Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 23149. To purchase fire engines and organize fire department, etc.

To purchase fire engines, hooks, ladders, trucks, fire alarms and other apparatus for the extinction of fires;  to organize a fire department, with or without pay;  to make the necessary appropriation for the maintenance of the same, and to prescribe rules and regulations for the government of the officers and companies belonging thereto;  and, if a paid department, to provide by ordinance for the election or appointment of the officers and companies belonging thereto.