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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 3661 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 follows; ORDINANCE NO. 366 AN ORDIIIA14CE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA ESTABLISHING All AUXILIARY FIRE FORCE AND PROVIDING FOR ITS DUTIES A14D CONTROL. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as SECTION 1. An Auxiliary Fire Force is hereby established, the same to be a volunteer organi- zation separate and distinct from the Fire Department of this City, but headed by the Chief of the Fire Department. SECTION 2. The Chief of the Fire Department of this City shall have complete authority, control and command over the Auxiliary Fire Force sub- ject to the provisions of this ordinance and to any other lawful directions of the City Council or of the Azusa Defense Council or of the Co- ordinator. The Chief of the Fire Department may appoint such members of said Auxiliary Fire Force as die may deem to be qualified and may provide for their training. SECTION 3. No person shall be deemed a member of the Auxiliary Fire Force until he has been regis- tered 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 thereof designated by him. SECTION 4. The duties 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 functions of civilian defense, and to perform such related duties as the Chief may by order prescribe. The Chief may prescribe other duties than those mentioned herein to be performed by the Auxiliary Fire Force. -1- 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 L SECTION 5, 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. 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, The Chief of the Fire Department may by order diminish or expand the membership of the Auxiliary Fire Force as exigency may require, within however any limits prescribed by the Azusa City Council. SECTION g. In addition to the penalties provided by law, any violation of law under color of the perfor- mance of his duties as a member of the Auxiliary Fire Force, and any breach of the Rules and Regulations established by the Chief shall subject any member to summary 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 dis- miss any person from membership. SECTION g. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not to exceed $300.00 or by imprisonment in the City Jail or in the County Jail not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for any person to wear, carry or display an Auxiliary Fire Force identification card or insignia or otherwise force,�unless represent e is at that time actually a er member thereof. SECTION 10. This ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preser- vation 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. A declaration of and the facts constituting the urgency of this measure is that the United States is at war and this city is in great and continuing danger of attack by the enemy, that the exigencies of war and the imminence of great public peril have thrown unprecedented burdens upon the employees of this city and the danger to the city is such as to admit of no delay in providing the volunteer support and aid of the citizenry in the maintenance of public health and safety. -2- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 SECTION 11. The Mayor shall sign this ordinance and the City Clerk shall attest the same and certify to the passage, adoption and Uublica- tion thereof and shall cause the same to be published once, within 15 days after its passage, in the Azusa Herald & Pomotroplc, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed, published and cir- culated in the City of Azusa, which said newspaper is hereby designated for that purpose and thence- forth and thereafter this ordinance shall be in full force and effect. ATTEST: U. A. HYNES City Clerl f the City of Azusa. Passed, approved and adopted this 4ay of April, 1942. -3- v, V. A. OWENS Mayor of the City of Azusa. oil 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) (SS. COUNTY OF LOB ANGELES ) I, ra. A. HYNES, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the fore- going Ordinance was duly introduced,placed upon its first reading and fully read at a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa held. on April 3, 1942, in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council in said City; that thereafter said ordinance was duly and regularly passed and adopted by said Council, signed and approved by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk of said City, at a regular adjourned meeting of said Council so held in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council on April 9, 1942, and that the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: Ayes: Councilmen: Jumper, Malone, Arnold, Otiiens. Noe s: None Absent: Councilmen: Bradshaw W I DO FURTHER CERTIFY that I caused said ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald & Pomotropic on April 9, 1942, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City of Azusa, and that the same was published in accordance with law. -4•- City Clerk of theCHtY of Azusa.