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No contract involving the payment of money out of the appropriations of more than one year, except public utility contracts, shall be made for a period of more than ten years or otherwise than by ordinance; and no ordinance providing for such a contract shall be valid without public notice at least two weeks before passage by the commission and the approval of not less than seventy-five per cent of the members of commission, unless submitted to the electors of the city at a regular or special election and approved by a majority of those voting thereon.
(Adopted by electorate, November 7, 1978 – Amending Ordinance No. 2-88)
CIVIL SERVICE
The department of civil service shall be under the management and control of the Civil Service Commission who shall have the powers applying to Civil Service under the general law, except that promotions in the police and fire departments shall be by competitive examinations, among the persons in the next lowest position. Said examinations shall be drafted in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the Piqua Civil Service Commission and shall be for the purpose of assessing the candidate’s capacity to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position sought. Said examinations may include scores on a written examination, efficiency ratings, psychological testing, seniority ratings and oral examinations. Each of the aforementioned criteria shall be given such weight as the Civil Service Commission shall establish by its rules, except that an applicant for entry level examination only who has served as a cadet or on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States for a continuous period of twelve (12) months or more, and/or an accumulative period of eighteen (18) months or more, and/or received a campaign medal ribbon for service in a specified combat Theater of Operation and discharged under honorable conditions and/or currently serving in the Armed Forces shall receive ten percent (10%) in addition to the applicant's passing written test score. In the event there are less than two candidates in the next lowest position, then persons in the position immediately below that shall become eligible to take the examination. The city manager shall be the appointing authority on behalf of the Civil Service Commission.
(Adopted by electorate, May 3, 1988 – Amending Ordinance No. 2-88; Adopted by electorate, November 4, 2008 – Amending Ordinance No. 16(A)-08)
PUBLIC HEALTH
The city shall, through such officer or officers as may be provided for by ordinance, enforce all laws and ordinances relating to health, and such officer or officers shall perform all the duties and may exercise all the powers relative to the public health provided by general law to be performed and exercised in municipalities by health officers. All regulations for the protection or promotion of the public health, additional to those established by general law and for the violation of which penalties are imposed, shall be made by ordinance and enforced as provided in this section.
POLICE AND FIRE SERVICE
The city shall maintain a police force consisting of an officer directly in charge thereof and of such number of other officers, patrolmen and employees as may be fixed in accordance with the provisions of Section 38 of this Charter. In case of riot or like emergency, the city manager may appoint additional patrolmen and officers for temporary service who need not be in the classified service of the city. The officer directly in charge of the police force shall have control of the stationing, and other disposition, of all members of the force under such rules and regulations as he may establish with the approval of the city manager.
(Adopted by electorate, November 2, 2010 – Amending Ordinance No. 17-10)
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