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AUENDING SEC~ION 50 AND 51 OF PART I OF THE
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OP THE· CITY OF PALO ALTO
RELATING TO FIRE DEPAR1MENT.
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Tne Council of the City of Palo Alto do
.···ordain a.s :foll owe:
.;/ Sections 50 and 51, Article IV, .Part I
of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Palo
Alto are amended to read as follows:
Section 50. FIRE DEPARTMENT: The .Palo
Alto Fire Department is her4'by recognized as •9.:i.'1d
declared to be the established fire department of
the City of .Palo Alto. The chief of the fire
department and th' regu.lar :nonthly paid emplo;7es
of the fire department shall be appointed by the
Boa.rd of Public Safety to hold offi-ce at the
pleasure of the Board.
Section 51. CHJ'.EF. The chief of the fire
department shall be ex officio fire ma.rah.al, :!U'ld as
such shall have the _;powers of a police offioe:r
during a fire, from the time the fire apparat'll.s ··
leaves the fire house until it returns theret,o.
lie is herebJ authorized and empowered:
POWERS OF. (1) To have charge and control
of the fire department property and apparatus,. and
t 0 enforce all rales and regulations rele.t1Iig thereto.
_( 2} To report to the :Soard of .2ubl:lc
Safety from time to time as req:a.ested, regardj~ng
the condi ti one of the city as to all matters l~e
ferring to fire prev.ention or protection.
The city clerk is directed to post this
ordinance on the bulletin boaTd at the city hfQl
and the same shall go into effect immediately.
The s.bove and foregoing ordinance w1;~s duly
passed by the city council of the city of Es.le> Alto
on the 15th day of September 1924, by the following
vote:
AYES:
NOES:
Bertsche,Cathcart,Duveneck,Easterday,Hobart,
~endenhall,Terwilliger,Thoits,Willisms.
Jordan.
ABSENT: Blair, Cooley, Cottrell, Lausten, Wing •
Approved:~~...-~~~~~~
:tliiyor pro tem.
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Attest: ~yd~;
Ci.ty Clerk
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