129.01 DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES.

   (a)    The Mayor or the Chief of Police shall have the exclusive right to suspend any of the officers, deputies, policemen or employees in the Police Department. The Mayor or the Chief of the Fire Department shall have the exclusive right to suspend any of the officers, deputies, firemen or employees in the Fire Department.

   (b)    Incompetence, gross neglect of duty, gross immorality, habitual drunkenness, failure to obey orders given them by the proper authority or for any other reasonable and just cause shall be grounds for the suspension.

   (c)    If any such employee is suspended, the Chief of Police, Mayor 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 Safety Committee, who, within ten days from the receipt thereof, shall proceed to inquire into the cause of such suspension and render judgment thereon. Such judgment, if the charge is sustained, may be either suspension, reduction in rank or dismissal from the department. Such judgment shall be final except as otherwise provided by law.

   (d)    The Safety Committee 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 to produce books and papers as are conferred upon the Mayor.

   (e)    If the Safety Committee is abolished and a Director of Safety or Director of Safety and Service is appointed under authority of the Charter of the City, Section 8.05 and 8.06, then the Director shall have all the power and authority as the Safety Committee.

(Ord. 76-7. Passed 3-16-81.)