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Home My WebLink AboutCC ORD 1937-649 Fire department, repeals Ord. 56 (2.12)ORDINANCE NO. 649 National City, California "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA REPEALING OR- DINANCE NO. 56 OF SAID CITY ENTITLED, 'AN ORDI- NANCE CREATING A FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR NATION- AL CITY, CALIFORNIA, CRE- ATING CERTAIN OFFICERS THEREFOR AND DEFINING THEIR DUTIES AND PROVID- ING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF:: AND CREATING A FIRE DEPART- MENT FOR THE CITY OE NA- TIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, CREATING CERTAIN OFFI- CES AND OFFICERS THERE- FOR AND DEFINING THEIR DUTIES, REGULATING THEIR CONDUCT AND FIRE CON- TROL IN THE CITY OF NA- TIONAL CITY, AND PROVID- ING PENALTIES FOR THE cheeking theLprngleas.of stickmen, itagratioo; 'and -shallihaVe4ii,thogt- ity-Ao ;hood anY•,14eisselIm tor alongside, :ofioany• mrinirf -. Of pier within the eit,y-loirciit$i-of.- , Say of Sail Diego,- .prhvided.3.* vessel' 'Is onitre.‘and a le, life and vropiesty;_lihd- if --iii',Ii:1_ judgment it shalkisi,Meeiiiseity • whim ,-,e,ri pier obr ,0 lie'f , ,• remove snth . Vessel - •friiiii - MON VIOLATION THERF,01'." • and shall have the right to appear i i:, Z.''' shalidiave7,authari y to +icin . i',.- , The Council of the City of Nri- i" person or by counsel and ex- SECTION ' .. if any ,.,,,40,4,,, amine witnes,ses in his behalf. biiilit0,10..e'''3. 1 h iie, tional City do ordain as follows: -,cause,..p r , SECTION :). The Chief of the sti s'et ° ' Fire Department shall provide or word 'of this-Orditiarace is Or sEcTioN i. That Ordinance City, California entitled, "An or-, rt s a re,g a ors for the inicomt",thinta, ,s.u,h ..:det• -N- ile rid ul ti i any rtitnthl 'bold :0 '08Hilt?"*144lT- No. 56 of tho City of National , dinance creating a fire department 1,gliziernmeinit, of, ithices forl)epatro,ent for National City, California, lati provc the.per a tsthe, 'cio- 3rhal1,,,,,;:,,,116t'a:11?rtitte' vollidthi.t1;1.°13%:*4. ,- : creating certain officers therefor, on ofvlsame. aid ( h ef 31::47:Z:,,,g64,;,., of defining their duties, and pro- may suspe: any member of the ,7,;;44;iT'viti4k1 haimii viding penalties for the violation , eeTtrthment, for a term not to ex- '-''' this Ordinance 'in each 'ieeb thereof."; he and is hereby re- ef' t irty (30) days, where, in so..sec.,,,on siintetee; ci,haei p .hiti judgment, such suspension is ‘7'. '.'.i. ' pealed. necessary for the good of the othre liva047.tbthateta6nyf ilr:e5146‘toi.,itintlie '--t SECTION 2. There is hereby servie, such rules and --egulations a- ruay be prescribed by the Chief, aid must, upon such examinatior, he t'cund in sound bodily health. SECTION 7. ,No officer, member or- emplo:;ee of the Fire Depart- mer t shall be appointed or removed because of his religious or political oMnion, except. flat political Le- iivity may be cause for suspension or removal. SECTION 3. No officer, member or employee of the Fire Depart- ment shall be dismissed by the City Council, except for cause, nor until he has had a hearing before the Chief of the Department. In case of charges preferred against the Chief of the Fire Department, they shall be heard before the City Council, and if said charges be sustained, he may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the entire Council. The accused shall be furnished with a written copy of the charges against him at least three (3) days before his trial, created a fire department in and SECTION 10. Ti, case of a va- for the City of National City,.cancy, the City Council shali ap- California. point a Chief Engineer. The Chief SECTION 3. The Fire Depart- .Engineer shall be charged with ment of the City of National City, 'a special duty of superintending California shall consist of one .the extingutshment of fires. The Chief Engineer, one Assistant chiefs, officers and members as executive officer of the Fire De - Chief Engineer, and such battalion( Chief Engineer shall be the chief may he required from time to partment, Fire Marshall, Super - time, who shall be provided by the intendent of the Fire Alarin and City Council. The salaries of the I Telegraph Systems, and it shall Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart- be•his duty and that of the As-- ment shall be fixed by the City sistant Chiefs to see that all laws, Council at the same time, and in rules and regulations of the City, the same manner as