CITATIONS FOR BACKGROUND
(1) History of Firefighting in America
300 Years of Courage
Dennis Smith Dial Press, 1978, p. 1 - 9
ISBN: 0-517-4600-11
(2) Fire Engines Firefighters
The Men, Equipment Machines from Colonial Days
Paul C. Ditzel
Bonanza Books, 1984, p. 16 - 35
ISBN: 0-8037-2538-8
(3) The Volunteer Fire Company
Ernest Earnest
Stein and Day, 1979, p. 8 - 17
ISBN: 0-8128-2532-2
(4) IBID (#1) above, p. 11 & 16
(5) IBID (#3) above, p. 8 - 26
(Note: p. 20, 3rd paragraph identifies 30 members, however Charter or Articles of Association of the Union Fire Company of Philadelphia lists 25 members), see p. l6 - 17
(6) Records of the Relief Fire Company No. 1, Mount Holly, N.J
Volume #1, 1752 - 1805
(7) IBID
(8) IBID (#3) above, p. 16 - 17
Also: Philadelphia Historical Society
Relief Fire Company No. 1
17 Pine Street
Mount Holly, N.J.
(9) Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan
Yale University Press, 2002, p. 57 - 58
ISBN 0-300-0952-5
Benjamin Franklin, An American Life
Walter Jacobson
Simon and Schuster, 2000, p. 105
ISBN 0-684-80761-1
The Autobiography and Other Writings
Benjamin Franklin, p. 96 - 97
Edited by Peter Shaw
Bantam Books
ISBN 0-563-21075-0
(10) IBID (#1) above, p. 11 &
IBID (#2) above, p. 24 - 31 & p. 32 - 35
(11) Records: Relief Fire Company No. 1
Volume No. 1
(12) IBID (#2) above, p. 11 & p. 21 - 29
(13) Records: Relief Fire Company No. 1
Volume No. 1
(14) IBID (#3) above, p. 16 - 17
(15) IBID (#1) above, p. 5
(16) Records: Relief Fire Company No. 1
Volume No. 1
(17) Brochure: Working Hand in Hand
The Philadelphia Contributionship and the Fire Companies
(no date), p. 16 - 20
(18) IBID (#17) above
(19) IBID (#17) above &
IBID (#2) above, p. 20
(20) IBID (#10) above, p. 10
(21) The Contributionship Companies
2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA
(22) Laws of the State of New Jersey
Laws of 1826, p. 144
‘Tax on Foreign Fire Insurance Companies’
ctr
CITATIONS FOR TAXES AND RELIEF
(1) Laws of 1826, “An ACT relative to insurance companies.”
Passed December 26,1826, p. 144 (Hoods, ‘General Tax Act’)
(2) Records: Township of Mount Holly, N.J.
(formerly ‘Bridgetown’ & ‘Northampton’)
Mount Holly Township Clerk, Washington Street, Mount Holly, N.J.,
New Jersey State Archives, State Street, Trenton, N.J.
Records: Township of Burlington
(‘City of Burlington’)
Township Clerks Office, Municipal Building,
Old York Road, Burlington Township N.J.
(3) IBID (#1) above, Sec. #2, p. 144 - 145
(4) IBID (#1) above, Sec. #3, p. l45
(5) County Clerks Office:
Burlington County
Mercer County
Morris County
Salem County
Miscellaneous files
Not for profit files
(6) New Jersey State Legislative Library
State House Annex, Trenton, N.J.
(Peter Mezzei, Director)
“Budgets and Appropriations”, 1826 - 1868
(7) Laws of 1845, adopted March 26,1845, p 166 - 167
“An act to amend an at entitled, ‘An act relative to insurance companies’
passed December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six.
” Laws of 1846, adopted January 29, 1846, p. 4 - 5
“A supplement to ‘An act relative to insurance companies’
passed December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-sixth,
and to an act to amend the same passed March twenty sixth,
eighteen hundred and forty-five.”
(8) Laws of 1850, adopted March 5, 1850, p. 183 - 184
“A supplement to an act entitled, ‘An act relative to Insurance
companies, ‘approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six.”
(9) IBID (#8) above, Sec. 5, p. 184
(10) Laws of 1857, Cp. II, adopted February 6, 1857, p. 7 - 8
“A further supplement to an act entitled ‘An act relative to insurance
companies,’ approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six.”
(11) Newark Daily News, February 26, 1874, item entitled ‘One More Appeal’
(12) Laws of 1860, Cp. CLI (151), adopted March 18, 1860, p. 411
“An act to regulate the Business of fire insurance companies
or associations Not incorporated by the state.”
