Pennsylvania Act 1915-17 — FIREMEN - TWO PLATOON SYSTEM IN SECOND CLASS CITIES

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FIREMEN, TWO PLATOON SYSTEM IN SECOND CLASS CITIES
                  Act of Mar. 30, 1915, P.L. 34, No. 17               Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     To promote the health and efficiency of firemen, in cities of
        the second class, by providing for a two-platoon system for
        firemen in the department of public safety of such cities.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 3 of Act 446 of 1949 provided that
            Act 17 is repealed insofar as it applies to cities of the
            second class A.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the head of the
     department of public safety, or of the department having charge
     of or supervision over the fire department or bureau, in each
     city of the first, second and third class shall, from and after
     the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred twenty,
     divide the officers and members of companies of the uniformed
     fire force in the employ of such cities, or, in the case of a
     volunteer fire department, the firemen and drivers regularly
     employed and paid by the city, excepting the chief engineer and
     assistant chiefs, into two shifts, bodies or platoons,--one to
     perform day service, and the other to perform night service. The
     hours of day service shall not exceed ten, commencing at eight
     o-clock in the morning; the hours of night service shall not
     exceed fourteen, commencing at six o-clock in the afternoon. In
     cases of riot, serious conflagration, or other such emergency,
     the chief engineer of the bureau of fire, or the assistant chief
     deputy, or chief officer in charge at any fire, shall have the
     power to assign all the members of the fire force to continuous
     duty, or to continue any member thereof on duty, if necessary.
     No member of either of said shifts, bodies or platoons shall be
     required to perform continuous day service or continuous night
     service for a longer consecutive period than two weeks; nor be
     kept on duty continuously longer than ten hours in the day
     shift, body or platoon, or fourteen hours in the night shift,
     body or platoon, excepting as may be necessary to equalize the
     hours of duty and service, and also excepting in cases of riot,
     serious conflagration, or other such emergency, as above
     provided: Provided, however, That this act shall not apply to
     employes who are employed subject to call. In any consecutive
     period of two weeks, no member of either of said shifts, bodies
     or platoons, in any city of the second class, shall be kept on
     duty for a total period which shall average over fifty-five
     hours in any one week of the consecutive period of two weeks.
        (1 amended May 21, 1953, P.L.195, No.14)
        Section 2.  The provisions hereof shall not repeal or affect
     any law or ordinance relating to salaries, vacations, sick or
     disability leave, or pay of members of fire departments, in
     cities to which this act applies.