Article II. Fire Department.[135]
Sec. 12-9. Repealed by Ordinance of August 19, 1974.
Sec. 12-9.1. Composition; direction and control.
The Charlottesville Fire Department shall be composed of a
volunteer organization known and designated as the
Charlottesville Fire Company, and a corps of paid full time
employees, employed by the city manager. Such entire
department shall be subject generally to the direction and control
of a full time paid officer, appointed by the city manager, to be
entitled chief of the fire department; provided, however, that such
officer shall exercise control over the volunteer company and its
members only at the scene of a fire. The chief of the fire
department is empowered to designate such subordinate officers
among the paid employees as he may deem appropriate. (8-19-74,
§ 2.)
Sec. 12-9.2. Officers of volunteer company.
At its regular meeting in August of each year, or as soon
thereafter as may be practicable, the volunteer company shall
elect from among its members a chief of the fire company and
such other volunteer officers as it may deem appropriate, whose
terms of office shall commence on the first of September next
following, and shall communicate the names of the officers
so elected to the city manager and city council. Such
volunteer officers shall have full direction and control over
the members of the volunteer company at all times except as
provided in this article for conduct at the scene of a fire. (8-19-74,
§ 2.)
Sec. 12-9.3. Powers and duties of chief.
The chief of the fire department, or in his absence the next
ranking full time paid fire department officer with the rank of
captain or above, shall be in full authority and have complete
supervision of all equipment and personnel in attendance at a
fire. The chief and other officers of the volunteer company shall
exercise direct supervision and control over volunteer personnel
during a fire, but shall receive direction and instructions from the
full time officers with the rank of captain or above. In the event
no full time paid officer with the rank of captain or above is on
the fireground, then a volunteer officer with the rank of captain
or above will be in charge.
It shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department to keep a
record of all fires, their place and time of occurrence, and to
ascertain if possible the amount of insurance, if any, and actual
loss, and make a report thereof to the city manager for each
month by the tenth of the next month. This monthly report shall
show, in addition, the general condition of the fire department
together with an inventory of all apparatus and equipment and
the condition and estimated value thereof and such other
information as the chief may deem proper or the city manager
may require. He shall also make such reports to the state
commissioner of insurance as may be required of him by state
law. A monthly volunteer attendance report shall be made each
month to the Volunteer Company. The chief of the fire
department shall deliver to his successor in office all records
pertaining to the department which may be in his control.
The chief of the fire department shall have charge of the
firehouse and apparatus, and shall see that the apparatus is kept
in good condition and ready at any and all times to respond to a
call and properly cared for at and after returning from a fire, that
the hose is properly dried out, that the house is properly cared for,
and perform such other duties as may be necessary to keep the
firehouse and apparatus in good condition. (8-19-74, § 2.)
Secs. 12-10 to 12-12. Repealed by Ordinance of August 19, 1974.
