The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-12

OF votes Tor any particular office ahnll bo
placed upon tho general election ballot,
candidate Tor office shall be placed upon
such general election ballot unless they
shnll have been duly and legally noninn.
ted at the Nonpartisan primary election
ms herein provided for.
! FIFTH.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER
FIVE,
CIVIL SERVICE
That there shall be added to the Char
I ter Of the city ~ Tulsa an articia to no
CIVIL SERVICE CONN ecoMMrssioN." ',q,s spea,,ns
and establishing such CIVIL SERVICE
/ COMMISSION; and defining in general
terms tho rights powers. and duties Of
Art. -. I. It is hereby declared that
there shall be civil service IN the Police
| Tulsa. state OF Oklahoma,
2. There IL hereby established n CIVIL
! SERVICE COMMISSION which shall con-
sist OF three tD persons, resident Cit.
shalt have resided In said city for n pc.
rlod Of more than three t3) years and ali
/ of whom shall oo over the age of thirty.
| five t35) years.
.. such commissioners shalt br nom
! mated BY the mayor and confirmed by
the city commissioners Immediately aft.r
such mayor md city commissioners are
| elected, qualified, md installed into OF
! flee, and tho members OF such CfVH,
| SERVICE COMMISSION shall serve with.
l
flee shall be two t2) years or until their
SUCCESSORS are appointed aud qualified
Any vacancy In said commission, caused
/ by death. resignation, or otherwise, shall
be filled by nomination by the mayor and
l confirmed by the city commissioners Tor
! the uneXpirod term of such vacancy.
4. The CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
with the approval of the mayor and COM
misGioners, shall make such rules or reg
ulations for the proper conduct OF Its bus
mess as II shall find necessary ana eN-
] l..
SERVICE COMMISSION may be changed
/ or amended by the mayor ana commits
sioners. provided that no rules or regu-
I lations shall ever be adopted which shall
permit the employment or appointment
/ Of any person without good character, or
| unfit or Incompetent for the discharge Of
/ the dutica thereof or prevent the removal
| or discharge OF any appointes or employee
! for want OF fitness or moral character or
| lncompetenCy or the failure or refusal to
properly discharge the duties Of his APP
| pointment or employment.
6, All employees OF the fire and police
/ appointment OF the first CIVIL SERVICE
| OMMlSSlON, as herein provided. be In
] the actual service OF the city, shall with
/ examination. and n satisfactory be
placed upon the probation list and allowed
/ tn remain IN the actual service OF the city
/ for n period Of six 90 months unless re-
moved for cause, and shall then be placed
upon the classified list OF appointees OF
| employees for promotion on the basis OF
merit, experience. and record.
/ All applicants ror employment In the
| fire and police departments OF said city
| civil SERVICE COMMISSION, and 4
such examination be satisfactory, such
person OF. persons shall be placed upon n
waiting list, and when required by the
! police or fire departments may be EN-
/ ployed In such departments, ana placed
| on the probation LIST and allowed to re-
/ main in the service OF said city IN such
| police or fire departments for n period
OF siS months unless removed ,or cause
and shall then be placed upon the class'-
field list Of appointees or employees. All
| employees or appointees Of the fire ana
| police departments on the classified list,
as herein provided, shall be eligible for
/ promotion on the basis OF merit, expert
| ence, and record provided, that during
the time any employee shall be- on the
/ probation list he may be removed by the
| clVli, SERVICE COMMISSION without a
/ hearing; provided, further, that em-
/ ployees having been placed upon tho clas-
sified list shall not be subject TO removal
| except upon charges filed and hearing
] had before the ClVu. SERVICE CON
MISSION whose deItsion shall be finah
Any employee may be suspended by the
/ head OF the department under which he
/ Is employed. aud thefeupon his salary
shah cease, Tho officer making the or
der OF suspension shall forthwith file with
the CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION a
statement OF She suspension and his res-
sons therefor Within ten ti0I days after
such suspension the employee may, II he
desires file an appeal with the CIVIL
SERVICE COMMISSION, who shah hold
N
after, and said commission shall make a
decision within ten bOl days after the
hearing whether the employee shall be
permanently dismissed from the service
OF the city or reinststed In his employ
ment, All such hearings shalt be public.
| The decision OF the commission shall Be
] final
In order for an employee to file an ap-
peal as hereinafter provided, II shall only
be necessary for him to file written
statement setting out therein the de-
pHTtmeut IN which he was employed,
when and for what suspended, denying
the truth Of the matters charged IN the
statement OF the officer so suSpohding
him, and that ne desires an appeal from
/ said order OF suspension, which statement
OF appeal shall be filed and sworn TO BY
the employee So suspended.
D, The CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
with the approval " the mayor and board
OF commissioners shall have power at all
Tor the government Of employees under
civil service, ana when such rules or
regulations shall have Deeh pade u SHAH
cause sugh rules TO be published Ia some
newspaph IN the City OF Tulsa. provided.
that no person under the Sc Of twenty
one te) or over the age OF forty-tiye
O4b) yearS. unless at the adoption Of this
amendment he shall have served the
City OF Tulsa IN such department for a
20 appointment or employment under civil
service; and provided further. that no
rules or regulations shall ever be adopted
when shall permit the appointment ~
employment OF any person without
good character or unfit or incompetent
! Tor the discharge OF the duties thereof