(a) The Chief of Police and the Chief of the Fire Department shall have exclusive right to suspend any of the deputies, officers or employees in their respective departments and under their management and control, for incompetence, gross neglect of duty, gross immorality, habitual drunkenness, failure to obey orders given by proper authority, or for other reasonable and just cause.
(b) If any employee is suspended, the Chief of Police or the Chief of the Fire Department, as the case may be, shall forthwith certify such fact in writing, together with the cause for such suspension to the Service-Safety Director, who within five days from the receipt thereof, shall proceed to inquire into the cause of such suspension and render judgment thereon. The judgment, if the charge is sustained, may be either suspension, reduction in rank or dismissal from the Department, and such judgment in the matter shall be final except as otherwise provided by law. The Director, in any investigation of charges against a member of the Police or Fire Department shall have the same powers to administer oaths and to secure the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers as are conferred upon the Mayor.
(ORC 737.12; Ord. 4-62. Passed 2-12-69.)