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(A) Full-paid firefighters shall retire at age 65 or in accordance with the Firefighters’ Pension Act of 1977.
(B) Partially-paid firefighters shall retire at age 65, and total compensation shall be $60 per year.
(C) Volunteer firefighters who became members of the Fire Department subsequent to 1-1-1953 shall automatically be transferred from active to inactive membership, and total compensation shall be $60 per year, at the age of 65.
(1985 Code, § 9-1-14) (Ord. 18-1978, passed 12-26-1978)
MUTUAL FIRE AID AGREEMENT AND FIRE PROTECTION CONTRACTS
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AIDING AREA. An area served by a participating fire company furnishing fire equipment to a stricken area, or to another aiding area.
FIRE COMPANY. An organization formed for the purpose of providing equipment and trained persons to fight and extinguish fires, whether the organizations are part of a town, city, or township, or other municipal corporation or private corporation.
MUTUAL FIRE AID PROGRAM. A plan or program whereby the fire companies participating in the program agree to come to one another’s assistance in case of fire or other disaster too large for local equipment and personnel to handle.
PARTICIPATING MUNICIPALITY. A municipality that participates in the mutual fire aid program by adopting an ordinance authorizing or approving the program and entering into an appropriate agreement (substantially as provided herein) with other participating municipalities and/or fire companies for rendering and receiving aid in case of fire or other disaster.
STRICKEN AREAS. An area served by a participating fire company, in which a fire or other disaster occurs that is of such magnitude that it cannot be adequately coped with by local firefighting equipment and personnel.
(1985 Code, § 9-2-1) (Ord. 4-1981, passed 6-9-1981)
The Fire Chief is authorized on behalf of the city to enter into (and from time to time alter and amend) an agreement with any or all of the fire companies in the mutual aid areas defining and putting into effect a mutual aid program providing generally as follows.
(A) In the event that, in the judgment of the officer in charge of the Fire Department of a stricken area, the available firefighting equipment of that area is inadequate to effectively cope with a fire or other disaster therein, the officer may call on a neighboring participating area to furnish firefighting equipment and personnel (to the extent specified in the agreement) to the stricken area for use either:
(1) In combating the fire or other casualty; or
(2) As a standby reserve to meet other calls that may occur before the local firefighting equipment is free to take care of them.
(B) Each aiding area furnishing firefighting equipment to a stricken area shall have the right to call on another participating area for firefighting equipment and personnel (to the extent specified in the agreement) as a standby reserve to take the place, in part, of the equipment furnished to the stricken area until the equipment shall be returned.
(C) On receipt of a call under divisions (A) or (B) above, the aiding area called upon shall (to the extent provided in the agreement) furnish the equipment and personnel called for by the stricken area, or by the first aiding area, except that each aiding area may always be permitted to retain sufficient firefighting equipment and personnel to fight any fire or to meet any emergency within its own boundaries that may reasonably be anticipated.
(1985 Code, § 9-2-2) (Ord. 4-1981, passed 6-9-1981)
The Chiefs of the Fire Departments participating in the mutual aid shall prepare a mutual aid program which shall incorporate the necessary provisions of § 33.26. The mutual aid program shall, after approval by the corporate authorities of the areas participating, be in full force and effect and binding on the participating areas.
(1985 Code, § 9-2-3) (Ord. 4-1981, passed 6-9-1981)
The city shall furnish firefighting personnel and equipment for use by its personnel outside its boundaries only as provided in the tentative mutual fire aid program agreed to as provided herein, to any area that has agreed to conform to the program and has assumed the obligations imposed upon it thereby.
(1985 Code, § 9-2-4) (Ord. 4-1981, passed 6-9-1981)
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