this ordinance:
The United States is at war and this city is in great
and continuing danger of attack by the enemy. The exigencies
of war and the imqinence of great public peril have thrown un-
precedented burdens upon the regular employees of this city.
The danger is such as to admit of no delay in providing additional
support and aid, voluntarily offered by hundreds of citizens, in
the maintenance of public mfety.
Approved this 20th day of May, l9&.
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nilayor of the City of Lodi
d I, . F. 3LAE;lr,L.Y, City Clerk of th-e City of Lodi
do hereby certify that the foreToing Ord-inance
No. 280 was regularly introduced at 8 meeting of
the City Council of the Citv of Lodi held IGay 6,
1942 and thereafter on the 20th day oI" April, 1942, finally passed, adopted and ordered to
print by the followin? vote:
ARSEVT: Councilmen, None
1 furthermore certffy that said Ordinance was
acproved and signed by the Thayor on the date
of its adoption.
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