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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 7, Page 51, Ordinance Number 17Ordinance No. 17 AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING POSITIONS OF EMPLOY1.1ENT IN THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH IIID PRESCRIBING THEIR DUTIES AND THE METHOD OF PROP,ICTION AND REDUCTION. BE IT ORDhINED BY THE BOARD OF COI.III.ISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: - SECTION 1. The positions of employment in the Police Department of the City of Paducah, the number of employees thereof and their respective salaries, shall be and remain as heretofore fixed by Ordinance of the City of Paducah, except as changed and regulated by this Ordinance, until changed by Ordinance of the City of Paducah. SECTION 2. In order to secure efficiency in the performance of duties by patrolmen, and to provide incentive and reward for faithful and efficient service by them, they are classified and graded as follows: 1. Patrolmen of Grade A, consisting of men who are at the time of the passage of this Ordinance regular patrolmen of the City of Paducah. 2. Patrolmen of Grade B, consisting of men who have served three years and less than five years with a good record. 3. Patrolmen of Grade C, consisting of men who have served one year and less than three years, of good record. Substitutes shall draw the same salary while serving as the patrolman being substituted for. 4. Patrolmen of Grade D, consisting of patrolmen not included in Grades A, B and C. SECTION 3. Said patrolmen shall receive salaries as follows, to -wit: Grade a ...................675.00 per month Grade B ................... 70.00 per month Grade C ................... 65.00 per month Grade D ............... 60.00 per month SECTION 4. In order to establish more fully the Merit System there shall be kept by the Commissioner of Public Safety, or the Assistant Chief of Police, a record upon which patrolmen shall be credited with merits and charged with demerits, in the manner hereinafter prescribed. And upon a demerit or merit being entered against any patrolman or officer, then such officer or patrolman shall be notified thereof. SECTION 5. When any patrolman is hereafter placed upon the Police force of the City who has had past experience as patrolman in the City of Paducah, he shall - for the purpose of grading said patrolman - he credited with one half of the time he served as patrolman of the City of Paducah. But all patrolmen hereafter placed upon the Police force of the City of Paducah who have not had past experience as patrolmen shall be classed in Grade C. SECTION 6. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall have the right to suspend, without pay, any patrolman against whom charges have been brought Vo-� 1 Ordinance No. __LZcontinued. which would subject him to discharge, until such charges have been heard and finally determined by the Board of Commissioners, and upon the hear- ing of said charges by the Board of Commissioners said Board shall have . the right to discharge said patrolman in accordance with the terms of this Ordinance, or to p unish him by a suspension_, without pay, or with a diminution of pay, for such time as it may determine - and such action on the part of said Board of Commissioners shall be final. SECTION 7. When any patrolman is discharged, either by reason of re- ceiving sufficient demerits to automatically discharge him or upon charges heard before the Board of Commissioners, then his application for reinstatement on the police force shall not be considered and he shall not be placed upon the police force, in any capacity, until after one year has elapsed from the date of his discharge. SECTION 8. The Board of Commissioners may, by a majority vote, &.11017 any number of merits to a patrolman in cases of exceptional and meritorious conduct in the performance of his duty. SECTION 9. Demerits shall be determined by the Commissioner of Public Safety upon report of the Assistant Chief of Police, or upon other information, and shall be charged against each patrolman as follows, for any of the following causes existing or occurring after the passage`of this Ordinance: For drinking intoxicating liquor while in uniform ............................ 3 Demerits For being intoxicated while on duty ... 5 Demerits For being intoxicated while off duty .. 3 Demerits Insubordination or disrespect towards superior officer ...................... 2 Demerits Oppression or tyranny ................. 1 Demerit Neglect of duty - Within the discretion of the Commissioner of Public Safety - 1 to 3 Demerits Violation of an;T rule of the Department 2 Demerits Disobedience of orders ................ 3 Demerits Offense against the law, except upon conviction of a felony ................ 3 Demerits Conviction of any felony .............. 5 Demerits Absence from duty without leave ....... 2 Demerits Immoral conduct ....................... 3 Demerits Conduct unbecoming an officer ......... 3 Demerits Conduct injurious to public peace or welfare ............................... 3 Demerits Unnecessary absence from his route during patrol duty .................... 3 Demerits Incapacity - mental, physical or educational, such as within the discre- tion of the Commissioner of Public Safety makes him unfit for service .... 5 Demerits Breach of discipline .................. 2 Demerits Ol'Qr117ance No. __17—continued. Neglecting or refusing to pay a debt for uniform clothing or for rent, or the necessaries of life, contracted during service ................................ 