HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 04.14.1923 - Fire Department Companies- AN ORDINj�= OF THE CITY OF GEOTGETOWN, TEXAS, FIXING THE
L IMI T OF THE N-21BER OF MEMBERS OF EACH OF THE FOUR COMPANIES OF
THE GFORGETO'7N FIRE DEPARTWENT: _.MID FIXING THE QUALIFICATION OF
OF SUCH YM BERS: AND RhGUTA TING THEIR ATTENDANCE AT FI1:13S9 AND
AND AT COMPANY AND DEPARTMMgT STINGS AND AUTHORIZING THE SUS-
E NSION OF SUCH +IBERS; AND A"JTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THAT A
LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF EACH COMPANY, IN GICOD STANDING, BE FILED
7 TITH THE CITY CLERK OF THE SAID CITY, ONCE EACH �UART�?R; AND
REVEALING ALL ORDINANCI-IS IN CONFLICT IIBRL'-`*JITH, AND CREATING
AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of
Georgetown, Texas:
Section 1. That the membership of the four companies
of the Georgetown Fire Department, viz; The Rescue; The
Mechanics, The Chemical, and The Hook and Ladder, shall be lim-
ited to twenty members each.
Section 2. That each member of each company, hereafter
joining, shall at the time of joining, reside in the City lim-
its of the said City, and be in good health, and be above eight-
een years old.
Section 3. That each member of each company, shall at-
tend at least 75% of all fires, and of all of the meetings of
his company, and of all of the meetings of the Department each
quarter, unless he be sick, or out of the City, at the time
of such fires and such meetings.
Section 4. That any member of any company that removes
from the City, or fails to attend at least 75% of all fires,
and of all meetings of his company, and of all meetings of the
Department in any one quarter shall lose his membership, and
all rights, privileges and exemptions thereunder; provided that
such member shall be excused from such attendance, when his
absence from fires or meetings is caused by his being out of
the City, or by reason of his sickness; provided further, how-
ever, that before such excuse for absence shall be available,
the member shall present the same in writing, to the Secretary
of his company, before the list of membership of his company
is filed with the City Clerk, as herein provided.
C�1y of Gc��'gqcc}C a'>� �5R
ordinances 1420 -111VI
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Section 5. That each company shall have the power, by
a majority vote, to expell any member from the said company,
provided, however, that any member absenting himself, from
fires, and from meetings, without excuse, as herein provided,
or :roves out of the City, shall cease to be a member, without
any further action on the part of :his company, and shall be
so treated, when the list of membership is being made up, as
herein provided.
Section 6. That any member expelled from a company, or
who shall lose his membership, for non attendance of fires and
meetings, as herein provided, shall not be eligible to member-
ship in any company of the Department for 12 months thereafter.
Section 7. That the Secretary of each of the companies
of The Fire Department shall, on or before the regular meetings
of the City Council of this City for the months of January,
Apr-il,July and October of each year, file with the City Clerk
of this City a list of all of the members of his company in
good standing, for the last preceding quarter, and that the name
of no member expelled, or who has moved out of the City, or who
has lost his membership for non attendance at fires or at meet-
ings as herein provided shall be included in the said lists of
membership, so filed.
Section 8. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 9. That the fact that there is no ordinance of
this City regulating the membership in the Fire Department of
the said City, creates an imperative public necessity that the
rules be suspended, and that this ordinance take effect from and
after its passage; which is here ordered.
PASSHD AND APPROVED this the 14th, day of April A.D.1923.
Pro Tem. O.W. Sherrill,
Mayor, of the City of
Georgetown, Texas.
ATTEST: Geo Keahey.
City Clerk of
Georgetown, Texas.