Any fireman must reside, at the time of his or her appointment to membership in the fire department, within the Hoopeston fire department’s special service area: with the exception of those members who have been previously exempted by the city council’s ruling of February 17, 2009, which is within a five-mile radius of the City of Hoopeston, until such members either resign or retire from the department. If any fireman, after securing membership in the fire department, moves his or her residence out of the confines of the Hoopeston fire department special service area, that fireman shall immediately relinquish his or her membership as a fireman. The membership of any fireman who is absent from three fires in succession or three successive fire drills without a good and lawful excuse shall thereby become vacant.
(Ord. 2015-4, 2014; Ord. 2004-4 § 1, 2003; prior code § 7.105).