(a) All persons shall be eligible to receive an original appointment who are eighteen years of age and less than seventy years of age.
(b) A person participating in a City police or fire cadet program shall not be permitted to carry or use any firearms in the performance of his duties, except that he may be taught the proper use of firearms as part of his training.
(c) Nothing in this section shall prevent the City from establishing a police or fire cadet program and employing persons as police or fire cadets eighteen years of age and less than seventy years of age for the purpose of training persons to become police officers of firefighters.
(Ord. 11-85. Passed 1-21-85.)