(A) Volunteers. The volunteer firefighters are hereby authorized to create an organization and agree to such by-laws as they deem necessary to best govern themselves. Such by-laws shall not conflict with statutes, the city code or the Fire Chief’s rules and regulations. The volunteers shall be compensated by the city for each fire call answered at such a rate as may be set from time to time by the City Council.
(1999 Code, § 30-5-5)
(B) Meetings. The Fire Department shall hold monthly meetings and at the annual meeting, shall elect a Secretary and a Treasurer. The officers so elected shall qualify and take office at the first meeting in January.
(1999 Code, § 30-5-6)
(C) Secretary’s duties. The Secretary shall keep a record of all meetings of the Fire Department and the attendance of the members, a record of all fires and the attendance of the members of such fires. During the last week of March of each year, the Secretary shall file with the City Clerk a full report of such record of attendance and fires, which report shall be made under oath. He or she shall also keep such other records, make such reports and keep and furnish such statistics as may be required of him or her by law.
(1999 Code, § 30-5-7)
(D) Treasurer’s duties. The Treasurer, before taking office, shall execute a file with the City Clerk, a sufficient bond to the city, to be approved by the Mayor and City Council, conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her duties under this section. The Treasurer shall receive all monies collected for and on behalf of the Fire Department, including the tax and license fee for foreign fire insurance companies and shall pay the same upon the order of the Fire Department for the purposes of maintenance, use and benefit of such Department. Such Treasurer shall make monthly reports to the Fire Department on the condition of the funds in his or her hands and shall, on the first Tuesday of December in each year, make a sworn report and statement to the Mayor and City Council of all monies received and disbursed by him or her as such Treasurer and the balance of monies in his or her hands. The books, records and accounts of such Treasurer shall be faithfully kept and shall, at all times, be open to inspection and an audit of the Mayor and City Council. He or she shall, at the expiration of his or her term of office, surrender, pay and deliver to his or her successor in office, all books, records, accounts and monies in his or her hands as such Treasurer.
(1999 Code, § 30-5-8)
(E) Amount received. The City Emergency Unit and Volunteer Fire Department shall receive one-half of the amount actually collected from each Fire Department response outside the city for which revenue may be collected and the volunteer firefighters have assisted in responding. The City Emergency Unit and Volunteer Fire Department shall disburse the funds received to all volunteers of the Fire Department as the Constitution and by-laws of that organization shall require or allow. Mutual aid responses are expressly excluded from this section.
(1999 Code, § 30-5-9)
(Ord. 12-81, passed 10-27-1981; Ord. 17-11, passed 8-23-2011)