Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-04

special course of inquiry and examina-
ton for candidates for each class ALI
rules and regulations adopted shall be
sSa ad 10 modlncatlon or repeal by the
4; The board shall cause the rules
and regulations SO prepared and
adopted, and all changes therein, to be
printed and distributed as they shall
deem necessary, and the expense there
OF snail be certified by the board to
the city comptroller and shall be paid
by the city. Such rules and regulations
shall specify the date when they Will
take effect, and thereafter all selec-
oIons OF persons for employment, or
appointment, or promotion, either in
the police force or the fire department
or such cities except OF the chief of
ponce and the inspector of police and
the fire department, shall be made in
accordance with such rules and regu-
lations.
8. The examinations which the rules
ana regulations shall provide for shall
be PUBLIC and free to all citizens of the
Uni to states with proper limitations
moral character. The examinations
shall be practical in their character
and shall relate to those matters which
will fairly test the relative capacity of
the candidates to discharge the duties
or the positions In which they seek
employment or to which they seek to
be appointed and may include tests Of
manual skin and physical strength.
me board shall control all eXamina-
lions and may designate suitable per
sons either In the official service of
the city or not, to conduct such eXami-
nations for any of them and may
change such examiners at any time, as
snail seem best.
3. Whenever vacancy shall exist in
the office OF chief Of police or in the
office of chief engineer of the fire de-
partment, 1t shall be the duty of said
board by majority vote to appoint
proper persons to fill such offices re-
spectively, subject to suspension and
removal as hereinafter provided.
I. Whehever vacancy shall exist In
the 0thce of inspector of police or can
tain OF police, the chief of police shall
nominate and with the approval of said
BOARD shall appoint suitable person
to such office subject to suspension
ana removal as hereinafter provided.
.. Whenever a vacancy shall exist in
the office Of the first assistant engineer
OF the f1re department. the chief en-
Slneer snail nominate and with the APP
prevail Of the board shall appoint a
suitable person to that office, subject
70 suspension and removal as herein
after provided.
g. All of the members Of the force in
either department named at the time
when the rules and regulations shall
go INTO effect, shall continue to hold
thelr respective positions and employ
mientS at the pleasure Of their pect-
i've chiefs. subject to trial hereinafter
provided for, and all persons subse-
quently appointed shall so hold. All
vacancies in either department shall
be filled and all new appointments
shall be made by the respective chiefs
with the approval of the board. Where
vacancies in old offices or newly Gre
ated offices can, with safety to the de-
padrtment be filled by the promotion of
of1cers or men already in the service
ana who have proved their fitness for
the promotion, the vacancies in newly
created offices shall be so filled by pro-
motion by the respective chiefs with
the approval Of the board.
10 Provision may be made by the
common council of such city by gem
eral ordinance that the salaries of Of
ncers and men in the police and fire de-
partment of the city shall increase
with the length of term of service The
salary and compensation of all officers
and men in said departments shall be
at all times subject to change by the
common council provided that the SAL
airy or compensation Of no officers or
men in the service of either depart
ment shall be decreased, except upon
the previous recommendation of such
change made in writing by the board
TO the ne, common council. The common
VIDE for an annual pension for life for
such members of either service as shall
be honorably discharged from same.
IL. No member Of the police force OF
fire department shall be discharged or
suspended for a term exceeding thirty
days by the chief Of either Of said de-
partments except for cause and after
trial as herein provided.
IL. Whenever complaint against any
member of the force of either DEPART
ment is made to the chief thereof, he
same to the board of fire and police
commissioners and trial shall be or
dered by said board of fire and police
commissioners as herein provided.
10. The chief discharging, or sus-
pending for a period exceeding thirty
days any member Of his force shall i'm
mediately report the same to the Sec
rotary. of the board OF fire and police
commissioners together with q COM
plant setting forth the reasons for
such discharge or suspension and the
name OF the complainant il other than
the chief. Within ten days after such
discharge or suspension the members
SO discharged or suspended may APP
peal from such order Of discharge or
suspension to the said board of fire and
police commissioners, by fling with
said board notice of appeal in the
following or similar form:
To the honorable board Of fire and po-
lice commissioners:
Please take notice that I appeal from
the order or decision Of the chief of the
......... department, discharging Cor
SuspendlnS) me from service, which
said order of discharge Tor suspensIon)
was made on the ...... day Of.
a. Said board, after receiving said
notice Of appeal shall, within five days
serve the appellant with a copy Of the
and place Of trial, which time Of trial
shall not be less than five days nor
more than fifteen days after service OF
the notice and q copy of the complaint.
Is. Notice of the time and place Of
such trial, together with a copy of the
charges preferred shall be served upon
the accused in the same manner that
summons is served in this state.
IL. The accused and the chief shall
have the right to an adjournment OF
the trial or investigation of such
charges not to exceed period of tif-
teen days. In the course of any trial
or investigation under this act each
member Of the fire and police commits
sion shall have the power to administer
otths, secure by its. subpoenas both
the attendance Of witnesses and the
production Of books and papers rele-
want to such trial and Investigation.
and to compel witnesses to answer and
TO punish for contempt in the same
manner provided by law in TRIALS be-
fore justices of the peace for failure to
answer or to produce books necessary
for the trial. The trial shall be public
and all witnesses shall be under oath.
Tho accused shall have full opportun-
tty to be heard In his own defense and
shall be entitled to secure the attend
ance of all witnesses necessary for hia
defense at the expense of the city, and
may appear in person and by attorney;
and the city in which said department
is located may be presented by the city
attorney thereof. All evidence shall bG
taken by q stenOgraphic reporter WING
cba1l he first t0 nprfOrn