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ORDINANCE N0. ,458
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE VOLUNTEER FIRF:-ISN' S RELIEF
AND C01iPENSATIOI ND, PROVIDING THAT THE CITY OF PASCO CONFORM WITH
THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 121 OF TIM LAWS OF 1935 8F THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON, AS AIVIENDED BY CHAPTER 49 OF THE LkIS OF 1939, AND CREATING
A BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO BE KNOWN AS "TIDE PASCO BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
VOLUNTEER FIREIcIEN' S RELIEF AND COLD:IENSATI ON FUND", AND REPEALING ORDIN-
AICE NO. 452.
The City Council of the City of Pasco, Washington does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. That the City of Pasco now elects to conform with
all the provisions of an act of the Legislature of the State of Wash-
ington approved by the Governor on March 20, 1935, being Chapter 121
of the Session Latins of 1935, as the same is amended by Chapter 49 of
the Session Laws of 1939, the same being "An act relating to and
creating a fund in the State Treasury to be knovm as the Volunteer
Firemen's Relief and Compensation Fund; designating the duties of
certain officials; providing for relief and compensation for volunteer
firemen; creating a Board of Trustees in each municipality for the
maintenance and distribution of said fund; empowering municipalities
to limit the membership of said volunteer fire departments and requiring
medical and physical examinations for members of said fire department"
in order that the City of Pasco and the members of the regularly
organized volunteer fire department maintained therein may participate
in the benefits prescribed in said act.
SECTION 2. That the membership of t�ie r=egularly organized
volunteer fire department of the City of Pasco be and the same is
hereby limited to twenty (20) firemen for each one thousand (1000)
population of said city.
SECTION 3. That pursuant to the provisions of the act
referred to in Section 1 of this ordinance, there is hereby created
and estab;ished a Board of Trustees of the Volunteer Firemen's Relief
and Compensation Fund to be knovra as "The Pasco Board of Trustbes of
the Volunteer Firemen's Relief and Compensation Fund"; that such
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board shall consist of the Mayor, City Clerk and one councilman
of the City of Pasco, to be chosen by the City Council, the
Chief of the .sire Department and one member of said fixe
department, which one member shall be elected by the members
of said fire department for a term of one (1) year and annually
thereafter.
SECTION 4. The Board of Trustees hereby created shall have all
of the powers and perform all the duties conferred and imposed
upon it by the provisions of the act referred to in Section 1
of this ordinance and said act is by reference incorporated
herein and made a part hereof.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
five days after its passage, approval and publication.
SECTION 6. Ordinance No. 452 is hereby repealed.
Passed and approved this day of January, 1940.
Payor
ATTEST:
City Clerk.
Approved as to orm:
City Vii. orney