A Fire Police Squad of the Fire Department of the City is hereby created
and organized pursuant to § 209-c of the General Municipal Law of
the State of New York.
The Fire Police Squad shall be composed of five members from each of
the fire companies of the Fire Department of the City of Port Jervis, to be
appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Common Council. The term of
each member of the Fire Police Squad shall be one year and shall begin on
the first day of February of the year in which the appointment is made. The
appointment of any member of said Fire Police Squad may be revoked at any
time by the Mayor with the approval of the Common Council, and pending such
approval of the Common Council, the Mayor may suspend any such member from
duty.
The Captain of each fire company shall, on the second day of January
in each year, in writing, recommend to the Mayor five members of said fire
company for appointment as members of said Fire Police Squad. At the regular
meeting of the Common Council in said month, the Mayor shall submit to the
Common Council for ratification the names of those whom he has appointed to
be members of said Fire Police Squad.
In case of a vacancy in said Fire Police Squad, the Captain of the fire
company in which such vacancy occurs shall recommend for appointment a member
of said fire company in the manner hereinbefore required, and the vacancy
shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment by the Mayor with the
approval of the Common Council.
There shall be a Chief, an Assistant Chief and a Secretary of said Fire
Police Squad, to be elected by the majority vote of the members of said Fire
Police Squad. Said Fire Police Squad shall be authorized to adopt bylaws,
which shall take effect when approved by the Fire Department and the Common
Council.
The members of said Fire Police Squad shall have the powers of and render
service as peace officers at such times as the Fire Department, any fire company
of the Fire Department or any Emergency Rescue and First Aid Squad of the
Fire Department is on duty, and the authority of said members of the Fire
Police Squad shall continue for the duration of a fire or emergency and until
released by the Fire Department officer in charge. At all such times the members
of said Fire Police Squad shall be subject to the orders of the Fire Department
officer in charge.
A.
Constituted. The members of each fire company of the
Fire Department of the City are hereby organized as Emergency Rescue and First
Aid Squads pursuant to § 209-b of the General Municipal Law of the
State of New York.
B.
Purpose. Each such Emergency Rescue and First Aid Squad
may render service in case of accidents, public calamities or other emergencies
in connection with which their services may be required, as well as in case
of alarms of fire.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Original Art. IV, Insurance During Fund-Raising Activities,
which immediately followed this section and was added 12-13-1971, was repealed
10-24-1983 by L.L. No. 11-1983.
