Company Officer Ch 3

Question 1

How many FD’s are there in this country?

Answer 1

30,000+

Question 2

Who is at the top of an organizational chart?

Answer 2

Citizens/Electorate

Question 3

A law usually found in the municipal code is a what?

Answer 3

local ordninance

Question 4

Laws passed by congress are called

Answer 4

Statutes

Question 5

How many forms of government are there at the local level?

Answer 5

Five

Question 6

What form of local government is the one that most closely resembles that of the federal government?

Answer 6

Mayor-council

Question 7

What is the oldest form of government in America?

Answer 7

commission

Question 8

How many special districts are there in the US?

Answer 8

31,555

Question 9

The development of what form of government may have been the most significant step in improving the performance and credibility of local government?

Answer 9

council-manager

Question 10

Statutes enacted by congress or state legislatures that authorize the creation of administrative agencies and provide the legal authority for the agency to operate.

Answer 10

enabling acts

Question 11

Laws that are created by administrative agencies pursuant to authority delegated by the legislature. They are the rules that carry the weight of law and are designed to carry out the quasi-legislative authority of the agency.

Answer 11

regulations

Question 12

Volunteer FF’s make up about what % of all FF’s?

Answer 12

74%

Question 13

Which FD comprises the largest collective FD in the US?

Answer 13

Federal FF’s

Question 14

Approx number of FF’s in the US?

Answer 14

1,000,000

Question 15

FF’s respond to approx how many calls annually?

Answer 15

20,000,000

Question 16

What is the population max for a “rural community”?

Answer 16

2,500 ppl

Question 17

What % of rural communities are protected by volunteer FD’s?

Answer 17

99%

Question 18

Departments with more than ____% of their employees in staff positions should look at how they are doing business.

Answer 18

10%

Question 19

Organizational concept that refers to the interrupted series of steps or layers within an organization

Answer 19

Scalar principle

Question 20

Activities that support those providing emergency services.

Answer 20

Staff functions

Question 21

Characteristic of organizational structures denoting the replationship between supervisors and subordinates.

Answer 21

Line authority