(13) Laws of 1867, Cp. CCCXXXVII (337), adopted April 19, 1867, p. 776
“An act to regulate the business of fire, life, accident, marine and live stock
Insurance by companies or associations incorporated by this State.”
(14) Laws of Pennsylvania, Purdon’s Pennsylvania Statutes Annotated,
Title 72, Taxation and Fiscal Affairs, Cp. 5
(15) Laws of New York, McKinney’s Consolidated Law, Book 27
Insurance Law 9104, sc. 41.5
(16) Mercer County Clerks Office
Trenton, N.J.
Book: Volume A Corporations, p. 59
(17) Records: Trenton Fire Department
(18) IBID (#11) above
(19) Laws of 1879, Cp. CLXXIVC174, p. 284, adopted March 14, 1879
“An act to facilitate the collection of certain premiums for the benevolent
funds of fire departments of cities from fire insurance companies
not organized under the laws of this state, but doing business herein.”
(20) Records: Jersey City Fire Department
“The Exempt Firemen’s Association of Old Jersey City”
Care N.J.S.F.A., 1700 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, N.J.
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CITATIONS FOR CHAPTER ONE
(1) Records: N.J.S.F.A., 1700 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, N.J.
“Notice of meeting, Headquarters Board of Representatives
Newark Fire Department, Newark, NJ”
(2) Laws of 1879, Cp. CLXXXIV, adopted March 14, 1879, Sec. 2, p. 285
(3) Laws of 1850, Cp ( no ref. ), adopted March 5, 1850, p. 183
(4) Laws of 1857, Cp.II, adopted February 6, 1857, Sec. 1 - 2, p. 7
(5) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
First (1st) Convention and Meeting
May 22, 1879
Newark, N.J.
(6) IBID p. 7
(7) IBID p. 8
(8) IBID p. 8
(9) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
First (1st) Annual Convention
September 24, 1879
Trenton, N.J.
(10) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Second (2nd) Annual Convention
September 22, 1880
Paterson, N.J.
(11) IBID p. 15
(12) IBID p. 16
(13) Newspaper clipping & report
History of Trenton, New Jersey, 1871, p. 390 - 391
Records Trenton Fire Department
Trenton Historical Society, Trenton, N.J.
(14) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Second (2nd) Annual Convention
September 22, 1880
(15) IBID p. 19
(16) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Third (3rd) Annual Convention
September 28, 1881
Burlington, N.J., p. 22
(17) IBID
(18) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifth (5th) Annual Convention
September 26, 1883
Dover, N.J., p. 45 - 46
(19) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Minutes of the Executive Committee
March 4, 1884, p. 50
(20) Laws of 1885, Cp. CXXII (142), adopted March 4, 1885
N.J.S.A. 43: 17-1 et seq.
(21) Laws of 1885, Cp. CCXL (260), adopted May 2, 1885
N.J.S.A. 18: 1- et seq.
(22) The numbering of the Conventions changed in Hoboken
on September 24, 1884, as it listed this Convention as the “Seventh”
Convention when the previous Convention at Dover was listed as
the “Fifth” and therefore there is/was no “Sixth” Convention listed.
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CITATIONS FOR CHAPTER TWO
(1) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fiftieth (50th) Anniversary Records and Program
Historical, East Orange, N.J., p. 5
(2) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Executive Committee Records
May 12, 1886, p. 100
(3) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Tenth (10th) Annual Convention
New Brunswick, N.J., September 28, 1887, p. 127
(4) Laws of 1898, Cp. 127, #10, p. 214
(5) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fourteenth (14th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 30, 1893, p. 8
(6) Laws of 1889, Cp. 10, p. 19, dated Feb. 25, 1889
(7) Laws of 1894, Cp. CCL VII (257), p. 383, dated May 15, 1894
(8) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifteenth (15th) Annual Convention
Trenton, N.J., September 28, 1892, p. 21
(9) Laws of 1906, Cp. 196, p. 374, dated May 2, 1906
N.J.S.A. 43: 17-35
(10) Passaic Firemen’s Relief Association v. Smith
94 NJL 370, (1920)
Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-fourth (44th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 24, 1921, p. 11, also,
Forty-Third (43rd) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 15, 1920, p. 2
(11) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-Fifth (45th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 15, 1910, p. 66
(12) Laws of 1915, Cp. 267, p. 472, dated April 12, 1915
(13) Laws of 1915, Cp. 268, p. 473, dated April 12, 1915
(14) IBID (#10) above, Also: Fauncev. Firemen’s Benevolent Association
Wesscott v. Passaic Firemen’s Relief Association, 91 NJL 501
Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Thirty-Third (33rd) Annual Convention
September 15, 1910, p. 2 (check page)
(15) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-Third (43rd) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J. September 17, 1920, p. 30
(16) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-Fourth (44th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J. September 24, 1921, p. 24
(17) IBID p. 45
(18) Laws of 1922, Cp. 75, p. 143, dated March 11, 1922
Laws of 1922, Cp.76, p. 144, dated March 11, 1922
N.J.S.A. 43: 17-36
Laws of 1922, Cp. 77, p. 145, dated March 11, 1922
(19) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-Fifth (45th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J. September 22, 1922, p. 48 and 63 - 65
(20) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-Sixth (46th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J. September 21, 1923, p. 23 - 24
(21) IBID p.35
(22) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-Fourth (44th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J. September 24, 1921, p. 9
(23) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-Eighth (48th) Annual Convention
September 18, 1925, p. 14
(24) IBID, p. 26
(25) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Third (53rd) Annual Convention
September 19, 1930, p. 10
(26) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Fourth (54th) Annual Convention
September 18, 1931, p. 5
(27) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Seventh (57th) Annual Convention
September 20, 1935, p. 44
(28) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Sixty-Second (62nd) Annual Convention
September 15, 1939, p. 26 - 27
(29) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Sixty-Third (63rd) Annual Convention
September 13, 1940, p. 34
(30) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Sixty-Fifth (65th), Sixty-Sixth (66th), Sixty-Seventh (67th),
Sixty-Eighth (68th), Sixty-Ninth (69th) and Seventieth (70th)
Annual Conventions
(31) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Seventy-Eighth (78th) Annual Convention
September 16, 1955
(32) Laws of 1955, Cp. 204, p. 810, adopted September 15, 1955
Adopted March 15, 1956
(33) IBID
(34) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Eightieth (80th) Annual Convention
September 13, 1957, p. 21, also
IBID Executive Committee Report, p. 54
(35) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Eighty-Sixth (86th) Annual Convention
September 13, 1963, p. 3 & 9
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CITATIONS FOR CHAPTER THREE
(1) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
One Hundred Seventh (107th) Annual Convention
Wildwood, N.J., September 14, 1984, p. 43 - 50
(2) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
IBID, p. 57 - 58 & p. 94
(3) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
One Hundred Eighth (108th) Annual Convention
Wildwood, N.J., September 13, 1985, p. 99 - 100
(4) Laws of 1985, Cp. 294 §1, eff. Aug. 15, 1985, N.J.S.A. 54: 18A-6
(5) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
IBID (#3) above
(6) Szabo v. N.J.S.F.A.,
230 NJ Super 265 (1988), p. 372
(7) IBID p. 373
(8) Bergen Record, (articles starting), April 1987,
Numerous articles covering 2 - 3 years, by: Jim Consoli
(9) Honorable Arthur J. Lesemann, JSC,
Opinion: June 12, 1988,
Order: September 21, 1988,
Judgment: October 23, 1988, Docket No. C- 1962-87
(10) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Executive Committee Report, February 1989
(11) State of New Jersey
Division Civil Rights
Williams v.Township of Jackson Fire Dept.
Docket No. EQ 11 AM – 26564-A – Age Discrimination
(12) (a) United States Statute, Age Discrimination in Employment Act,
29 USCA §621, et seq.
(b) New Jersey Firemen & Police,
N.J.S.A. 40A: 14-12 and 40A: 14-127
New Jersey State Police N.J.S.A. 53: 1-8.2
(c) Opinion Parker McCay, July 8, 2005, re: membership criteria
(13) Arena v. N.J.S.F.A.
Superior Court of New Jersey, Middlesex County
Docket C-135-95, 19
Overweight Firefighter
New Jersey Law Against Discrimination – Applied
Hearn v.N.J.S.F.A.– Docket No. 99-CV-2848 (JAP)
United States District Court, Camden, N.J.
Honorable Joel A. Pisano, United States Magistrate Judge
Opinion: Federal Law Against Discrimination
N.J.S.F.A. not employee under Federal Act
United States Act Against Disability
(14) New Jersey Senate, Law and Public Safety Committee
Honorable Louis Kosko, Chairman
Hearings: June, 23, 1994 & July 21, 1994
(15) Laws of 1996, Up. 151, Sec. 3, et f. March 1, 1997
N.J.S.A. 43: 17- 1 et.seq.
(16) Laws of 1997, Cp. 41, Sec. 1, eff. July 1, 1997
N.J.S.A. 54: 18-l et seq.
Also N.J.S.A. 54: 17-1 et seq. was repealed.
