The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-15
INumo,r J Street


OF votes for any particular office shall be
/ placed upon the general election ballot
and no person or persons named as a
| such general election ballot unless they
! shall have been duly and legally nominH.
ted NJ the Nonpartisan primary election
! as herein provided Tor.
FIFTH;
| PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER
FIVE.
| CIVIL. SERVICE.
| Tint there shall be added 10 the Char
! ter af the city of Tulsa an article 20 be
known and designated as "Articlc Is
| CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION" cteatins 3
| and estlLighing such CIVIL SERVICE
! COMMISSION. and defining In general
terms the rights, powers. and duties of
such commission.
Art IS. !. It Is hereby declared that
| there shall he civil service In the Police
| and Fire Departments OF tho City OF
Tulsa, state Of Oklahoma.
2. There Is hereby established a CIVIL
! % RNlCE COMMISSION which shall con-
5 sa". OF OF thG n5VS e Of Fua S %so
! shall have resided In said city for a pc.
riod Of more than three - years and oll
/ Of whom shall DO over tho age OF thirty
/ five (3j) years.
| 3. sucn commissioners shan be nom
| mated by the mayor ana confirmed by
the, city commissioners Immediately aftst
| such mayor and city commissioners are
telected. qualified, and Installed into OF
flee, and the members OF such CIVIL
l
out compensation. and their term OF of
flea shail be two cd years or until their
successors are appointed ana pun'ific :
! Any vacancy in said commission. caused
BY death resignation. or otherwise shail
be filled by nomination by the mayor and
confirmed by the city, commissioners for
the unexpired term of buch vacancy.
4. The CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
with the approval OF the mayor ana com
missloners. shall make such rules or reg
ulations for the proper conduct OF Its bus
/ N
| pedtent but all rules made by the CIVIL
| l'rRV1CE COMMISSION may be changed
sloners. provided that no rules OF regu
| latiOns shall ever be adopted which shal
permit the employment or appointment
| unfit or incompetent for the discharge OF
the duties thereof OF prevent the removal
or discharge OF any appointee or employed
incompetency or tho failure or refusal e
properly discharge the duties OF his ap
pointment or employment.
6. All employees OF the fire and polic'
departments, who may at the time OF tn,
appointment OF the first CIVIL SERVICE
| Omission, as herein provided, be IL
in ninety (9O> days thereafter pass al
examination, ana II satisfactory b'
placed upon the probation list and allowed
for a period OF six t6) months unless re
moved fot cause, and shall then be PLACED
upon the classified list OF appointeos oil
u.rrit, experience. and record,
All applicants tor employment IN tbs
fire and police departments OF said city
shall pass an examination before th'
civil SERVICE COMMISSION. and 1
such examination be satisfactory suci
person or persons shall DO placed upon
waiting list. and when required by thu
police or tire departments may DO en-
ployed In such departments and piacef
the ptSsaoR tSs seqy,as @ Of n sa,S I city in sucl
police or fire departments for periot
OF six months unless removed Tor caus'
and shall then be placed upon the clissl
employees OF appointees OF the lire ant
police departments on the classified list
as herein provided, shall be eligible 10
promotion on the basis OF merit. expert
encs. aud record, provided that durinI
probation list he may be removed by tn,
CIVII SERVICE COMMISSION without
hearins, provided, further. that EN-
ployees having been placed upon the elias
slfiod list shall not be subject TO remoya
except upon charges hled ana heeTinl
had before tho ClNu. SERVICE CON
MISSION whose o'islon shall be final
Any employee may be suspended by IN
mead OF the department under which ~
IL employed and thereupon his salAr!
shah cease The officer making the or
der OF suspension snail forthwith file viii
the civil SERVICE COMMISSION
statement OF the suspension ana his rea
sons therefor Within ten tlOl days hfte
such suspension the employee may, u n
desires file an appeal with the civil
I SERVICE CON MISSION, VINO Hhhll holS
an inquiry within ten ti0l days there
after, and said commission shall make
decision within ten nOi days after tn
hearing whether the employee shall h
permanently dismissed from the servic
OF the city or reinstated In his employ
ment, All such hearings shall be public
The decision OF the commission shall b.
final
In order tot an employee 20 file an ap
peal as harelnafter provided, Il shall onll
be necessary for him 20 file writer
statement setting out therein the de
pArtment IN which he was employed
when and for what suspended denyini
the Truth Of the matters charged IN tn
statement of the officer 80 suspeRdini
him. and that he desires an appeal from
said order OF suspension which statemen
OF appeal shall be filed and sworn TO b.
the employee 80 suspended
.. The CIVIL SERVICE COM MISSION
with the approval OF the mayor and boar,
OF commissioners. shall nave power at al
times to make proper rules OF regulatiOh
cyil service. and when such rules o
regulations snHli have been a adt u shal
cause -uch rules 10 be published In somi
newHpspe In the city OF Tulsa. provided
thai no person under the Sc Of twenty
one (Q or over the age OF forty 'tiy'
tlbl years, nnless at the adoption OF thu
amendment he shall have served tn
City OF Tulsa IN such department TOT
period OF five 'bJ years snall be eligibl
service, and provided further that n,
{ rules or regulations shan ever be adopted
whion shah permit the appointment D
employment Of any oerSon wlthou
good character OF unfit or incom peten
} for the discharge OF the duties thereo