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(a) The Fire Department shall consist of a Fire Chief, and Assistant Fire Chiefs, and other ranks as are determined to be in best interests of the City. The chiefs shall have the right to select firemen by presenting their names to the Board of Public Works and Safety for confirmation and approval.
(b) The Board of Public Works and Safety shall appoint the Fire Chiefs to hold office until their successors are elected and qualified, unless they are sooner discharged by the Board of Public Works and Safety for good cause shown.
(`91 Code, § 6-26)
(a) The Fire Chief shall have the right and power to make rules and regulations governing the signals of alarm for fires, the control of firemen and bystanders, the turning on and off of the water, and supervision of the fire equipment.
(b) The rules shall be submitted to the Board of Public Works and Safety and if approved the rules shall be spread of record, and advertised by publication.
(c) No person shall violate any of the rules after they have been adopted or refuse to obey any of the orders of the Chief or Assistant Chief while on duty at a fire.
(`91 Code, § 6-27)
Each of the chiefs shall, while on duty at any fire in the City, have all the power of a police officer during the continuance of the fire, to suppress disturbances and to arrest any person who may commit any breach of the peace or any depredation or injury to the property of another or who shall refuse to obey any order or direction lawfully given by the Fire Chief.
(`91 Code, § 6-30)
The Fire Chief shall also have the right to reprimand or suspend or to recommend to the Board of Public Works and Safety, discharge of any fireman for cause of failure to comply with the rules of said company.
(`91 Code, § 6-31)
Statutory reference:
Reprimand, suspension, and disciplinary actions, see I.C., 36-8-3.5-19
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