The record-union., 1893-01-16

\ Fire Commissioners shall include ap-
polntment Of Superintendent of Fire
Alarm Ielegraphs, and assistants and
Z employees and repairers, Chief Engineers.
such assistant engineers, mem bers, fire
men and employees and such other help
as the eNlgences may require within ap-
preparations and ordinances of the re-
spective City and Town Councils. The
government and discipline of a fire de-
partment shall be such as the respective
board shall from time 10 time by rules,
regulations and orders prescribe. The
board shall have power, in its discretion,
on conviction of any member of the force
OF any illegal ot1ense, or of neglect of
duty, or violation of rule, or neglect or
ulsOnedlence Of orders, or incapacity, or
absence without leave, or any conduct
adJudged by the board to be injurious 10
the public peace or welfare, or immoral
conduct, or conduct unbecoming an
ofllcer, or other breach Of discipline, to
punish the offending party by reprimand,
loEeiting and Withholding pay for
specified time, or dismissal from the
force; provided, that not more than ten
days pay shall be forfeited and withheld
Tor any one ot1ense. No person shall be
removed for political reasons No engi-
| neer, member, fireman, or other employe
OF any fire department shall be a member
OF any political club, association or organ
lzatlon, or take part in any primary or
general election other than 10 vote.
NO officer or member shall be removed
until after written charges shall have
been preferred against him. and after
such charges have been publicly exam
lned into, after reasonable notice to the
person charged, and in such manner Of
examination as the Commissioners may
prescribe.
The salaries of the engineers, inspectors
ana other employees are 10 be fixed by the
Town hxrg -gI1 1,,ITS
glnes, horses, machinery and apparatus
snail be purchased and repaired only b--
auLhOrlIy OF the Council, under the direca
ton and supervision of the Commission
ers.
The maximum salaries that can be al
lowed the employees of the fire depart
ment are liked in the proposed bill as fol-
lows: Chief Engineer, IS, $50 per year;
assistant Chief S2,400; district engineers,
81, 800; toremen, $500 engineers of steam
ers, 81, 900; assistant engineers OF steam
ers, $3.50; drivers. 81 900, and hosemen,
$500. Aliens are not eligible to positions
III the department, nor ex-cOnvicts nor
persons who cannot read and write in
English. All members of the department.
must wear an appropriate uniform.
The City Trustees shall by ordinance
provide for retaining from the pay of
each member of the fire department en-
gagged in the extingulshing of fires, or Of
month, to be paid into fund to be known
as THE Fire Department Health and Life
Insurance Fund" All fines and penal
ties imposed on the uniformed force of
the department under the provisions of
this Act shall be paid into the treasury of
such fund.
Senator Mahoney has in a bill proyid-
ing for increasing the efficiency of paid
tire departments within municipalities"
1t simply sets forth that whenever the
public interest, safety, or convenience
may require, or it be deemed expedient,
the City Council Of any municipality au-
thoriZed by law to maintain paid fire
department, may by ordinance, make
and enforce such rules and regulations
within said municipality as may be neces-
sary or proper for increasing the etfic-
iency of said paid fire department, and to
that end, among other things, may pro-
vide for and authorize the appointment
and continued employment of such assist
ant engineers, members, firemen, em-
ployes and other help in and Tor said fire
department, IN addition to those whose
employment is now authorized by law, as
the needs OF said department NAV re-
quire; and may fix their salaries and
compensation, and may increase the sal
aries and compensation Of the officers,
members, employees and other help now
authorized by law whose salaries and
compensation, as now fixed, may be
deemed inadequate; and may in like man
ner provide for the purchase and repair,
and authorize to be purchased and kept
IL repair, in addition to those for the pur-
chase and repair of which provision is
now made by law. all additional engines,
horses, hook and ladder wagons, and ali
such other engines, machinery, impIe-
nents, eXtinguishers, and other apparatus
that may be necessary, advantageous, or
auxiliary TO extuguish or afford adequate
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provide the necessary funds with which
TO accomplish the foregoing ends, may
make all necessary and supplementary
appropriations, allowances and payments
in addition to those now authorized by
law"