Pursuant to the provisions of Ohio R.C. Section 4115.02, the Chief of the Fire Department is directed to divide the uniformed forces of the Fire Department into three platoons and to operate the Fire Department as a three platoon system by keeping at all times one platoon on duty twenty-four consecutive hours, after which the platoon so serving the twenty-four consecutive hour duty shall be allowed to remain off duty for at least forty-eight consecutive hours, except in cases of extraordinary emergency.
(1957 Code §8-10)