[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Aldermen (now City Council) of the City of Chicopee as Ch. 27 of the 1976 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Department of Emergency Management — See Ch. 9.
Public Works Department — See Ch. 80.
Dike system — See Ch. 142.
There shall be in the City of Chicopee a Department to be called the "Flood Control Department," which shall be under a Commission known as the "Commission on Flood Control."
This Commission shall consist of five members as follows: City Engineer, who shall be Chairman; Superintendent of the Highway Department; Superintendent of the Water Department; Superintendent of the Electric Light Department; and one member to be appointed by the Mayor for a term of three years.
Said Commission on Flood Control shall have full charge of repair and supervision of the dikes, including the pumping stations in connection with the dikes and all other machinery used in the care and operation of the dikes along the Connecticut River and the Chicopee River and any other dikes that are now erected or may be erected in the City. This Commission shall serve without compensation.