the salaries made by the Chief and City Coun- of all officers are fixed and de- cil, under the jurisdiction of the termined. Fire Department are enforced. SECTION 4. All active officers, The City Council may grant such members and employees of the Fire Department at the time this Ordinance shall take effect shall he retained us members of the National City Fire Department, leave of absence with full pay not to exceed one year, to any Fireman who has contracted sickness or disability in the line of duty. The Chief of the Fire Department may ; and shall only he removed for require the said Fireman to report cause, as hereinafter provided. for duty upon satisfactory proof SECTION 5. The Fire Depart- that the said Firemen is ahle to perform his duty. The Chief of ment shall he under the manage the Fire Department may grant ment of the Chief and his succes- such leave of absence not to exceed sors in office, subject to the ap- , days with full pay, or uroval of the City Council. Said thirty (30) for other reasons, a leave of ab- sence of thirty (30) days, without pay, subject to the approval of the City Council. SECTION 11. The Chief Engin- eer may suspend any subordinate officer, member or employee of the Eire Department of the City for incompetence, or for any violation of the rules and regulations of the Fire Department, and shall forth - Chief shall organize the Depart- ment, and shall organize when he may deem it necessary a Depart- ment of Fire Prevention. The Chief Engineer shall be Chief Executive Officer of such depart- ment. Said Chief shall create and establish such fire companies as he may deem necessary, prescribe the number and duties of the offi- cers and employees of the Depart- tnent and the uniform and badges with report in writing such sus-• to be worn by them; have control pension, with his reasons therefor, of the property and equipments of to the City Council for its action. the Department and exercise full Ile shall diligently observe the - power and authority over all ap- propriations made for the use of the Department, subject to the ap. condition of the apparatus and workings of the Department, and. report in writing thereon at least proval of the City Council. once a month to the City Council SECTION 6. All persons ap- and make such recominendations • pointed to positions in the Depart- and suggestions respecting the incnt must at the time of their same as he may deem proper. In appointment be citizens of the the absence or inability of the United States, not, less than Chief Engineer. the Assistant twenty-one nor more than thirty- Chief Engineer shall perform his one years of age, of good charac- duties. ter and sobriety, and able to read SECTION 12. The Chief Engin- and 'rite English; all officers eer, or in his absence, the Assis, down to the grade of Lieutenant twit. Chief Engineer, or in their must have been residents of the absence, and Battalion Chief in. City at least one year next pre- charge, may, during a conflagra;1 ceding the date of their appoint- tion, cause to be cut down ot ment; they must pass a mental otherwise removed, any building* and physical examination under or structures for the purpose or f t vesSels tions,subsections', sentenees, es, phrases, or words lie declated, invalid or .-uneonstitutiolutI., $Eti'ION '14. All roicriaTlees tor parts of Ordinances 11 toitflict herewith are her4by rrr drawl. 'SECTION 16. The City Clerk " • _certify to the paieing•e ,of this Ordinance by sdid CIO' t%uncil, and Waall cause ittie sanie to be published by one: in, sartien in a -newspaper pubhsIcl in National City and there -Upon OW thesieafter ;the same ,shall full' farce ..amreffect thirty fi0.), days after •Blial,ipatasitge. Passe and adapted by the clef. Council of the City of Nati-014. City, Califorriiii, this 16th day.idf Pebary,:19117, by the following' vote; -to-it: AYES: -Councilmen CordirigiY, liiiittcher, Warner +and AYS: None. ENT: None. D. W. BIRD, . Mayor of Elio City of, National City, Calif.:. • Attest: ILOLLE- SMITH, City Clerk. I hereby approve the foregoing arditiatiee this 16th day of Feb- ruary, 1987. . :.D. W. BIRD, Mayor of t14 City of National City, Calif. hereby certify that the abode and tforagoint is a full and -true copy of t*cliratioe No. 649 abthe Ordinances of the City of Natienal 4y, �rna,asdopted byitle Cceincil of Said City, and pip- ev'ed by the Mayor of said klitY, on:the-46th day of February, :1937. 1)QiiALEy 1:f*tlie eitv of National City, oof. 6-19