At such time as the Municipality shall become a city, the Council shall by ordinance establish a Civil Service Commission and Civil Service System. The ordinance shall provide which employees of the Municipality shall be within the classified service and which shall be within the unclassified service, provided that regular full time members of the Police and Fire Divisions shall be in the classified service, and provided further that any person other than one serving a probationary period of employment who shall have served the Municipality in the same or a similar position in the classified service for at least ninety days preceding the effective date of the ordinance, shall retain his position without examination until discharged, reduced, promoted, or transferred in accordance with the ordinance or rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission adopted thereunder.
The provisions of the laws of Ohio regarding selection, promotion, demotion, discipline, and removal shall be applicable except as otherwise provided by ordinance of Council adopted pursuant of this Charter.