HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 12, Page 969, No Ordinance NumberAMENDED 96./
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE
PLACING OFFICES AND POSITIONS OF TRUST OR MPLOYPENT Ii: THE SERVICE OF THE CITY
OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, UNDER CIVIL SERVICE RULES AND REGULA^lIONS PURSUANT TO TIIE
PROVISIONS OF KRS 90.300 TO 90.990; PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTI•`.ENT OF A BOARD
OF CIVIL SERVICE COPMISSIONERS, FIXING AND PRESCRIBING THE QUALIFICATIOIIS, T3 i:S
OF OFFICE, POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID CO1-1IISSIONERS; PRESCRIBI17G THE RULES BY
WHICH THE BOARD OF CIVIL SERVICE COiT,=SSIONERS SHALL BE GOVERNED IN THE GIVING
OF EXAPIINATIONS TO APPLICANTS FOR EP1PLO'f1,1ENT; FIXING THE NUPJBER, CLASSIFICATION
AND SALARIES OF ALL EITLOYEES IPI EACH DEPARTPMTT WHO SHALL BE AFFECTED BY THE
CIVIL SERVICE RULES AND REGULATIONS PROVIDED HEREIN; AND PRESCRIBING THE RULES
AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE CONDUCT OF ALL EMPLOYEES AFFECTED THEREBY AND THE
CAUSES FOR 117HICH ANY E1,1PLOYEE MAY BE REPRIMANDED, SUSPENDED, DISI•IISSED OR
RE14OVED FROPI EPPLOYPMNT BY THE CITY; PROVIDING FOR AND ESTABLISHING A RETIREMENT
SYSTEM AND THE CREATION AND MLAINTENANCE OF A PENSION FUND FOR APPOINTIVE
EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND AUTHORIZII:G THE LEVY OF A TAX AND
THE ASSESSP1ENT OF Z-1,FOR THE CREATION AND P3AINTENANCE OF SAID FUND;
PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ADMINISTER SAID FUND;
FIXING AND PRESCRIBING THE QUALIFICATIONS, TERNS OF OFFICE, POI-IERS AND DUTIES
OF SAID BOARD OF TRUSTEES; PRESCRIGING THE RULES AND REGULATIONS BY WHICH SAID
BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ALL APPOINTIVE EMPLOYEES SHALL BE GOVERNED 1ITH REFERENCE
TO THE GRANTING AND ALLO11ANCE OF PENSIONS AND OTHER BENEFITS AND PROVIDING A
SEPARABILITY CLAUSE', WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF CO1.11ISSIONERS ON,DECEMBER
21 1947, AND SECTION 1 THEREOF AS A1.1ENDED ON JANUARY 16, 1951
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF C01,1IISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That Section 1 of an ordinance containing the title quoted
above, which was adopted on December 2, 1947, and as amended on January 16, 1951,
be and the same is hereby repealed, amended and reordained so that said section
as amended and reordained shall read as follows:
"Section 1. Definitions. The following words and phrases as used in this
ordinance, unless a different meaning is plainly shorn by the context, shall
have the following meaning:
(a) "Employee" means any person employed in the conduct of municipal
affairs, including the head of a department and each administrative employee
appointed by the City Manager, wi di the exception of the Corporation Counse, any
Assistant Corporation Counsel, the Director of Public Works, the City Alcoholic
BeveraSe Administrator, the Delinquent Tax Attorney, the City Physician (white),
and the City Physician (colored), the Dump Watchman, the Dog Catcher, the Janitor
and the Weighmaster, and the term shall also not include the Mayor, a member of
the Board of Commissioners, the City I•Ianager, a member of the Police or Fire
Department, a member of the Board of Trustees of the policemen and Firerlents
Pension Fund, with the exception of the City Treasurer who serves as ex -Officio
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member, the City Planning and Zoning Board, the Board of Adjustment, City Planning
and Zoning, the City of Paducah Municipal Housing Commission, the City of Paducah
Municipal Hospital Commission, the Commissioners of the Paducah Nater Works, the
Board of Trustees of the Public Library, or any employee of said boards or
commissions, or the :trustees, members or corresponding officer of any similar bogrds
or commissions of a city of the second class now or hereafter created, or any
employee of such boards or commissions, or to any person employed on temporary
and special projects, or to any person whose regular employment with the city is
seasonal and is less than nine months in any one year.
(b) "Appointing authority" means the officer, commission, board or body
having the power of appointment or removal in any office, department, commission,
board or institution.
(c) "Civil Service" means the offices and positions of trust not
specifically excluded by IC13 90.310 or 90.410 or by ordinance of the city.
(d) "Commission" means the board of Civil Service Commissioners as
established under KRS 90.310.
(e) "The Board of Trustees" shall mean the Board of Trustees of the
Appointive Employees' Pension Fund created under the provisions of this ordinance.
(f) "Pension fund' means the moneys derived from the employees and the lev
of a special tax, either or both, or by any other sum derived from any other source
to be used for the retirement of employees after the prescribed years of service
and for the benefit of disabled employees, and widows and dependent children in
the case of death of an employee within the scope of his employment according to th
terms of I2S 90.310 to 90.410 and the ordinances of the city.
(-v) "Jidow" as used in this ordinance shall mean any woman legally married
to an employee where there has been no decree of divorce dissolving the marriage
and where the wife has not, at the time of the death of the employee, voluntarily
abandoned hin.wt
SECTIOI? 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTIObi 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and aft
its adoption.
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Troy Clar ., Cor:.missioner
Passed by the Board of Commissioners November 18, 1952
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, iovember 18, 1952