Sec. 444. Eligibility and oath of chief and assistant.
No person shall be eligible to the office of chief who shall not
have been an active member of the Fire Department for three
years. No person shall be eligible to the office of assistant chief
who shall not have been an active member of the Fire Department
for at least one year. The chief of the Fire Department
and the assistant chief shall, before entering upon the discharge
of their duties as such, take an oath as prescribed for all other
offices, to faithfully perform the duties of the office to which they
have been elected.
