The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-23
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to provide for the extinguishment of
forest fires in the third and fourth class
counties of this state. and to provide
for the paymen of the expense there
OF" approved March twenty-third, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety
W two; Forest 1res varv destructive :,
their effects, are of frequent occurrence
in the timbered portions of this state;
and, whereas, owing in a great measure
to a lack of legal authority in the prem
ises, no i~ntelligently organized system
of fighting and e~Xtinguishing such fires
prevails; n remedy whereof,
!. Be it enacted by the Senate and Cen
eral Assembly of the State of New Jer-
sey, That in any township, in counties of
the third and fourth class in this state,
where any sum of money shall be raised
under the act to which this is a supple
ment, to defray the expense of fighting
and extinguishing forest fires, it shall be
the duty of the township committee of
such township, at it's next meeting after
such sum shall have been ordered raised,
to appoint a suitable person, being a resi-
dent of said township, to act as fire mar
shall thereof, and at the same time to de-
termine the amount of compensation per
diem to be paid such fire marshal when
in active performance OF his duties; upon
notice from the person SO appointed of
township committee shall Immediately
issue to him a certificate of his appoint
ment, under their hands and the seal of
the township.
2. And be it enacted, That after receiv-
ing his certificate of appointment as
aforesaid, shall have the power to desig-
nate and empower a proper person to act
as his deputy in case of his absence or
disability from any legitimate cause, and
the said deputy shall, while engaged in
the active duties of the said Office, re-
his chief.
9.And be it enacted, That it shall be
the duty of said marshal, on being ap-
prised of the existence of any forest fire,
either in his own township or any nd
joining township, by which the safety of
any property in his own township may be
imperilled, to proceed forthwith to the
location of such fire, and assume abso-
lutte direction and control of all opera
tions to be undertaken for the ~extinguish-
ingthereof within the bounds of his own
township; he shall have the power dur
ing the continuance of such fire to APP
point as many persons to act as aids in
carrying out his Instructions as he may
deem necessary, and all persons en-
ployed by the township committee, and
all other persons present who may be ac-
lively engaged in subduing such fire,
shall act in the premises solely according
to his orders and those of his organized
aids; he shall keep as nearly as possible
a correct account of hte names of all
persons actively engaged in fighting such
they are so employed, and in a ~reasona-
BILE time after such fire shall have. been
effectually extinguised he shall report a
statement of said account to the town
ship committee of his township.
A.. And be it enacted, That the town
ship committee of such township shall
cauSeto be made an accurate map or
maps of such proportions of the forest
lands of their o~tWnshipS as are in their
opinion ordinarily subject to damage by
fires, with all public highways, railroads
and such private and by-roads running
through the same as are deemed neces-
| sary accurately delinated thereon, to-
gether with such distances betWeen II
given points on said roads or their inter-
sections with other roads as ma seem
advisable, and shall cause to be made
whatever surveys and measurements
are necessary for the proper completion
of said maps one copy thereof, when
completed, shall be filed with the town
ship records, and such copies of the same
furnished to the fire marshal as the said
committee shall deem advisable.
5. And be it enacted, That the town
audit the a~ccounts rendered them by the
fiire marshal, and pay out of any funds
| of said township on hand and not other
wise appropriated all just and r%eaSona-
BILE bills presented for the work and ex-
penseS of fighting and Distinguishing
| such fires, together with all expenses in
| CURED in making and procuring the a
foresaid maps and surveys.
6. And be- 1T enacted, That the town
ship. committee shall at any time have
the power of removal of said fire marshal
for Incompetence or neglect of duty and
| the appointment of another person in his
stead. 10
S. And belt enacted, That this act shall
take; effect Immediately.
Approved May IA, 1894.