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AL Code § 45-28A-42.09 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.09 - Emergency Appointments.

Section 45-28A-42.09Emergency appointments. The civil service board may, in an emergency, or in cases where it deems proper, authorize the chief of police to appoint for temporary service such number of police officers as in the opinion of the board of commissioners of such city the existing conditions demand. All officers so appointed shall be furnished with badges, the badge to be different in size and design from the regulation badges used by the regular members of the police and detective force, and shall have the words special officer across the face of them in large letters. The chief of police shall furnish the board with the names and addresses of all persons to whom he or she has issued special badges, and at the expiration of their appointment shall cause all such badges to be taken up. It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his or her possession any such commission or any badge of a police officer of such cities unless same has been issued to him or her by the civil service board. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §10.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.10 - Violations.

Section 45-28A-42.10Violations. It shall be a violation of this subpart for any official, officer, or other person to issue, give, or lend one of the regulation police or detective badges to any person other than a regularly employed police officer or detective of the city. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §11.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.11 - Removal.

Section 45-28A-42.11Removal. No member of either the police department or of the fire department shall be removed or discharged, nor shall the chief of the police department nor the chief of the fire department, be removed, discharged, or demoted, except for cause, upon written charges or complaint and after an opportunity to face his or her accusers and be heard in his or her own defense. Such charges shall be investigated by and before the civil service board after not less than five days’ notice in writing with a copy of such charges shall have been given to the person charged, and the hearings thereof and thereon shall be public. The decision of the board thereon shall be given in writing to the accused, and shall be spread on the minutes. In all proceedings before the civil service board the city attorney may appear and represent the interest of the city when ordered to do so by the civil service board. Any attorney secured by the person or persons making the charge or accusation shall be allowed to represent the prosecution, and any attorney selected by the accused shall be allowed to represent the accused. Any person may be served with a subpoena to appear and testify, or to produce books and papers relevant to such investigation before the civil service board, such subpoena to be issued as subpoenas are now issued and provided for in the circuit courts of this state; and anyone who shall refuse or neglect to appear and testify, or produce such books and papers relevant to such investigation as commanded in such subpoena, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished as misdemeanors are punished under the laws of the State of Alabama. The fees of witnesses for attendance and travel shall be the same as fees for witnesses before the circuit courts of this state, and shall be paid from the treasury of the city affected. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §12.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.12 - Appeals.

Section 45-28A-42.12Appeals. An appeal may be taken from any decision of the civil service board in the following manner: Within 10 days after any final decision of such board, any party, including the governing body of the city, feeling aggrieved at the decision of the board, may appeal from any such decision to the Circuit Court of the county. Upon the filing of any such appeal, notice thereof shall be served upon any member of the board, and a copy of the notice shall be served upon the appellee or his or her attorney, by the appellant. Such appeal shall be heard at the earliest possible date by the court sitting without a jury, unless a jury is demanded by the appellant at the time of filing of notice of appeal or by the appellee within 10 days after notice of appeal has been served upon him or her. In event either party demands a jury as provided above, the appeal shall be heard at the next regular jury term of court and shall have priority over all other cases. No bonds shall be required for such an appeal and such an appeal shall be effected by filing a notice and request therefor by the appellant upon any member of the civil service board and upon the appellee as herein provided for above and also by filing a notice and request for an appeal with the clerk of the circuit court. It shall not be necessary to enter exceptions to the rulings of the civil service board, and the hearing of the appeal shall be a trial de novo. An appeal may be taken from any judgment of the circuit court to the court of civil appeals or the supreme court as now provided by law. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §13.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.13 - Election of Chair.

Section 45-28A-42.13Election of chair. The civil service board shall elect one of its members as chair who shall hold office as such chair at the pleasure of the board. The civil service board shall hold regular monthly meetings at the same time each month with the meeting dates established and made public through posting at the meeting place and through the media by the first day of each year for the transaction of business. It may hold special meetings at any time as called by the chair provided at least 48 hours’ advance public notice of such special meetings has been both posted on the bulletin board nearest to the meeting place in city hall and has been given through the news media. All meetings of the board shall be held in the city hall. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §14; Act 88-434, p. 634, §1; Act 88-830, p. 1163, §1.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.14 - Recordkeeping.

Section 45-28A-42.14Recordkeeping. The chair shall provide for keeping minutes of board meetings and records of all business transacted by the board at each and every meeting. All such minutes and records shall be open for public inspection in the office of the city clerk during normal business hours for city hall. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §15; Act 88-434, p. 634, §1.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.15 - Compensation for Attendance.

Section 45-28A-42.15Compensation for attendance. The compensation of the civil service board shall be ten dollars ($10) for each member for each meeting attended, not to exceed for each member one hundred dollars ($100) per annum. The president and board of city commissioners, or other governing body of such city, shall provide for the salaries and expenses of the civil service board, and shall provide in the annual budget of all cities coming within this subpart an estimated appropriation sufficient to cover the salaries and expenses of such board. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §16.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.16 - Solicitation Prohibited.

