Pennsylvania Act 1949-446 — CONCERNING FIREMEN IN SECOND CLASS A CITIES

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CONCERNING FIREMEN IN SECOND CLASS A CITIES
                 Act of May 20, 1949, P.L. 1489, No. 446              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for a two-platoon system for firemen employed and paid
        by cities of the second class A and fixing the maximum hours
        of service in any one day or week for such platoons, with
        certain exceptions.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The head of the department having charge of or
     supervision over the fire department or bureau in each city of
     the second class A shall divide the officers and members of
     companies of the uniformed fire force in the employ of such
     cities, excepting the superintendent, 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. The hours of day service shall not exceed fifty
     hours in any one calendar week and the hours of night service
     shall not exceed seventy hours in any one calendar week, unless
     the hours of day and night service shall be equalized, in which
     case neither the hours of day or night service shall exceed
     fifty-six in any one calendar week. In cases of riot, serious
     conflagration or other such emergency, the superintendent of the
     bureau of fire or his first assistant or the 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.
        (1 amended Sept. 29, 1951, P.L.1568, No.402)
        Section 2.  Nothing contained in this act shall be construed
     to repeal the act, approved the eighteenth day of June, one
     thousand nine hundred forty-one (Pamphlet Laws 131), entitled
     "An act requiring cities of the second class A having fire
     departments to allow members of said fire departments twenty-
     four consecutive hours of rest each week and fourteen days
     vacation with pay each year, except in emergency cases."
        Section 3.  The act, approved the thirtieth day of March, one
     thousand nine hundred fifteen (Pamphlet Laws 34), entitled "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," its
     amendments and supplements, is hereby repealed in so far as it
     applies to cities of the second class A.
        All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
     hereby repealed.
        Section 4.  The provisions of this act shall become effective
     on the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred fifty.