A discription of membership and duties, as described in Colts Neck Township Municipal Code, secion 28-6

A. Membership.

(1) All members of the fire companies as now constituted may continue as members thereof.

(2) All new members of the Fire Department and of the constituent Fire Company shall be at least 18 years of age and in good physical condition. Each new member seeking enrollment in the Fire Department of the Township of Colts Neck shall represent that he or she is in good physical health. All applicants for membership shall successfully pass a physical examination and present a certificate executed by a practicing physician of the State of New Jersey attesting to the ability of such applicant. to perform the duties of an active or associate firefighter within the Township of Colts Neck. All applicants are subject to a background investigation, including an investigation of criminal, driving and police records to the extent permitted by law. The Fire Department reserves the right to reject any application if such investigation reveals that the applicant's driving record, criminal record or moral character would be detrimental to the Fire Department or to the Township of Colts Neck.
[Amended 12-26-1974; 10-30-1980; 10-28-1982; 2-24-1983; 3-9-1994; 10-8-1997]

(3) Every person seeking to join the Fire Department shall make an application to the company which he or she desires to join, and, upon his or her election to membership according to the rules of the company he or she is joining and confirmation by the Executive Fire Council, he or she shall become a member in good standing of the Fire Department, and his or her name shall be entered on a roll of firefighters of the Township of Colts Neck. He or she shall be given a badge of membership in his or her unit by his or her company and a Fire Department ID upon satisfactory completion of his or her probation period. The Fire Department ID shall be in his or her possession and the badge shall be worn at all times when on duty, and both said ID and badge shall be delivered up to his or her company Secretary at any time upon or whenever he or she shall be suspended pending departmental or other charges involving moral turpitude or neglect of duty or found guilty of any charge resulting in the suspension or removal of such person from membership or for any cause shall cease to be a firefighter. Every member who satisfactorily completes 20 years of active service shall be designated a life member of the Fire Department.
[Amended 3-9-1994]

(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 28-6A(2), aforesaid, each Fire Company may accept applications for membership from persons willing and able to perform duties as Fire Police, company administrative officers and other positions designated by the Fire Company who, by reasons of health or other, cannot undergo the requirements of an active firefighter. Each company may limit the number of members accepted under this subsection and shall designate those accepted as associate members.
[Amended 10-30-1980; 7-25-1985; 12-19-1991]

(5) The above-described residency requirements may be waived at the discretion of the individual companies for good cause. "Good cause" is defined as when an individual meeting all other qualifications is employed full-time within the Township of Colts Neck and expresses an interest in becoming an active member of the Fire Department of the Township of Colts Neck; or when a member in good standing of an individual company moves to another community and expresses an interest in remaining an active member of the Fire Department of the Township of Colts Neck, when he or she meets all other requirements. Residency requirements do not apply to § 28-6, Membership; duties. [Added 3-9-1994]

B. Duties. [Amended 10-30-1980; 3-9-1994]

(1) Every applicant to the Fire Department must successfully complete the State of New Jersey mandated initial firefighter or Fire Police training and also successfully complete the probationary period designated by his or her Fire Company to be considered a qualified active or associate firefighter in good standing. Every active or associate member of the Fire Department shall in each and every year perform at least 60% of duty, to be composed of actual attendance and duty at fires, drills and meetings, and a record shall be kept of such attendance and duty by the company Captains and the Chief of the Fire Department and reported to the Township Committee annually to qualify for exempt certificates, state benefits and to maintain his or her good standing.

(2) It shall be the duty of an active or associate firefighter, whenever any fire shall break out in the township, to report immediately upon the alarm to his or her respective company firehouse and to perform such duties or transport fire apparatus to the place where such fire shall happen unless otherwise directed by the Department Chief or Deputy Chief or his or her company officers. While on duty he or she shall follow Fire Department Standard Operating Procedures and conform with the directions given by the officer in charge to manage the said fire apparatus or perform other assigned duties with all his or her skill and power, and, when the fire is extinguished, he or she shall not leave except by direction being given by the officer in charge, and he or she shall return to his or her company firehouse with said fire apparatus or to other assigned duties. It shall be the duty of all members of the Fire Department to prevent all persons not belonging to the Department from entering any building or handling any apparatus belonging to the Department, except as hereinafter provided. Every person, not a firefighter, who shall be present at a fire shall be subject to and obedient to the orders of the Department Chief or Deputy Chief or the officer in charge or, in their absence, to the Fire Police or to any officer of any Fire Company acting under the Chief's direction in extinguishing a fire, preserving order and removing and protecting property.

(3) It shall be the duty of the officer and members of each company to prevent any person not a firefighter from riding on the apparatus in going to or from any fire or alarm of fire.