, 1884-03-19
LAWS OF WYOMING.
Passed by the
EIGHTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,
CHAPTER AZ.

AN ACT to encourage the organization of volunteer fire companies
Be it enacted by the Council ard House of Representatives of the
Territory OF Wyonnng
SECTION l. Hereafter the first forty active members
upon the roll of any hose, hook and ladder or other fire
company, in any incorporated city or town, or at any
military post or depot within three miles of any incor-
porated city or town within this Territory, shall be
exempt from serving on any jury, whether drawn as a
Juror or summoned as a talesman ProcdeG, That this
exemption need not be allowed, unless the secretary of
such company shall transmit to the county clerk, prior to
the time when the proper officers shall select the names
from which to draw jurors, a list of all persons in such
company who are exempt from serving as jurors and it
shall be the duty of the county clerk, within ten days
after receiving such list, to transmit a certified copy
thereof to each justice of the peace residing in the city,
town or military post or depot wherein such company is
located, and to the sheriff of the county and one to the
coroner of the county.
Sec. 2. Hereafter the first forty active members upon
the roll of any hose, hook and ladder or other fire COM
pany in any incorporated city or town, or at any military
post or depot within three miles of any Incorporated city
or town within this Territory, who shall have been mem
bers of such company at least one year, and shall have COM
piled with all of its rules and regulations, shall be exempt
from the payment of poll tax: PrOUjded, The chief officer
of the fire department of such city, town, military post
or depot shall, on or before the first Monday in May of
each year, transmit to the county assessor of the county
wherein such city, town, military post or depot is located,
a sworn statement of all the members in said department
and under his Jurisdiction, who are entitled to exemption
from the payment of poll tax for that year: and, prOUided,
further, That the wife of such person shall also be exempt
from the payment of poll tax, the same as her husband.
Sec. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the county assessor to
write the words " exempt fireman." on the assessmen
roll opposite the name of each person who has been
returned to him rs exempt from poll tax, and such per-
son shall not be required to pay poll tax that year.
Sec. 4. When any person who is now or shall here
after become an active member of any hose, hook and
ladder or other fire company in any Incorporated city or
town, or at any military post or depot within three miles
OF any incorporated city or town within this Territory,
shall have served five years as an active member of such
company, and during that time shall have complied with
all its rules and regulations, such person shall be exempt
from serving on any jury, whether he be drawn as a Juror
or summoned as a talesman, so long as he shall reside in
this Territory, and himself and his wife shall be exempt
from the payment of poll tax so long as they or either
of them shall reside in this Territory but, before such
person shall be entitled to the exemptions provided for
in this section, he must first obtain from the clerk of the
city or town wherein he performed the service Tor in the
case of Il military post or depot where the company is
under the jurisdiction of the chief officer of the fire
department of an Incorporated city or town, the certii-
cate hereinafter provided for.
1t shall be the duty of the chief officer of any hose,
hook and ladder or other fire company, to issue to any
person entitled thereto, within thirty days after applca-
ton for the same is made, a certificate stating that such
person has served five years as an active member of said
company, and has complied with all its rules and regula-
tons, and is entitled to the exemptions provided for in
this section, and upon presentation of such certificate it
shall be the duty Of the clerk of such city or town to
issue to such person a certificate stating that such person
has served five years as an active fireman, the name of
the company in which he served, and the exemptions to
which he is entitled under the provisions of this act,
which certificate shall be signed by the mayor or chief
officer of such city or town and attested by the clerk,
under the seal of the city or town wherein it is issued
Provided, Any person who, before the passage Of this act,
has served five years and is now an active member of any
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demand, if the demand is made while he is an active
member of such company And provided, further, Moth
ing in this act shall be so construed as to compel any
person receiving said certificate to retire from active
service as a fireman.
SEC. 5. Any person whose name appears on the roll
of honorary members of anv hose, hook and ladder or
other fire company in any incorporated city or town, or
at any military. post or depot within three miles of any
incorporated city or town within this Territory, at the
time of the passage of this act, shall, if the records of
said company show that he rendered five years active
service before being placed upon the honorary list, be
entitled to the exemptions provided for in section four
of this act, and upon satisfactory proof, to be taken from
the records, the chief officer of the company shall issue
to such honorary member the necessary certificate, and
upon presentation of such certificate, the clerk of the
city or town shall issue a certificate showing the eXemp-
tons to which such person is entitled.
SEC. 6. That chapter f%orty-tour (H) of the Session
Laws of 1879, being an act entitled AN Act to encour-
age the organization of fire companies" approved Deem
Der 10th, 1879, and all other acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed.
SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved March 9th, 1884.