OCR Text |
Show TOWN OF BINGHAM ORDINANCE No. 36 Relating to Fires and Operations Opera-tions of the Fire Department BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Bingham Canyon, Utah; That Bingham Volunteer Fire Department is hereby created and shall consist of two companies compan-ies which shall be known as "Company Noj 1" and "Company "Com-pany No. 2." That each Company shall have a membership of not to exceed fifty members. That each Company shall have authority to organize its members into sub-stations if necessary or advisable. That each Company shall elect its captain and other officers as set forth in its Constitution and By-Laws which shall be approved approv-ed by the Town Board of Trustees. Trus-tees. That Company No. 1 shall have exclusive jurisdiction at all fires occuring within that part of the Town lying South of the southern boundary line of the Central School House lot, said imaginary line to extend in an easterly and westerly direction to the corporate limits if the Town. That Company No. 2 shall have exclusive jurisdiction at all fires occuring within the Town lying North of the aforesaid dividing di-viding line. That the Town Marshal and members of the Police Force upon arrival at a fire shall be under the immediate direction of the Commanding Fireman, the said Commanding Fireman shall have authority of a Police Officer until arrival of an Offi- L cer of the law. That the Fire Companies shall -have exclusive right of way while going to a fire.' That the Commanding Fireman Fire-man with the President or two members of the Town Board of Trustees: Provided, that in the absence of the President or members of the Board the Commanding Com-manding Fireman shall use his judgment) shall have the authority au-thority to remove any building or other obstruction that may be deemed necessary to check the progress of a fire. The town to b responsibl for destruction of property in compliance with this ordinance. Passed on Roll Cail vote October Oc-tober 9th, 1907. |