Section 45-28A-42.16Solicitation prohibited. No officer or employee of any police or fire department shall solicit orally, or by letter or otherwise, or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving any assessment or subscription or contribution for any candidate, political party, or political purpose whatsoever, provided however, that this section shall apply only to municipal elections. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §17.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.17 - Rewards for Contributions.

Section 45-28A-42.17Rewards for contributions. No officer or other member of the police or fire department, or other person, shall in any wise undertake or threaten to degrade, discharge, or promote, or in any manner change the official rank or pay of any officer or employee, or promise or threaten to do so, for giving or withholding, or neglecting to make any contribution of money or any valuable thing for any party or for any political purpose whatsoever. No employee of the police or fire department shall receive any promotion as a reward for his or her support of any candidate or political party. No employee of either department shall be reduced in rank or pay as punishment for his or her failure to support any candidate for political office. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §18.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.18 - Political Recommendations.

Section 45-28A-42.18Political recommendations. No recommendation by any officer or official, whether the officer or official be a city, county, state, or national officer or official, shall be considered by any person concerned in any examination or appointment under this subpart, except as to the general moral character of the applicant. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §19.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.19 - Violations.

Section 45-28A-42.19Violations. Any person in the service of the city by appointment under civil service rules who shall wilfully, or through culpable negligence, violate any of the provisions of this subpart, and who shall be found guilty after a trial before the civil service board shall be dismissed from the service of the city, and shall not be subject to reappointment for two years. Any officer or employee of the city other than those holding office under the civil service rules, who shall wilfully or through culpable negligence, violate any of the provisions of this subpart, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars ($50), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), unless same be otherwise provided therein, and the office so held by such person, by force of such conviction, shall be rendered vacant, and such persons shall not again be allowed to hold any office or place of employment under the city thereafter for two years. Any other person who shall wilfully, or through culpable negligence violate any of the provisions of this subpart shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be punished by a fine in the sum of not less than fifty dollars ($50) and not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500). (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §20.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.20 - Application to Members.

Section 45-28A-42.20Application to members. Every member of the police department and every member of the fire departments in all cities coming within the provisions of this subpart, who was such member on September 4, 1951, shall retain his or her position without examination, and be subject to all the conditions and benefits of this subpart. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §21.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.21 - Ineligibles.

Section 45-28A-42.21Ineligibles. No person shall be eligible to take the civil service examination or to appointment as a member of either the police or fire departments in cities coming within the provisions of this subpart who is not a citizen of the United States or who has ever been convicted of a felony, or who does not possess a good moral character. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §22.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.22 - Bond Required.

Section 45-28A-42.22Bond required. No applicant for a position on the police force who has fulfilled all other requirements of this subpart and been appointed to a position as a member of the police department of the city shall enter upon the discharge and performance of his or her duties as a member of such police department until he or she has filed with the city clerk of such municipality a bond conditioned according to the law relating to official bonds, in the following penal sums: Chief of police, assistant chief of police, and all other members of the police departments one thousand dollars ($1,000) each. Unless such bond is furnished by such appointee as above prescribed, within 10 days from the date he or she is appointed by such civil service board his or her appointment shall be vacated by the board, unless the board for good cause shown shall grant the appointee additional time not to exceed 10 additional days within which to procure the execution of such bond and file same; the bonds of such officers shall be paid for by the city employing them. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §23.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.23 - Rules to Be Printed.

Section 45-28A-42.23Rules to be printed. The civil service board shall draw and have printed such rules and regulations for the government of the departments, in accordance with this subpart, as may seem necessary. The board shall have the power and authority to fix the maximum and minimum age limits of applicants for examinations, and may specify the weight, height, etc., required of all applicants. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §24.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.24 - Penalties.

Section 45-28A-42.24Penalties. The violation of any of the provisions of this subpart by any person or persons is hereby declared to be a commission by such person or persons of a misdemeanor; and, unless otherwise provided herein, any person who commits such misdemeanor shall, on conviction, be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500), and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county wherein such misdemeanor is committed for not more than six months at the discretion of the court. (Acts 1951, No. 671, p. 1158, §25.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 1 - Civil Service System.|Section 45-28A-42.25 - Monthly Compensation.

Section 45-28A-42.25Monthly compensation. The members of the Civil Service Board of the City of Gadsden shall receive compensation in the amount of fifty dollars ($50) a month. (Act 88-611, p. 952, §1.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.50 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 2 - Policemen and Firemen's Retirement Fund Board of Trustees.|Section 45-28A-42.50 - Applicability.

