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The Director of the Department of Fire and Rescue Operations shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transfer of all firefighters and other officers and employees constituting the fire force, under such rules and regulations as the Director of Public Safety may prescribe. The Director of Public Safety shall have the exclusive management and control of such other officers and employees as may be employed in the administration of the affairs of the Department. The Fire Force shall be composed of a Chief of the Department and such other officers, firefighters and employees as may be provided for by ordinance or resolution of the Council. In case of riot, conflagration, or like emergency, the Mayor may appoint additional firefighters and officers for temporary service who need not be in the classified service.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
The Chiefs of the Departments of Police and Fire shall have the exclusive right to suspend any of the officers or employees in their respective divisions, for incompetence, gross neglect of duty, gross immorality, habitual drunkenness, failure to obey orders given by the proper authority, or for any other just and reasonable cause. If any officer or employee be suspended, as herein provided, the Chief of the department concerned shall forthwith in writing certify the fact, together with the cause for the suspension, to the Director of Public Safety. Within five days from the receipt thereof, the Director of Public Safety shall proceed to inquire into the cause of such suspension and render judgment thereon, which judgment, if the charge be sustained, may be suspension, reduction in rank, or dismissal. Such judgment in the matter shall be final, except as otherwise hereinafter provided. In any such investigation, the Director of Public Safety shall have the same power to administer oaths and secure the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books and papers, as is herein conferred upon the Council.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
Any person in the Departments of Police or Fire under the exclusive control of the Chief thereof, who is suspended, reduced in rank, or dismissed from the Department by the Director of Public Safety, may appeal from the decision of such officer to the Civil Service Commission within ten days from and after the date of such suspension, reduction or dismissal. In such event said Director shall, upon notice from the Commission of such appeal, forthwith transmit to the Commission a copy of the charges and proceedings thereunder. The Commission shall hear such appeal within ten days from and after the filing of the same with the Commission, and may affirm, disaffirm or modify the judgment of the Director of Public Safety, and its judgment in the matter shall be final.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
The Mayor shall have the exclusive right to suspend the Chief of the Department of Police or Fire, for incompetence, neglect of duty, immorality, drunkenness, failure to obey orders given by the proper authority, or for any just or reasonable cause. If either of such Chiefs be so suspended, the Mayor shall forthwith certify the fact, together with the cause of suspension, to the Civil Service Commission. Within five days (5) from the receipt of such written notice, the Commission shall proceed to hear such charges and render judgment whether the suspension terminate and the officer be restored to duty, or whether he or she be dismissed from the service. The judgment of the Commission shall be a final order in the administrative process.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
The Director of Public Safety shall classify the service in the Departments of Police and Fire, in conformity with the ordinance of the Council declaring the number of persons to be employed therein, and shall make rules for the regulation and discipline of such Divisions except as hereinbefore provided.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
The Council may provide by general ordinance for the relief, out of the police or fire funds, of members of the Departments of Police and Fire temporarily or permanently disabled in the discharge of their duty. Nothing herein shall impair, restrict, or repeal any provision of general law authorizing the levying of taxes to provide for firefighters, police, and sanitary police pension funds, and to create and perpetuate boards of trustees for the administration of such funds.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
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