[Ord. 1726, 10/14/1991, § 1-401]
1.
The following association is hereby recognized as actively engaged
in providing fire protection and/or emergency services in the Township
of Ross:
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Ross Township Firemen's Relief Association
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The above-named association has been formed for the benefit
of its members and their families in case of death, sickness, temporary
or permanent disability or accident suffered in the line of duty.
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2.
The above named association of the Township of Ross Township is designated
the proper association to receive such funds as are due and payable
to the Township Treasurer by the Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania
from the tax on premiums from foreign fire insurance companies.
[Ord. 1726, 10/14/1991, § 1-402]
The Board of Commissioners shall annually certify to the Auditor
General of the Commonwealth, the name(s) of the active associations
and the percentage of service they contribute to the protection of
the Township of Ross. Such certification shall be on forms prescribed
by the Auditor General.
[Ord. 1726, 10/14/1991, § 1-403]
There is annually appropriated from the Township Treasury all
such sums of money that may hereafter be paid into the Township Treasury
by the Treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania on account of taxes
paid on premiums of foreign fire insurance companies in pursuance
of Act of December 18, 1984, No. 205, 53 P.S. § 895.701
et seq., as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted
by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. Such monies received by the
Township Treasurer from the State Treasurer shall be distributed to
the duly recognized association(s) within 60 days of receipt. The
funds shall be distributed on the basis of the percentage of service
established in the certification to the Auditor General and with other
provisions of the Act.
[Ord. 1424, 12/13/1982, § I]
In the event a member of the Ross Township volunteer fire company
is killed in the performance of his duty, the Township of Ross Township
shall pay or provide for the payment of the sum of $25,000 as a benefit
to the surviving spouse, or if there is no surviving spouse, to the
minor children of the volunteer fireman, and when no spouse or minor
children survive, the benefit shall be paid to the parent or parents
of such volunteer fireman. A volunteer firefighter shall be deemed
to be acting in the performance of his or her duties for the purpose
of this Part 6B going to or directly returning from a fire which the
fire company or fire department attended, including travel from and
direct return to a firefighter's home, place of business or other
place where he or she shall have been when he or she received the
call or alarm, or while participating in instructional fire drills
in which the fire department or fire company shall have participated,
or while repairing or doing other work about, or on the fire apparatus
or buildings and grounds of the fire company or fire department upon
the authorization of the chief of the fire company or the fire department
or other person in charge, or while answering any emergency calls
for any purposes, or while riding upon the fire apparatus which is
owned or used by the fire company or fire department, or while performing
any other duties of such fire company or fire department as authorized
by the municipality, or while performing duties imposed by § 15,
Act of April 27, 1927, P.L. 465, No. 299, referred to as the Fire
and Panic Act, 35 P.S. § 1235. The fire police shall be
considered to be members of the volunteer fire company subject to
call, either by the fire department, company or the municipality.
[Ord. 1424, 12/13/1982, § II]
The benefit provided for in § 1-611 hereof shall be paid in the event that the payment of such benefit by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was refused for any reason, but it shall not be paid in those cases where a similar benefit is paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pursuant to the Act of June 26, 1976, its supplements and amendments, 53 P.S. § 891 et seq.
