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ORDINANCE NO.
STATE OF TEXAS I
COUNTY OF TARRANT I
TOWN OF COLLEYVILLE I
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AN ORDINANCE CREATING AND ESTABLISHING A
FIRE DE PAR TMENT FOR T HE TOWN OF COLLEY-
VILLE, TEXAS; DEFINING THE DUTIES THEREOF;
AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF ALL OF THE
EQUIPMENT HERETOFORE BELONGING TO THE
COLLEYVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DE PAR TMENT.
INC.; PROVIDING A SAVING AND SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN
OF COLLEYVILLE. TEXAS:
SECTION 1. There is hereby created and established for the
Town of Colleyville, Texas, a Department to be known as the Fire Depart-
ment, with functions and dutie s as hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 2. The Fire Department shall consist of a Fire Chief
and such other firemen as may be thereafter employed.
SECTION 3. The duties of the Fire Department of the Town of
Colleyville, Texas, shall be to fight, contain and extinguish all uncontrolled
fires within the City Limits of the Town of Colleyville, and at such other
places outside thereof as may be designated by the Town Council; to plan
and enforce fire prevention measures; to train its personnel in the fire
fighting and containment of uncontrolled fires, and to perform such other
duties as the Town Council may prescribe, specifically with relation to
public catastrophe or disaster.
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SECTION 4. The purchase by the Town of Colleyville of all of
the fire fighting equipment heretofore belonging to the Colleyville Volunteer
Fire Department. Inc. is hereby authorized, and such property shall here-
after be public property belonging to the Town of Colleyville, Tarrant County,
Texa s.
SECTION 5. The members of , the Colleyville Volunteer Fire
Department, Inc. are hereby designated as the Volunteer Fire Department
of the Town of Colleyville, Texas. and shall function in accordance with
the Ordinances of the Town of Colleyville, and the applicable Statutes of
the State of Texas.
SECTION 6. If any part or parts of this Ordinance is or are held
void by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the
remaining part or parts hereof, but all valid parts shall remain in full force
and effect.
SECTION 7. The extreme necessity of an adequate fire fighting
force in the Town of Colleyville creates an urgency and an emergency in
the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and welfare, and
requires that this Ordinance take effect immediately from and after its pas-
sage, and it is accordingly so ordained.
on this
PASSED by the Town Council of the Town of Colleyville, Texas,
If!!!day of JANUARY, A.D., 1961.
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MAYOR, Town of Colleyville, Texas
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