(a) Effective January 1, 1974, no full-time members of the City Fire Department shall be employed or continue to serve as a member of the Department after attaining the age of sixty-five, except those full-time members of the Department who shall be permitted to continue their employment past age sixty-five until completion of twenty-five years of continuous service contingent upon the individual member passing an annual physical examination given by a physician selected by the City.
(b) Any officer or member of the Fire Department compelled to retire under this section having accumulated overtime upon attaining his sixty-fifth birthday, shall be paid for such overtime at the regular rate of compensation that he has received at his attained rank on the date of retirement. (Ord. 73-44. Passed 6-18-73.)