Section 12.01 Creation, Duties and Term.

   Council shall by ordinance provide for and establish a Civil Service Commission and a Civil Service System. The Commission shall consist of five (5) electors of the Municipality, not holding other municipal office or employment to be appointed by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by a majority of the members elected to Council, for terms of six years each. Council shall stagger the initial terms of office of the Civil Service Commission members so that thereafter no more than one member’s term shall expire in any year. A vacancy occurring during the term of any member of the Commission shall be filled for the unexpired term in the manner authorized for an original appointment. The Commission shall designate one of its members a chairman and may appoint a secretary, who need not be a member of the Commission and may hold other municipal office or employment. Council shall determine which employees of the Municipality shall be within the classified service and which shall be within the unclassified service, provided that in addition to those qualified in Section 12.02 or 12.03 hereof, all full-time dispatchers, officers and patrolmen of the Police Department, and all full-time officers and fire fighters of the Fire Department, shall be in the classified service, and provided further that persons, other than those serving a probationary period of employment, who have been continuously employed on a full-time basis in the service of the Municipality in the same or similar position for at least ninety (90) days prior to the date such position is placed in the classified service, shall be retained in the same or similar position without examination until discharged, reduced, disciplined, promoted or transferred in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commission.

(Amended 11-2-99; 11-3-09; 11-7-23)