(A) Fire Department established. There is hereby established for the city a Fire Department known as the Lake Park Fire Department consisting of a Fire Chief, Assistant Fire Chief and as many members of City Council may from time to time appoint.
(B) Duties of Chief. The Chief shall have control over all fire fighting apparatus and shall be responsible for its care and condition. The Chief shall report to the City Council at its first meeting in April and November of each year as to the condition of the equipment and needs of the Fire Department. The Chief may submit additional reports and recommendations to the Council at any time, and shall report suspension of members of the Fire Department at the first meeting of the Council following such suspension. The Chief shall be responsible for the proper training and discipline of the members of the Fire Department, and may suspend any member for refusal or neglect to obey orders, pending final action by the Council on his or her discharge or retention.
(C) Chief to keep records. The Chief shall keep in convenient form a complete record of all fires. Such record shall include the time of the alarm, location of fire, cause of fire, if known, type of building, name of owner and tenant, purpose for which occupied, members of the Department responding to the alarm, and such other information as he or she may deem advisable or as may be required from time to time by the City Council or State Insurance Department.
(D) Duties of Assistant Chief. The Assistant Chief shall, in the absence or disability of the Chief, perform all the functions and exercise all of the authority of the Chief.
(E) Members. All appointments of the Fire Department are made by the City Council upon the recommendation of the Fire Chief.
(F) Compensation. The members and officers of the Fire Department shall receive only such compensation, if any, as the Council may from time to time provide by resolution.
(G) Relief Association. The members and officers of the Fire Department shall organize themselves into a Firemen’s Relief Association.
(H) False alarm - refusal to aid. No person shall give or make, or cause to be given or made, an alarm of fire without cause, or shall neglect or refuse to obey any reasonable order of the Chief at a fire. Violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor.
(Ord. 9-1, passed 2-14-1972; Res. 14-209, passed 2-24-2014) Penalty, see § 10.99