HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 7, Page 343, Ordinance Number 1250
Ordinance
TO THE HONOPIi➢I . MAYOR & BOARD OF COI'.7,:ISSIOI!F7_RS,
CITY OF PADUCiJ1, Y.Y.;
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The undersipned qualified and legal voters of the City of Paducah,'
living at the street and number set opposite our respective names, hereby
petition your Honorable Board to either pass or submit to the qualified
voters of the City of Paducah, Ky., at the neat iiover.ibe-r election, the
ordinance hereto attached, regulating the qualifications of the employees
in the various departments of the city government and providing that'ti-c•
appointment of such employees shall be under what is known as the Civil
Service rules, regulations and qualifications, and that the said ordinance
shall apply to the following employees, to -wit; all employees of the
Fire Department of said city, all employees of the Police Department
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thereof, all employees of the City Light Plant, the Karket I,Iaster, License
Inspector, City Clerk, City Stenographer or Stenographers, City Solicitor,
Assistant City Solicitor, City Auditor, City Health Officer, City
Physician, Assistant City Physician, City ",,eigher, City Jailer, I::eat and
I,:ilk Inspector, Serer Inspector, Sexton Oak Grove Cemetery, Street
Inspector, Superintendent of Riverside Hospital, and BookYeeper in Com-
missioner of Finance office.
The ordinance referred to in the above petition reads as follows:
rill ORDIIL�1101: PLaCIIIG ALL aPPOI:;TIVE CEY M.?LO'_fEES OF TAE CITY O
P..dUC;h UllDEH CIVIL RULES MID REGUL22IOES.
3E IT ORDn1IlEli 37f y BO -RD Or CUI.iiISSIUi•!P.-;S OF TnE.CITY OF
PADUCAIH, Yi`idTUC iY:
Section 1. That all appointive employees of the City of Paducah
be and are hereby placed under civil service rules and regulations.
Section 2. The tenure of office of all appointive employees of
the City shall be during good behavior, and they shall not be removed from
office except for good and sufficient cause.
Section 3. The term "good and sufficient cause", as herein set
out in Section 2, shall be for drunl.enness, drinking intoxicatinP liquors
while on duty, violation of any rule of the department, commission of any
offense against the law, immoral conduct, communicating information
relating to police ti•:orl: without permission, conduct unbecoming an officer
or employee of the city, neglect of duty, disloyalty to the State or
United States Government, .disobedience of orders or neglect of duties,
disrespect to superior officers, or inability to perform the duties per-
taining to the employment in the, department of such employee. 1110 political
affiliation of any employee shall be cause for removal.
Section 4. Ivo removal shall be made of any such employee until the
employee has been duly notified of the charges against him and of the time
and place of trial, and he shall have the riPht acid privilege to introduce
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t,itnesses in defense of the charges preferred against him, and to be rep-
resented by counsel, and shall not be removed without at least three of
the Commissioners trying the charges shall vote in favor of such removal.
Section 5. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and record.
Passed by the vote of the People at election held on Dov. o, 1917.
Recorded by H. D. Hendrick, Clork, 1ovember 20th 1917.