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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.)