(A) Members of the Fire Department shall be appointed exclusively by the Board of Public Works and Safety. Applicants for membership in the city fire force shall have reached their twenty-first birthday. The Board shall also have exclusive power to promote and demote members of the fire force, and to remove, fine, suspend, or penalize them in the manner provided by law.
(B) No member of the Fire Department, under penalty of forfeiture of the salary or wages which may be due him or her, shall withdraw or resign from the Department without sufficient cause, of which the Board of Public Works and Safety shall be the judge, unless give ten days’ notice thereof to the Board, and no person who shall have been removed for cause from the fire force shall be reappointed to any position in the fire force.
(C) Whenever any member shall be permanently separated from the fire force, he or she shall immediately deliver his or her badge and all other city property in his or her possession to the proper officer.
(Prior Code, § 35.036) (Ord. 3183, passed - -1978)