Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 33. FIRE PROTECTION

Part 41. Municipal Fire Departments

Authority To Suspend Firefighters

7-33-4123. Authority to suspend firefighters. (1) The mayor or manager may suspend the chief and assistant or any firefighter of the fire department for neglect of duty or a violation of any of the rules of the fire department.

(2) The chief of the fire department may suspend the assistant chief of the fire department or any firefighter for like cause.

(3) The assistant chief of the fire department may suspend any firefighter for a like cause.

History: En. Sec. 3, p. 74, L. 1899; re-en. Sec. 3328, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 5111, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5111, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Secs. 3 and 4, Ch. 151, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 489, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 11-1903(part).