The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-11

candidates receiving the highest number
OF votes for any particular office shalt be
and no person or persons named as a
candidate for office shall be placed upon
such general election ballot unless they
shall have been duly and legally nomina-
ted at tho Nonpartlsah primary election
as herein provided for.
FIFTH:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER
CIVIL SERVICE.
That there shall be added 70 the Char.
ter Of the City Of Tulsa an article to 20
known and Designated as Article 10,
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION" creating
COMMISSION; and defining tn general
terms the rights, powers. and duties Of
such commission.
Art 13. l. It Is hereby declared that
there Fhall be civil service in the Police
and Fire Departments Of the City Of
Tulsa. state of Oklahoma.
2. Thcre ia heteby established a CIvIL
SERVICE COMMISSION which shall CON
sist of three (s) persons. resident citl-
gems OF tho City of Tulsa. Oklahoma, who
shall have resided In said city for ps.
rio1 OF more thsn three iO yeaSs. and All
five t3D years.
g. suon commissioners shall b. nom
mated by the mayor aud confirmed by
the city commissioners Immediately afta'
such mayor and city commissioners are
elected. qualified, and installed into OF
flee, and the members OF such CIVIL
! SERVICE COMMISSION shall serve with
OFT compensation, and their term OF Of
flee shall be two ca years or until their
successors are appointed and qualified
by death, resignation. or otherwise. shall
be filled by nomination by the mayor and
confirmed by the city commissioners for
the uneNpired term of such vacancy.
T. The CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
with the approval OF the mayor and com.
missioners shall make such rules or reg
Z iuess as It shall find necessary and sx-
| pedient, but all rules made by the CIVIL
SERVICE COMMISSION may be changed
\ or amended by the mayor ana commits
| sioners; provided that no rules or regu-
| lations shall ever ho adopted which shall
permit the employment or appointment
| Of any person WITHOUT good character. OF
/ unfit or incompetent for the discharge Of
tho duties thereof or prevent the removal
lor discharge OF any appolntee or employees
I incom potency or the failure or refusal "a
/ properly discharge the duties " his Ap-
pointmcnt ~ employment.
.. At emsioyees OF the tire ana ponce
departments, who may at the time Of the
| appointment % the first CIVIL sERNIC r
pMMlSSION. as herein provided, be In
I the actual service Of the city, shall with.
I In ninety 900 days thereafter pass 40
/ examination. ana n satisfactory b.
placed upon the probation list and allowed
FOR period OF six tO months unless re
moved tor cause, and shall then be placed
upon the classified list Of appolatees OF
/ employees for promotion on the basis oi
merit. experience. ana record.
All applicants ror employment Fin the
fire and police departments OF said city
shs.l pass ~ sxamlns,l9s before IN.
such examination be satisfactory, such
] person or persons shall DO placed upon q
waiting Hat. sane when required by tbs
police or five departments may be en-.
[ ploysd In such departments, and placed
on the probation list and allowed TO re-
main In the service OF said city IN sueh
police or fire departments for a period
OF six months Lnlsss renewed ior Gauss
and shall thon be placed upon the cIAssl'
Held list of sppoiniees or employees. All
police dspRrtmepts on the classified lie,
as hereln provided. shall be eligible fol
snSs. S''t,S and re- record: S % prosIded. that dsrins
the time any employees shall be On ths
Pr9hst,oa hst he may Dc rsmSyed by tbs
/ hearing; provided, further, that en-
ployees having been placed upon the elss,
slnsd list shall not DO suhjeet 70 removal
had before the CIVIL SERVICE COM
MISSION. whose d~iision shall be ttnai
Any employee may be suspended BY The
head Of the departlnent under which h,
shall cease. Ths officer uakiug tho or
der oi suspension shall forthwith file VITA
! the CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION q
statement OF the suspension aud his reS'
I SUNS thercfor, Within ten tlol days aftei
such suspension the employee may. " h'
[ desires tie an appeal with tho CIVIL
an inquiry within ten uol days there
after, ana ssid commission shall make a
. decision within ten tl0l DAYS after the
| hearing whether the employee shall bS
/ permanently dismissed from the service
of the city or rciuststed IN his employ
ment, All such hosTipgs shall be public
finS.
In order Tor an employee 20 file an sp'
peal as hereinafter provided, u saall only
be ncccssary for him TO Tile a written
statsment setting out thssein the de-
/ partInent In which he Was employed
Nheu and for what suspended, dsnyins
statement of the officer 80 suspendinl
him. aud that he desires an appeal ffuW
I said order OF suspension. which statement
OF appeal shah be filed and sworn tO b.
,hc employee 50 suspended
8. The CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
: with the approval % the mayor and boart
Of commissioners, shall have power at al
times TO MAKE proper rules or Tegulationi
Tor the government Of employees under
. civil service and when such rules Of
regulations shall have been mAd6 g shall
cause such rules to be published In some
that no person under the sEv 0f tweRty'
one ~ or over the age Of forty-fiv,
. tAN years. unless a. the adoption Of thi'
. amendment he shall have served th'
CITY Of rulsA IN such department for 4
period of five tsi years, saall be eligible
service; aud provided, further, that {,
rules or rexulstions shah ever be adoptel
. which shall permit thu appointment 1
. employ ment OF any person with1u
good character or unfit or ineompetsn
for the discharge OF tho duties ihereo