(a) Each new member of the Police Department and each new member of the Fire Department, prior to the beginning of his or her duties or within thirty days thereafter, shall submit to a physical examination as hereinafter provided.
(b) Each member of the Police Department and each member of the Fire Department shall submit to a physical examination one time each year as hereinafter provided.
(c) The physical examination of members of the Police Department and Fire Department shall be done and performed by a physician licensed to practice medicine in the State of Ohio, who shall be selected by the Service-Safety Director to perform the examinations herein provided.
(d) The physician selected to make the physical examinations shall prepare and submit to the Director a full and complete report of his findings and his opinion, based upon reasonable medical certainty, that the officer examined is physically able or physically unable to perform in a capable manner the duties of his employment.
(e) The Director shall make all arrangements with the selected physician for the examinations and the appointments for such examinations shall be scheduled for reasonable times and at such times to cause the least possible disruption of the schedules of the Police and Fire Departments, and at least five days notice of the time and place of the examination shall be given to the member scheduled for examination.
(f) The cost of the physical examination herein ordained, including reasonable travel expenses to and from the place of examination, shall be paid by the City from the appropriate fund.
(g) Any and all reports of the examinations submitted by the examining physician to the Director shall be securely kept by him and not be open for public examination or inspection but may be used for any purpose and in any case or proceeding in which the member examined is involved or is a party or in any inquiry, case or proceeding in which the City is involved as a party or otherwise. The member examined, upon written request therefor, shall be provided with a copy of the report of his examination, without charge.
(h) The failure or refusal of any member of the Police or Fire Departments to agree to submit to physical examination shall constitute grounds for reduction in pay or position, suspension or removal.
The failure or neglect of any member of the Police or Fire Departments to appear for and submit to the examination scheduled for him or her, without just cause for such failure or neglect, shall constitute grounds for reduction in pay or position, suspension or removal.
(Ord. 34-74. Passed 10-28-74.)