The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-14

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OF votes for any particular office shall b,
/ placed upon the general election ballot
ana no person or persons named as
! candidate for office shall be placed upor
such general election ballot unless theS
| shan have been duly and legally nomtnn
ted at the Nonpartisan primary election
/ as herein provided for.
| FIFTH!
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER
FIVE.
CIVIL SERVICE.
That there shall he added to the Char.
ter ot the city o. Tulsa an article to %
known and designated as ARTICLE IS
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION" creatins z
and estAbllshing such CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION; and defining W general
terms the rights, powers. and duties of
such commission.
Art IL. 1. II Is hereby declared tina,
mere , tnsIl be oiyli service N the Police
Tulsa, state Of Oklahoma.
2, There is hereby established a CIvIt.
SERVICE COMMISSION which shall con-
sist OF three (3 persons resident citl-
shall have resided IN said city for pc.
riod OF more than three t5b years, and oil
OF whom shall be over the age Of thirty.
five (3b) years.
.. suon commissioners shall be nom
mated by the mayor and confirmed by
| the city commissioners Immediately aftsr
snoh msyor and city commissioners are
elected, qualified. and installed into or
/ flee, and the members OF such civil
SERVICE COMMISSION shall serve with.
out compensation. and their term OF Of
flee shSp be two t7) years or until their
success0rJ are appointed and qualified
Any vacancy in eaid commission, caused
SSy ti,ia tdinsthi resignnt,9n; or otherwise. shall
confirmed by the city commissioners for
the unexplred term Of such vacancy
T. The CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.
with the approval OF the mayor and com.
missloners. shall make such ruies or reg
ulatiOns for the proper conduct Of It's bus
moss as Il shall find necessary and eN-
pedient but all rules made by the CIVIL
SERVICE COMMISSION may be changed
or amended by tho mayor and commits.
sioners; provided that no rules or regu.
latlons shall ever be adopted which shall
permit tho employment ,or appointment
OF any person without good character. ar
unfit or incompetent for the discharge OF
the duties thereof or prevent the removal
or discharge OF any appointee or employee
for want OF fitness or moral character or
incompetency or the failure or refusal 20
properly discharge the duties OF hls ap-
pointment or employment.
3. All employees OF the fire and police
departments, who may at the time OF the
appointment OF the first CIVIL SERVICE
OMMtssiON. as herein proslded, be In
the actual service OF the city, shall with
In ninety 9O days thereafter pass an
placed upon the probation list and allowed
10 remain IN the actual service OF the city
for a period of six 60 months unless re-
moved FOR cause, and shall then be placed
upon the classified list OF appontees or
employees for promotion on the basis OF
merit, experience, and record.
All applicants ror employment in the
fire and police departments OF said city
ahsu pass an examination before tho
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, and u
such examination be satisfactory. such
person or persons shall be placed upon a
waiting list. and whom required by the
police or fire departments may bo en-.
SOyS Sn Sa n sis s aas ao% a
main in the service OF said city IN such
police or fire departments for a period
OF six months .nless removed Tor cause
and shall then be placed upon the olassi-
field list OF appointees or employees. All
employees or appointees Of the fire ana
as herein provided, shall be eligible for
promotion on the basis OF merit, expert
ence. aud record; provided. that during
tho time any employee shall be on the
probation list he may be removed by the
CIVll. SERVICE COMMISSION without a
hearing; provided. further. that en-
sfisd list shall not be subject TO removal
except upon charges flied and heering
had before tho CIVIL SERVICE CON
MISSION. whose deuision shall be final
Any employee may be suspended by the
head Of the department under which he
is employed. and thereupon his salary
der of suspension shall forthwith file with
the CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION .
statement OF the suspension aud his res-
sons therefor, within ten uOl days after
such suspension the employee may, " he
desires file an appeal with the civil
SERVICE COMMISSION. who shall hold
an inquiry within ten uOl days there
after, and said commission shall make
decision within ten ti0l days after the
hearing. whether the employee shall be
permanently dismissed from the service
Of the city or reinstHted In his employ
ment All such hearings shall be public.
The decision OF the commission shall be
final
la order for an employee TO file an ap.
peal as hereinafter provided, u shall only
be necessary for him 10 file written
statement setting out therein the de-
when and for what suspended, denying
tue unth OF the matters charged IN the
statement OF the officer 90 suspendins
him, and that he desires an appeal from
SAID order OF suspension. which statement
OF appeal shall bs flied and sworn 10 By
lhu employee so suspended
&, The CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
with the approval OF the mayor and board
OF comm missionsrs, shall nave power at al
times 10 make proper rules OF regulations
Tor the government Of employees under
ciNtl service, and when such rules or
regulations snail have psen made n shall
cause such rules 90 be published In some
newspaper In the city OF Tulsa. provided
that 10 person under the Sc Of twenty
one (2l or over the age OF forty-nVe
tibl yesrs, nnless al the adoption Of this
amendment he shall nave served this
Guy Of Tulsa Ia such department tor a
period OF five go years snail he eligible
10 appointment or employ m.nt under civt
service and provided. further that 40
rules or regulations shall ever be adopted
whien shall permit the appointment ~
employment Of any person without
good character or unfit or incompetent
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