, 1879-09-06
Ordinance No. 53.
An Ordinance to establish Fire Department
for the City of WaIla Walla

An Ordinance to establish Fire Department
for the City of Walla Walla.
The City of Wana VALID does orrlain as follors:
SEC. l. The Fire Department of the City
OF Walla Walla shall consist of Chief Engn-
eer, one Assistant Engineer, President, Sec
retary and Treasurer, and Board of Delegates,
elected by the several fire companies of said
city as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 2. There shall be elected on the first
Monday Of October in 1879 and annually there
after, two members from each of the hre and
hook and ladder companies of the city to the
Board OF Delegates, which Board shall consist
OF two members from each Of said companies,
and who before entering on the discharge OF
the duties of their office shall take and sub
scribe an oath to well and truly perform the
duties OF Delegates. The Board Of Delegates
thus elected shall assemble on the third Mon
day of each month, and at their first meeting
shall proceed to elect President, Secretary
and Treasurer, whose term of Office shall be for
one year, or until their successors elected
and qualified. The President shall be elected
from the Delegates and the Treasurer and Sec
retary from the department at large. In all
business relating TO the fire department the
President and Secretary shall be empowered TO
administer oaths and affirmations.
SEC. 3. The Board of Fire Delegates shall
make all laws and rules for the government of
the fire department, which shall be binding up
on every member of the department, any viola
ton thereof, anv disobedence Of any lawful
order of the Chief or Assistant Engineer, shall
lie punished by being censured, suspended, re-
moved from Office CT expelled, from the DE.
partment. as a majority Of the Board shall
adjudge.
SEC. t. Contested elections for Chief and
Assistant Engineer shall be decided by a ma
jority of the Board of Delegates, and if a tie
should occur for either of said officers, the
Board shall fill said office for the ensuing term
SEC. 5. The Chief and Assistant Engineer
before entering upon the duties of their Offices
shall subscribe an oath faithfully to perform
the duties Of theiE Office, and thereupon they
shall be entitled to certificates Of Office signed
by the President and Secretary of the Depart
ment, and shall enter upon the discharge of
their duties ten days thereafter
SEC. g. When ever vacancv occurs in the
Office of Chief Engineer the Assistant Ensin-
eer shall act until the next regular election for
Chief Engineer.
SEC. Z. There shall be an election annually
on the first Monday of October for Chief En-
gineer and one Assistant Engineer. Said elec-
tion 10 be called by the Presiden. of the Board
of Delegates, by giving ter days notice thereof
in the paper doing the city printing The Board
Of Delegates shall appoint three judges to con-
duct said election, each from a different com
pany, who, before entering on the discharge of
their duties, shall take and subscribe an oath
faithfully ta discharge their duties. Said
election shall be held at such place az the
Beard of Delegates shall designate, and the
polls shall be kept open from 10 A. " to4p.M
The voting shall be by ballot and immediately
upon closing the polls the votes shall be pub
lically cornted, and the returns of the election
duly certified by the jndges, shall be forwarded
to the Secretary OF the Department, and shall
be by him transmitted to the Board of Dele
gates, who shall convene within ten days there
after and declare the result
SEC. s. No person shall be allowed to vote
at any election of Chief or Assistant Engineer
unless he shall have been n member of the Fire
Department sixty days next preceding such
election. and shall be ever the age Of twenty
one years, ana no person shall be eligible to
Office in the Department without possessing !
tho qualifications of voter
SEC g. Each fire and hook and laider com
pany shall he composed Of not less than fifteen
and not more than sixty members.
SIC 10. At tn annual meeting Of each |
on the first Monday of March, of !
each year, each company shall elect Foreman
1st and ID Assistant Foreman, and two dele |
gates: also President Sccrct.rr and Treas !
nre", and such other officers as are provided |
for by their constitutions, who shall held their |
otfic 5 for one year and until their successors |
aye elected and qualified.
SEC Ii. Each company shall have power
to make rules Tor their own government not |
raies of the Department. |
Si,. u The Chief Engineer shall report !
tn the Common Councii q: the city on the first |
TUasaay in July an ii-,. TUESDAY OF January
II each year, the number location and condi-
ton q TIE cistcr:;s :nd water supply and fire
a. .;a-ituS, the company hnfIsas AMI al property
d tie ETY. IL sarpia, of the iire Department.
n! Ill accidents hy fire daring the year and
The caf:5c thereof, and SHAH make such recon-
rs he niay consider proper f;.c rem
ierng the Department mere Efficient.
SIC. l3. For TIL pIrpnse of ruttin-: in force
he provisions OF this ordinance, All election for
'hjef and Assistant Engineer and Board Of
ne;eS:t It's shall iI- he'd at washington Engine
iouSe on the first Monday Of October, 1879,
:ai Wm- Bender, member nf Wellington
-I.IpaGv, Joha CASTOR member Of Tier En-
,;nc Company AMI Isaac Welclr, member of
:e:iian. Hook & Ladder Company shall act As
u-',:es of said election.
SEC. L. That each of said companies file
With the City Clerk list of their members,
mi who have been such for two months or
more prior " the making M of said lists. That
aid lists shall be verified By the Foreman of
ach company to the effect that each of the
persons on said lists are members Of their said
company, and have been such for more than
wo months prior thereto, and that they are
'vcr the age of tweatyone years. and only the
,ersais whose names appear on said lists shall
-ote at said election.
SEC. -. The election returns provided for
" SECTION - of this ordinance shall be certif-
Il to by the judges and delivered to the Com
nittee on Fire Water of the Council who
hall declare the result and issue certificates of
lection to the parties entitled thereto
SEC 1G- This ordinance to take effect and
,e in force from and after its passage and pub
:cltiun-
Passed the Common Council Sept ., 1879.
G.. F. WHITNEY, City Clerk
Approved Sept. B. 1879.
JAMES MCAULLIFR, Mayor.