35.01 Establishment and Purpose | 35.09 Conflict Resolution |
35.02 Organization | 35.10 Department Rules |
35.03 Membership | 35.11 Accidental Injury Insurance |
35.04 Training | 35.12 Liability Insurance |
35.05 Compensation | 35.13 Calls Outside the City |
35.06 Fire Chief | 35.14 Mutual Aid |
35.07 Obedience to Fire Chief | 35.15 Authority to Cite Violations |
35.08 Appointments of Volunteer Paid-on-Call Firefighters | |
A volunteer fire department is hereby established to prevent and extinguish fires and to protect lives and property against fires, to promote fire prevention and fire safety, and to answer all emergency calls for which there is no other established agency.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.16)
The department consists of the full-time Fire Chief and such other volunteer officers and volunteer personnel as may be authorized by the Council. The head of such department shall be the Fire Chief who shall be appointed, in accordance with the provisions of the city code of ordinances and the laws of the state of Iowa. The department shall be organized, staffed, housed, equipped and financed, in such manner and to such degree, as may from time to time be prescribed and authorized by resolution of the City Council, giving due regard to the recommendations of the Chief and the City Manager.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 372.13[4])
Any citizen of the City or within the extraterritorial zoning area immediately surrounding the City (as described by Ordinance No. 9007, adopted March 12, 1990) who is over 18 years of age may submit a written application to the Fire Chief. All volunteer paid-on-call firefighters shall be appointed by the Fire Chief in consultation with the Carroll Volunteer Fire Department members. After said applicant has satisfactorily served a probationary period of six months as determined by the Fire Chief and in consultation with the Carroll Volunteer Fire Department members, said applicant shall be entitled to compensation and other privileges accorded firefighters.
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