§ 31.07  POLICE RECRUITING STANDARDS.
   (A)   All police officers recruited for service shall possess the minimum qualifications established and adopted by the Michigan Law Enforcement Officers Training Council in accordance with Public Act 203 of 1965, being M.C.L.A. §§ 28.601 - 28.616.
   (B)   The recruit shall have reached the age of 21 years and shall be a citizen of the United States of America.
   (C)   He shall be a graduate of an accredited high school or shall have attained a passing score on the General Education Development test indicating high school graduation level.
   (D)   He shall not have been convicted of a felony offense and shall be possessed of good moral character.
   (E)   He shall exhibit acceptable physical, emotional and mental fitness. He shall possess normal hearing and normal color vision with normal visual functions and visual acuity correctable to 20/20 in each eye. He shall be free from any impediments of the senses. He shall be physically sound; well developed physically with height and weight in relation to each other and to his age as indicated by accepted medical standards. He shall be in possession of his extremities; and must be free from any physical defects, chronic diseases, organic diseases, organic or functional conditions, or mental instabilities which may tend to impair efficient performance of duties or which might endanger the lives of others or himself.
(`73 Code, 12.171, § 1.71)