the same a substantial rail or guard which will prevent any danger from accidents, and to conspicuously place and maintain thereat during the night season a red light. Any person for whom said work is done, or the contractor or foreman doing or superintending the same, without placing said rail or guard and placing and maintaining said red light as herein provided, shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars and costs of prosecution. Penalty for failure. sign boards. Penalty. Defacing guards or SECTION 7. Any person defacing or removing any of the guards or sign-boards aforesaid, without having the authority therefore, shall be fined not less than five dollars and costs of prosecution . SECTION 8. That every person, who in this city, shall dig or cause to be dug, in or adjoining any of the public highways of said city, any excavation whatsoever, and every person digging or causing any such excavation to be dug, and every person who shall occupy or cause to be occupied, any portion of any public street or public highway, with building material, or any obstruction whatsoever, shall cause two red lights to be securely and conspicuously posted on or near such excavation, building material or other obstruction during the night season, one at each end, if the space so excavated or occupied by such building ma terial or other obstructions shall exceed fifty feet in extent, red then such person shall cause an additional light to be posted as aforesaid for every additional fifty feet in extent or portion thereof so excavated or occupied as aforesaid, and shall keep such red lights burning the entire night or nights during the continuance of such excavation or obstructions. How and when red lights may be placed. Neglecting to place or destroying red lights. Neglecting to place SECTION 9. Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 8 of this ordinance, or any person who shall remove or destroy any light or lights so posted on such excavations or obstructions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one nor more than fifty dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense. SECTION 10. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. (Feb. 15, 1893.) Penalty. FIRE DEPARTMENT. SECTION 1. That the Fire Department of the City of Personnel of Fire : Middletown, Ohio, shall be composed of the following officers and other members who shall receive the respective salaries hereinafter provided, payable semi-monthly out of the Fire Fund of said city and shall give their respective bonds hereinafter required. Department. Chief. First, the Chief of the Fire Department, who shall re- Salary and bond of ceive $1,000.00 per annum and shall give bond in the sum of $500.00. Second, one Assistant Chief and driver, who shall re- Assit. ceive $950.00 per annum and shall give bond in the sum of $500.00. Third, one Captain and driver, who shall receive Captain. $950.00 per annum and shall give bond in the sum of $500.00. Electrician. Fourth, one Electrician and fireman, who shall receive $950.00 per annum and shall give bond in the sum of $500.00. Firemen ard drivers. Fifth, eight firemen and drivers, who shall each receive nine hundred dollars per annum and shall each give" bond in the sum of five hundred dollars. SECTION 2. The Fire Department as constituted herein shall be classified by the Director of Public Safety as required by law. Sre. SECTION 3. Ordinance No. 339, entitled “An ordinance fixing the number and salaries and bonds of the members of the Fire Department of the City of Middletown, State of Ohio,” be and the same is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after April 1, 1911, but shall not effect the term of office or employment or rank or pay of any officer (Ord. Bk. 9, Page 283; Feb. 10, 1911.) Giving the fire department the right-of-way of the streets, lanes, alleys and railroad crossings in running to fires. SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Middletown: Fire department shall That the apparatus of the fire department shall have the right-of-way in and upon any streets, lanes, alleys or railroad crossings in pursuance of any alarm of fire. No person or persons shall obstruct or neglect or refuse to make way for any such apparatus being thus in or upon any of the said streets, lanes, alleys or railroad crossings. have right of way. Penalty. SECTION 2. Any person offending against any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than ten or exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. (Feb. 15, 1893.) VION Injuring fire hose. To protect the hose belonging to the fire department during fires. SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Middletown: That if any street railroad car, steam railroad locomotive or car, wagon, cart or other vehicle be driven or propelled over the hose belonging to the fire department of the City of Middletown, laid in the street or elsewhere at the occurrence of any fire in the city; or at any alarm of fire, the driver or owner of such vehicle or street car, or the engineer or person in charge of steam railroad locomotives or cars, shall be subject to prosecution before the Penalty. Mayor of said city, and upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars with costs of prosecution. SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication according to law. (Feb. 15, 1893.) To prevent injury to the fire alarm telegraph of the City of Middletown. . SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Middletown: That it shall be unlawful for any person to break, cut, Injuring fire alarm mis-place, remove or in any way injure any of the wires, posts, boxes, fixtures or apparatus, which, now or hereafter may, constitute a part of, or in any way belong or appertain to the fire alarm telegraph of said city. system. SECTION 2. Any one violating any part of this ordi- Penalty. nance and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than one dollar nor more than twenty-five dollars and costs of prosecution, and may be imprisoned for not more than thirty days, at the discretion of the Mayor. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication according to law. (Feb. 15, 1893.) To establish a Firemen's Pension Fund and to create a Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Middletown, State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That it is deemed necessary that a Fire-F men's Pension be established and maintained by the City of Middletown and said fund is hereby established. Establishment of pension funds. SECTION 2. That to maintain said fund there shall be Creation of fund. levied annually at the time and in the manner provided by law for other municipal levies, a tax of not more than three tenths of a mill on each dollar upon all real and personal property as listed for taxation in the City of Middletown, or said funds may be maintained as otherwise provided by law. Administration of fund. SECTION 3. The fund authorized to be raised by this ordinance shall be administered by a Board of Trustees who shall be known as “Trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund,” which board is hereby created. Said Board of Trustees shall consist of the Board or Officer having charge or control of the Fire Department, and five members of the Fire Department, provided that upon petition of a majority of the members of the Fire Department the Board or Officer having charge or control of the Fire Department may designate a less number than five members of said de. partment to be elected as Trustees of said Firemen's Pen. sion Fund. Board of Trustees. Designation of officers. SECTION 4. The presiding member of the Board or Officer having charge or control of the Fire Department shall be the President of the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund and the Clerk of the Officer having charge or control of the Fire Department shall be the Secretary of such board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund, and in case there be no clerk the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund shall appoint a secretary to keep a full record of all the proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund, and said Board of Trustees shall fix his compensation, which shall be paid out of said Pension Fund. Duty of secretary. of Board of Trustees. Election of members SECTION 5. As soon as possible after the adoption of this ordinance there shall be an election held for the purpose of choosing members of the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund at which all members of the Fire Department shall be eligible to vote and a notice of said election shall be posted in a conspicuous place by the officer having charge or control of the Fire Department at the different houses of the several companies composing said department, said election shall be held between the hours of nine A. M. and six P. M., and each person entitled to vote Notice of election. |