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ORDINANCE NO. 88-10-4130
AN ORDINANCE CREATING SECTION 12-41 AND AMENDING
SECTIONS 12-46 AND 12-49, OF CHAPTER 12, FIRE PREVENTION AND
PROTECTION, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY
WHEREAS, KRS 95.440 required members of the Fire -'
Department reside in McCracken County; and
WHEREAS KRS 95.440 was amended by the Kentucky
State Legislature to allow the City Commission to decide
issues to residency requirements of firefighters; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners feels that the
citizens of the City of Paducah are better served if members
of the Fire Department reside within McCracken County.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That Section 12-41, Residency Re-
quirements for Firefighters, is hereby created to read as
follows:
"All members of the Fire Department hired after
October 1, 1988, shall remain residents of McCracken County,
Kentucky, as a condition of their continued employment
within the Fire Department of the City of Paducah."
SECTION 2.
That Sec. 12-46, Qualifications of
Trainees, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"No person shall be employed as an applicant -can-
didate for employment as a fireman in the fire department
who does not possess the following qualifications and comply
with the following requirements:
11(1) They must be able to read, write and under-
stand the English language and must be a
high school graduate or hold a certificate of
high school equivalence issued on the basis
of a successful completion of the General
Educational Development Test administered and
approved under the supervision of the United
States Armed Forces Institute, or a recog-
nized institute of higher learning, or the
Commonwealth of Kentucky.
" (2 ) They must be a least nineteen
(19) years of age and must not have reached
their thirty-eighth (38th) birthday.
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11(3) They must be a person of sobriety and integ-
rity who at all times has been an orderly
law-abiding citizen."
11(4) They must be able to identify the colors of
red, green and yellow.
11(5) They must have standard visual acuity -
without correction, not less than 20/40 in
one eye, and 20/100 in the other eye; and
with correction, not less than 20/20 in one
eye, and 20/40 in the other eye.
11(6) They must have a valid driver's license."
SECTION 3. That Sec. 12-49, Appointees; proba-
tionary period; disciplinary actions, is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"(a) All appointments to the fire department shall
be for an initial probationary period of 040
six months.
During the six
months'probationary period, the candidate
shall be an appointee to the fire department,
not a member as the term is used in KRS
95.450. No appointee shall be deemed a
member of the fire department until such time
as the appointee has satisfactorily served
the OAOIWAMIi OVNOAtt/XU0X19143W six
months' probationary period. At such time as
the appointee may have successfully completed
six months of
service, he shall become a permanent employee
of the fire department and, therefore, a
member of the fire department entitled to the
procedures of KRS 95.450.
"(b) Until the six
months' probationary period has elapsed, the
appointment shall be conditional. As such,
the appointee shall not be entitled to the
discipline procedures of KRS 95.450. At any
time during the appointee's probationary
period, he may be summarily removed by the
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board of commissioners of the City of
Paducah.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be read on two
separate days and will become effective upon publication of
title and a certified summary thereof.
GERRY B. MONTGOMERY
Mayor
Introduced by the Board of Commissioners September 27, 1988
Adopted by the Board of Commissioners October 11, 1988
Recorded by Lenita Smith, City Clerk, October 11, 1988
Published by The Paducah Sun October 18, 1988.
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