2 Demerits Failure to promptly answer signal light .................................. 1 Demerit Contracting a debt under false or fraudulent pretenses ................... 3 Demerits Neglecting or refusing to pay a just debt contracted during service ......... 2 Demerits Entering house of prostitution or assignation, saloons or sporting houses of any description, unless in the discharge of his duty 3 Demerits Communicating information relating to police work_ without permission ......... 4 Demerits Conversing unnecessarily during hours of duty with others without cause therefor 1 Demerit Not properly patroling route during his tDur of patrol duty ................ 3 Demerits Patrolmen in Grade a shall be considered as patrolmen who have served for a period of five years or more. Patrolmen in Grade B shall be considered as patrolmen who have served for a period of three years and less than five years. Patrolmen in Grade C shall be considered as patrolmen who have served for a period of one year and less than three years. Patrolmen in Gracie D shall be considered as patrolmen who have served for a period of less than one year. Each demerit shall be equivalent to taking off one year of service in determining the grade of patrolmen, and each merit shall be equivalent to one demerit. V,henever a patrolman has served for a period of six months without any demerit being marked against him, then such continuous service shall be considered as one merit mark. V,henever a patrolman is credited with merits and charged with demerits, as pro- vided in this ordinance, his grade as patrolman shall be thereupon automatically advanced or reduced, in accordance with the scale provided in this Ordinance, and whenever a patrolman receives sufficient demerits to drop him below the grade of D he shall be dismissed from service - and if any patrolman of any grade shall have five demerits against him he shall thereupon be dismissed from service. SECTION 10. Promotions to and reductions from positions of higher grade than a patrolman shall be made upon the consideration of merit and efficiency by the Board of COmmissioners, upon recomr.endation of the Commissioner of Public Safety. Promotions of patrolmen to higher grades will be made from patrolmen of Grade a, except that the assistant Chief of Police shall be selecteck by the Board of Commissioners irrespective of merits or demerits. No member of the Police Department, except Assistant Chief, shall be discharged except as herein provided, and except upon specific charges brought for offenses not enumerated herein, to be No. Ordinance No. 17 a_ontinued. heard before and decided upon by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Paducah, at which hearing and trial the said patrolman shall have the right to be represented in person and by counsel, after due notice thereof of not less than five days, and after a copy of the charges preferred against him have been served upon him, but the action of the Board of Commissioners in determining whether he shall be retained or discharged shall be final. F I R E D E P A R T It E PI T. SECTION 11. The positions of employment in the Fire Department and the number of employees thereof shall be as now fixed by Ordinance of the City of Paducah, except as changed and regulated by this Ordinance, until changed by Ordinance of the City of Paducah. SECTION 12. In order to secure efficiency in the performance of duty by firemen, and to provide incentive and reward for faithful and efficient service by them, they are classified and graded as follows: 1. Firemen of Grade A. 2. Firemen of Grade B. 3. Firemen of Grade C. 4. Firemen of Grade D. SECTION 13. rill officers of the Fire Department at the time of the passage of this Ordinance, e_{cert the Chief of the Fire Department, shall be classified as Grade. All firemen, not officers, now in the employ of the Fire Department shall be classified as Grade B. All firemen who have served for a period of three years but who have not been promoted to Grade B shall be classified as Grade C. All firemen who have served for one year and less than three years shall be classified as Grade D. All substitutes shall draw the same salary while serving as the fireman being substituted for. SECTION 14. The officers and firemen_ of the respective Grades shall receive salaries as follows: Grade X ...........H80.00 per month Grade B ........... 75.00 per month Grade C ........... 70.00 per month Grade D ............ 65.00 per month SECTION 15. The Board of Commissioners may, by a majority vote, allow any number of merits to any fireman in cases of exceptional or meri- torious conduct in the performance of his duties, and in order to establish more fully the Merit System there shall be kept by the No.-, Ordinance No. 17 Continued. Commissioner of Public Safety, or the Chief of 'the Fire Department, a record upon which firemen and officers shall be credited with merits and- charged nd charged with demerits, in the manner hereinafter prescribed - and upon a merit or demerit being entered against any officer or fireman, then such officer or fireman shall be notified thereof. SECTION 16. All firemen hereafter added to the Fire Department force, and who have had past experience as firemen in the City of Paducah, shall - for the purpose of grading said firemen - be credited with one half of the time of service as such firemen in the City of Paducah, but all new firemen who have not had past experience and are added to the force shall be classified as Grade D. SECTION 17. Upon any charges being brought against any officer or fireman of