95.500 Powers and duties of chief of fire department -- Hours of work and annual
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leave of firefighters -- Applicable to urban-county governments and cities on
DLG's registry of cities that belonged to the second class on August 1, 2014.
(1)The chief of the fire department in cities or urban-county governments, or an officer
acting under his or her authority:
(a)Shall be present at all fires and investigate their cause;
(b)May examine witnesses, compel the production of testimony, administer
oaths, make arrests, and enter any building for the purpose of examination
that, in his or her opinion, is in danger from fires; and
(c)Shall report his or her proceedings to the city legislative body when required.
(2)The chief shall:
(a)Direct and control the operations of the members of the fire department in the
discharge of their duties;
(b)Have access to and use of all cisterns, fireplugs, the waters of the waterworks,
and the cisterns of private persons, for the purpose of extinguishing fires;
(c)Have the right to examine all cisterns, and all plugs and pipes of the
waterworks, to see that they are in condition for use in case of fire;
(d)Have control of all buildings, hose, engines, and other equipment provided for
the fire department; and
(e)Perform such other duties as the legislative body shall, by ordinance,
prescribe.
(a)The fire department of each city listed on the registry pursuant to subsection
(5)of this section or urban-county government shall be divided into three
platoons of firefighters. Each platoon, excluding the chief, the assistant chief,
clerical employees, maintenance employees, fire inspectors, fire investigators,
and arson investigators, in fire departments in the cities listed on the registry
or in urban-county governments, shall be on duty for:
1. Twenty-four
(24)consecutive hours, after which the platoon serving
twenty-four
(24)hours shall be allowed to remain off duty for forty-
eight
(48)consecutive hours;
2. Unless otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement, be on
forty-eight
(48)consecutive hours, after which the platoon serving forty-
eight
(48)consecutive hours shall be allowed to remain off duty for the
following ninety-six
(96)consecutive hours; or
3. Unless otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement, twenty-
four
(24)hours, after which the platoon serving twenty-four
(24)hours
shall be allowed to remain off duty for seventy-two
(72)hours, after
which that platoon shall be on duty again for forty-eight
(48)hours, then
shall be allowed to remain off duty again for seventy-two
(72)hours;
except in cases of dire emergency. The chief of the fire department shall
arrange the schedule of working hours to comply with the provisions of this
section. The pay, rank, or benefits of the members and officers of the fire
department shall not be reduced as a result of this subsection.
(b)Notwithstanding paragraph
(a)of this subsection, any city or urban-county
government that maintains a collective bargaining agreement with members
of its fire department may reach an agreement with the bargaining unit to
establish an alternative staffing and scheduling plan for the operation of its
fire department.
(c)Any change in a work schedule made pursuant to this subsection shall not
result in a decrease in the compensation of firefighters, exclusive of
unscheduled overtime.
(4)In each city or urban-county government listed on the registry, all employees of the
fire department shall be given not less than two
(2)weeks leave of absence
annually, with full pay.
(5)On or before January 1, 2015, the Department for Local Government shall create a
registry of cities that shall be required to comply with the provisions of subsections
(3)and
(4)of this section. The Department for Local Government shall include
each of those cities on the registry that were classified as cities of the second class
on August 1, 2014. The Department for Local Government shall make the
information included on the registry available to the public by publishing it on its
website.