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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE - 52 - 3/10/1958 - FIRE DEPT., ESTABLISH AOrdinance No. 52 AN ORDINANCE establishing a Fire Department and defining its powers and duties. BE IT ORDAINED by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Elk Grove Village, Cook County, Illinois: Section 1. Establishment. There is hereby created and established a fire department, consisting of a Chief, and such other members of said Fire Department as may from time to time be appointed by the President and Board of Trustees. Section 2. Supervision over department.- equipmeut.The Fire Chief shall have control, subject to the order and direction of the Village President, of the Fire Department and all fire apparatus belonging to the Village. Whenever any fire apparatus needs repairing said Fire Chief will cause same to be done without delay. Section 3. Command at fires. In case of fire, the Fire Chief and his assistants shall rank in the order named and the officer of the highest rank at the fire shall take command of the fire department, and direct the management thereofbr the suppression of the fire, in the best manner possible; and when it may be necessary for the protection of other property and to prevent the spread of the conflagration, the officer in command of the fire department may cause buildings to be moved, torn down or destroyed in the best manner possible. Section 4. Membership - organization. The Fire Department may have any organization approved by the Board of Trustees, and may hold meetings and engage in social activities with the approval of the board_ The Secretary of the Fire Department, if any is elected, and appointed, shall keep a record of all meetings and all activities of the Fire Department. 0 No officer shall be elected or appointed within the organization of the Fire Department without the approval of the president and board of trustees. Section 5. Records. The Fire Chief shall keep or cause to be, kept a record of an meetings of the company and the attendance of the members, a record of all fires, and faring the last week of April of each year, file with the Village Clerk, a full report of such records and attendance and fires, which report shall be under oath. Section 6, Duties. It shall be the function xnd duty of the Fire Department and every member thereof to extinguish accidental or destructive fires, tand to prevent the occurence or spread of such fires. Section 7. Obedience to orders. Any fireman in attendance at a fire who shall neglect or refuse to obey the orders of the officer in command at such fire, shall upon conviction be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. Section 8. Entering fire houses. It shall be and hereby is declared unlawful for any person or persons to enter the fire department house or any place where the equipment and apparatus of the fire department is stored, at any time except on business pertaining to the fire department or other Village business. The penalty for the violation of this section shall be a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars. Section 9. Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication according to law. PASSED: this 10th day of March 1958.1 APPROVED: this 10th day of March , 1958. ATTEST: Margaret C. Petrie Village Clerk Charles A. HOdlmair President PUBLISHED: Elk Grove Herald 3113/59 urnrirauArz ur rursiAu9•ritirl PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS, INC. A Corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY That it is the publisher of E1k Grove Herald Edition of the Cook County Herald That said Elk Gyms Harald d Edition of the_Oook C =Wsgg1}lg}d of general circulation newspaper in the Village of Elk Grove Ville , County of Cook and State of Illinois, continuously for more than six months prior to, on and since the date of the first publication of the notice hereinafter referred to and is of general circulation throughout said Village, County and State. That a notice, of which the annexed printed slip is a true copy, was pub - 31k Grove Herald Edition of the lished in said conk 081intg Harald on the lath—day of March A. D. 19-2�, IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, the said PADDOCK PUBLI- CATIONS, INC., has caused this certificate to be signed and its corporate seal affixed 'hereto, by FRANCIS E. STITES, its Secretary, at Arlington Heights, Illinois, thin 14th day of March A. D. 19 58 � PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS, INC. BY E,—,—dl':.O�tri' Secretary.