(17) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
ISO Contract dated January 4, 1991
(18) IBID
Factory Mutual Engineering Company dated September 3, 1990
(19) Surplus Lines Insurance
Laws of 1960, Cp. 32, p. 119
N.J.S.A. 17: 22-6.59
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CITATIONS FOR CHAPTER FOUR
(1) Laws of 1885, Cp. CXXII (122), p. 144, dated March 25, 1885
(2) IBID, Sec. 27, p.154
(3) IBID, Sec. 28, p. 155
(4) IBID, Sec. 26, p. 154
(5) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Historical Records, New Jersey State Firemen’s Association
Fiftieth (50th) Anniversary Booklet
(6) Compendium of Information Concerning the Firemen’s Relief Associations
and the Firemen of the State of New Jersey
Birrell - Brown and Company, 1915
Constitution and By-Laws, Article II Officers, p. 32
(7) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-First (41st) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 20, 1918, p. 92
(8) Laws of 1906, Cp. 196, p. 374 - 376, dated May 2, 1906
N.J.S.A. 43: 17-45
(9) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Thirty-Sixth (36th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 11, 1913, p. 52 - 53
(10) Laws of 1915, Cp. 268, p. 473, dated April 12, 1915
N.J.S.A. 43: 17-36
(11) Laws of 1922, Cp. 75, p. 143, dated March 11, 1922
N.J.S.A. 43: 17-35
(12) Compendium of Information Concerning the Firemen’s Relief Association
of the State of New Jersey
Birrell - Brown and Company (1915)
(13) IBID p. 32 - 36
(14) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Forty-Second (42nd) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 19, 1919, p. 26 - 34
Article II, Sec. 4
(15) Book of Information for Firemen of the State of New Jersey
1930, Published the New Jersey State Firemen’s Association
Bird W. Spencer, President.
Election of Vice Presidents, Sec. 4, p. 67
(16) New Jersey State Firemen’s Association, Compendium 1940
Article II, Sec. 1 - 8, p. 26
(17) New Jersey State Firemen’s Association, Compendium 1980
Article II, Sec. 1 - 8
(18) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Second (52nd) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 20, 1929, p. 85
(19) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Third (53rd) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 19, 1930, p. 16
(20) New Jersey State Firemen’s Association, Compendium 2005
Adopted November 20, 2004
(21) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Fifth (55th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 16, 1932, p. 7
(22) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Sixth (56th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 22, 1933, p. 20
(23) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Seventh (57th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 2, 1934, p. 105 - 106
(24) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Sixty-Ninth (69th) Annual Convention
Trenton, N.J., September 14, 1946, p. 76 - 77
(25) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Seventy-Second (72nd) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 10, 1949, p. 66 & p. 116 - 117
(26) IBID, p. 116 - 117
(27) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Seventy-First (71st) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 18, 1948, p. 13, 24 - 25, & 99 - 100
(28) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Sixty-Third (63nd) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 13, 1940, p. 31 & p. 104 - 106
(29) N.J.S.A. 43: 17-26 & 27
43: 17-35 & 36
43: 17-45,
and Constitution and By-Laws, Article II, Sec. 1 - 8, p. 5 - 6
(30) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Seventh (57th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 21, 1934, p. 31
(31) Book of Information for Firemen of the State of New Jersey, 1930
Constitution and By-Laws
Election of Vice Presidents, Sec. 4, p. 69, and see also, Compendium 2005
Constitution and By-Laws, General Relief Fund Rules
Article III, Sec. 12, 14 & 15, p.25
(32) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
One Hundred Nineteenth (119th) Annual Convention
Wildwood, N.J., September 13, 1996, p. 79
(33) Executive Committee Minutes, Executive Session
February 28, 2004 “CONFIDENTIAL”
Personnel Action
(34) Compendium 2005
Constitution and By-Laws
Article II, Sec. 1, p. 5
(35) IBID, Article II, Sec. 9, p.25
(36) Executive Committee Minutes
May 21, 2005, p. 57, & Exhibit XXII
(37) Executive Committee Minutes
February 25, 1984, p. 23
(38) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Nineteenth (19th) Annual Convention
Cape May, N.J., September 30, 1896, p. 84 - 86
(39) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
One Hundred Twelfth (112th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 12, 1997, p. 92
(40) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Tenth (10th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 28, 1887, p. 79
(41) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Fifty-Fourth (54th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 18, 1931, p. 92
(42) IBID p. 92
(43) Records: N.J.S.F.A.
Sixtieth (60th) Annual Convention
Atlantic City, N.J., September 17, 1937, p. 114
(44) IBID (#39) above, p 89
(45) Compendium 2005
Constitution and By-Laws
Article II, Sec. 3 & 4, p. 6
(46) IBID, Sec. 7, 8 & 9, p. 6