The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-12-08
not lose their seniority.

not lose their seniority.
Section 8. No officer or employee
after six months continuous employ
ment shall be removed or discharged
except for cause, upon written
charges and after an opportunity to
be heard in his own defense as in this
ordinance hereinafter provided. Such
charges shall be Investigated by or
before such civil service commission.
The finding and decision of such
commission shall be forthwith certi-
fled to the chief or other appointed
or superior officer and shall be FORTH
with enforced by such officer. No
thing in this act shall limit the power
of any officer to suspend a subOr6in-
ate for a reasonable period, not ex-
ceeding sixty days, for the purpose
of discipline or pending Investigation
of charges when he deems such sus-
pension advisable.
Section 10. The commission, in
classifying positions under this or
dinance, shall prescribe standards of
fitness and efficiency for each office
employment or position and shall
adapt each examination to the re-
spective position. All examinations
shall be impartial, fair and practical,
and designed to test the relative
cants to discharge the duties of the
respective employments which they
seek to fill. Notice of the time and
place and scope of an examinations
shall be given ter, days in advance by
publication and by posting in the
same manner as rules for the respec-
tive departments.
Notice shall also be mailed to all
applicants on the proper register at
least ten days in advance Applicants
for positions of trust shall he espec-
tally examined as to moral character
sobriety and integrity; and no ques-
tions in any examination shall re-
late to religious convictions or affili-
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ment shall assist the commission in
making up it's classification and in
conducting examinations in the de-
partment on request.
Section IL. Charges against any
police employee may be filed by any
superior officer of the department or
by any member of the commission on
his own motion: and thereupon the
commission shall try the charges af-
ter no less than ten davs' written
shall set forth the charges filed. The
trial shall be open to the public. Each
commissioner shall have power to ad-
minister oaths and issue subpoenas;
and disobedience to the same shall be
punishable the same as contempt of
county. Witnesses. except public
officials. shall be entitled to the same
fees and mileage as for attendance
upon the district court. Such en-
erior officer pending determination of
the charges against him.
If the commission upon trial finds
the employee guilty Of inefficiency,
breach of duty or misconduct, he
shall be removed, reduced or sus-
pended. and his name be stricken
from the service register. If the
charges are not sustained, the cases
shall be dismissed; and if the en-
plOyee has been suspended he shall
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be paid all back pay for the period
of suspension. Findings of the COM
mission shall be filed within three
days after the completion of the
hearing. Any persons suspended, re-
duced or removed by the commission
after hearing may appeal to the dis
trict court by serving written notice
upon the secretary of the commission
within ten days after the filing of it's
order and receipt of the same by the
within five days certify a copy of the
proceedings to the clerk of the dis
trict court, and the matter shall be
before the said court for the review
of the reSonableness of the finding
based upon the evidence presented.
Section IL. No applicant for exam
nation. appointment or promotion in
the police department shall offer,
give or promise any money, service
or other thing to pay any person in
connection with such proposed APP
pointment or promotion. No employee
of said department shall in any man.
ner. either directly or indirectly,
solicit or pay, or be in any manner
concerned in soliciting, receiving or
paying, any subscription assessment
or contribution for political purposes.
No person shall solicit or receive any
assessment, contribution or payment
for political purposes. Any person
violating the provisions of this seeL
ton shall be guilty of misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not less than $1,000 nor more
than $4,000 or imprisoned for not to
exceed more than 80 days, or both:
and If such person is an employee of
any service under this ordinance he
shall be subject to suspension and
removal as above provided.
Section 10. The present police Of
ficers shall continue to hold their
present positions until changed or re-
moved pursuant to the terms of this
ordinance. ~
Passed, adopted and ordered pub
lished by the Common Council of the
City of Redwood Falls, Minnesota, on
the 5th day of December. 1888.
J. F. KNUDSON.
Mayor.
Attest: F. B. FORBES,
City Recorder
The foregoing ordinance was by me
duly approved this 5th day of Decem-
Der, 1888. -
Fl Mayor.