35-102.

Volunteer fire department; number of members; apparatus.

No volunteer fire department shall have upon its rolls at one time more than twenty-five persons, for each engine and hose company in such fire department, and no hook and ladder company shall have upon its rolls at any one time more than twenty-five members. No organization shall be deemed to be a bona fide fire or hook and ladder company until it has procured for active service apparatus for the extinguishment or prevention of fires, in case of a hose company, to the value of seven hundred dollars, and of a hook and ladder company to the value of five hundred dollars.