(a) Except for emergency special assignments, not more than eight hours shall constitute a day of work and not more than forty hours shall constitute a week of work on which regular compensation is based. Full-time members of the Police Department performing work in excess of forty hours per week shall be compensated at the rate of time and one-half. For work performed on any paid holiday, full-time police officers and firemen shall receive compensation at a rate of one and one-half times their regularly established rate of compensation.
(Ord. 78-2-5. Passed 2-7-78.)
(b) Except as provided in subsection (d) hereof, the following employees are hereby exempted from overtime requirements:
(1) The Chief of Police;
(2) The Deputy Chief of Police;
(3) The Chief of the Fire Department;
(4) The Inspector of Buildings; and
(5) The Street Commissioner.
(c) The employees exempted in subsection (b) hereof shall be paid for holidays worked at a rate of one and one-half times their hourly rate.
(Ord. 86-4-3. Passed 4-1-86.)
(d) Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department is required to report to the station before his or her usual starting time and is out on a fire or ambulance run after his or her usual quitting time, he or she shall receive overtime pay. Such overtime pay shall not be allowable if he or she is called to the station after he or she has returned to his or her home. In all other respects subsections (b) and (c) hereof, relating to the Chief of the Fire Department being exempt from overtime pay, shall remain in full force and effect.
(Ord. 88-3-20. Passed 3-1-88.)
(e) Service and Recreation Department employees who work in excess of thirty-two hours during a week commencing on Sunday and ending on Saturday at 12:00 midnight, in which a nonworking eight-hour holiday has been credited, shall receive overtime pay for such excess hours, the holiday nonworking eight hours having been credited towards the forty-hour requirement for overtime.
(Ord. 94-11-4. Passed 11-16-94; Ord. 2013-2-4. Passed 2-5-13.)