the City of Paducah, which would subject said officer or fireman to discharge, then the Commissioner of Public Safety shall have the power to suspend said fireman or officer, without pay, pending and until the final determination of said charges by the Board of Commission- ers, and said Board of Commissioners, upon the hearing, shall have the right to discharge such fireman or officer, as hereinafter set out, or to suspend such officer or fireman without pay, or with a diminution of his pay for such period of time as may be proper, in their discretion, and the action of said Board of Commissioners shall be final. SECTION 18. When any officer or fireman has been discharged by receiving demerits sufficient to automatically discharge him, or upon charges heard before the Board of Commissioners, no application for reinstate- ment shall be received, nor shall he be reinstated by the Board of Commissioners, or in any other way, until after one year has elapsed from the date of his discharge. SECTION 19. All demerits to be determined by the Commissioner of Public Safety upon report by the Chief of the Fire Department,or upon other information, and shall be charged against each fireman or officer as follows, for any of the following causes existing after the passage of this Ordinance, and in order to more fully establish the Merit System there shall be kept by the Chief of the Fire Department a record upon which firemen shall be charged with demerits and credited with merits, to be determined by the Commissioner of Public Safety, to -wit: For drinking intoxicating liquor while in uniform ................... 3 Demerits For being intoxicated while on duty ....................... 5 Demerits For being intoxicated while off duty .............................. 3 Demerits Insubordination or disrespect towards superior officer ........... 3 Demerits Oppression or tyranny 1 Demerit Neglect of duty - to be determined by the Commissioner of Public Safety 1 to 3 Demerits �;m NOA Ordinance No. 17 Gntinued, Violation of any rule of the Department ...................... 2 Demerits Disobedience of orders .......... 3 Demerits Any offcrnse against the law other than a conviction of a felony ... 3 Demerits Conviction for any felony ....... 5 Demerits Absence from duty without leave 2 Demerits Immoral conduct ................. 3 Demerits Conduct unbecoming an officer ... 3 Demerits Conduct injurious to public peace or welfare 3 Demerits Unnecessary absence from his sta- tion during hours of duty ....... 3 Demerits Incapacity - mental,physical or educational, such as within the discretion of the Commissioner of Public Safety makes him unfit for service ......................... 5 Demerits Breach of discipline ............. 2 Demerits neglecting or refusing to pay a debt for uniform clothing or for rent, or the necessaries of life contracted while in service ..... 2 Demerits Contracting a debt under false or fraudulent pretenses while in service ......................... 3 Demerits neglecting or refusing to pay a just debt contracted while in service ......................... 2 Demerits Entering houses of prostitution and assignation, saloons or sporting houses of any description, unless in the discharge of his duty ............................ 3 Demerits Communicating information relative to the origin or cause of any fire, or any other information of a secret nature relative to the Fire Department, without permission .. 4 Demerits SECTION 20. Every mei.iber of the Department in Grade A or B shall be considered as having been in the employ of the City for a period of five years. SECTION 21. Each merit shall be equivalent to one demerit, and each demerit shall be equivalent to taking off one year of service in determining the grade of any fireman. C;henever a fireman is credited with merits or charged with demerits, as provided in this Ordinance, his grade as fireman shall thefeupon be automatically advanced or reduced, in accordance with the scale provided in this Ordinance, and whenever a fireman receives sufficient demerits to drop him below the grade of D he shall be dismissed from the service, and if any fireman or officer of any grade shall have five demerits against him he shall - be dismissed from the service automatically. SECTION 22. Continuous and uninterrupted service without a demerit for a period of six months shall be considered as one merit. No. Ordinance No. 17 Continued. SECTION 23. Promotions to and reductions from positions in the Fire Department - except for Chief - will be made upon consideration of merit and efficiency by the Board of Commissioners upon their record and report of the Commissioner of Public Safety. SECTION 24. No employee of the Fire Department shall be dismissed from service, except the Chief of the Fire Department, except -in accordance with the terms of this Ordinance or upon specific charges brouLaht against hire, and upon such charges being brought the,. shall be reduced to writing, and copy thereof served upon said fireman, and same shall be tried after not less than five days notice by the Board of Commissioners, and said .fireman shall have the right to be represented in person and by counsel at said trial - but the action of the Board of Commissioners upon said charges shall be final. SECTION 25. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith, to the extent of such conflict, are hereby repealed. SECTION 26, This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. PASSED BY THE BOARD OF COb:MISSIONE_RS FEBRUARY 23rd, 1915. RECORDED BY MAURICE I':IcINTYRE, CITY CLERK, FEBRUARY 25th, 1915.