Section 45-28A-42.50Applicability. This subpart shall apply only to the City of Gadsden, Alabama. (Act 80-442, p. 674, §1.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.51 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 2 - Policemen and Firemen's Retirement Fund Board of Trustees.|Section 45-28A-42.51 - Creation.

Section 45-28A-42.51Creation. There is hereby created, in connection with the regularly organized and paid police department and fire department of the City of Gadsden, a board of trustees of the policemen and firemen’s retirement fund. Such board shall be known and called the Board of Trustees of the Policemen’s and Firemen’s Retirement Fund of the City of Gadsden. The board of trustees shall be constituted and selected as hereinafter provided and directed; and in each city to which this subpart applies there is also created a policemen’s and firemen’s retirement fund for the benefit of persons hereinafter named, to be derived and raised in the manner hereinafter provided. The Policemen’s and Firemen’s Retirement Fund of the City of Gadsden and the board of trustees of such fund shall, after this subpart becomes law, be governed by this subpart, and such fund shall be managed and controlled by a board of trustees conforming to this subpart. (Act 80-442, p. 674, §2.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.52 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 2 - Policemen and Firemen's Retirement Fund Board of Trustees.|Section 45-28A-42.52 - Composition; Compensation.

Section 45-28A-42.52Composition; compensation. The board of trustees of the policemen’s and firemen’s retirement fund shall be composed of seven members consisting of the chief of the police department, the chief of the fire department, a retired police officer, a retired member of the fire department, a police officer, a member of the fire department, and a person with financial or investment experience appointed by the Mayor of Gadsden and subject to the approval of the Gadsden City Council. All persons appointed shall serve for four-year terms. The board shall elect its own chair from its membership. The chair shall serve a two-year term and shall serve until a successor is elected. The board members shall serve without compensation. (Act 80-442, p. 674, §3; Act 96-414, p. 521, §1.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.56 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 2 - Policemen and Firemen's Retirement Fund Board of Trustees.|Section 45-28A-42.56 - Recordkeeping.

Section 45-28A-42.56Recordkeeping. The board of trustees or custodian of funds designated by the board shall make a monthly report to the governing body of the city employing such policemen and firemen concerning the condition of such policemen's and firemen's retirement fund. The board of trustees shall keep minutes of every meeting in a well bound book designed for that purpose which minute book shall be available to any contributing member of the police department or fire department on his or her request. Each six months the board of trustees shall post in a conspicuous place in each police station and each fire station in the city a statement itemizing all receipts, disbursements, expenditures, and pensions paid by the board for the preceding six months' period, stating in detail the source of such receipts, and to whom all such expenditures, disbursements, and pension payments were made, together with the amount of each. All such records shall be available to any contributing member at any time upon request. (Act 80-442, p. 674, §8.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.57 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 2 - Policemen and Firemen's Retirement Fund Board of Trustees.|Section 45-28A-42.57 - Warrants.

Section 45-28A-42.57Warrants. All monies ordered to be paid from such policemen's and firemen's retirement fund shall be paid by the secretary-treasurer of such fund only upon warrants signed by the chair of such board of trustees and countersigned by one associate member of such board of trustees and by the secretary-treasurer; and no warrant shall be drawn on such fund except by order of the board of trustees, which shall be duly and regularly entered in the record of the proceedings of the board of trustees. Any monies wrongfully paid from such fund shall be charged against the members of the board of trustees. (Act 80-442, p. 674, §9.)
AL Code § 45-28A-45.58 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 2 - Policemen and Firemen's Retirement Fund Board of Trustees.|Section 45-28A-45.58 - Exemptions.

Section 45-28A-45.58Exemptions. No portion of the policemen's and firemen's retirement fund shall, before or after its order for distribution by the board of trustees to the person or persons entitled thereto under this section, be held, seized, taken, subjected to, detained, or levied upon, by virtue of any attachment, garnishment, execution, injunction, writ, order, decree, or any other process whatsoever, issued out of or by any court of this state, for the payment or satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any debt, damage, demand, claim, judgment, or decree, against any beneficiary of such fund, but shall be exempt therefrom. The fund shall be sacredly kept, held, and distributed for the purposes named in this subpart, and for no other purpose whatsoever. (Act 80-442, p. 674, §10.)
AL Code § 45-28A-42.59 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 28A - Etowah County Municipalities.|Article 4 - Gadsden.|Part 3 - Employees.|Division 2 - Policemen and Firemen's Retirement Fund Board of Trustees.|Section 45-28A-42.59 - Insufficient Funding.

Section 45-28A-42.59Insufficient funding. If at any time there shall not be sufficient money in the policemen's and firemen's retirement fund to pay each person entitled to the benefit thereof, the full amount per month as herein provided or any time the principal of the fund reaches an amount of seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) or less, then an equal percentage of such monthly payment or payments shall be made to each beneficiary until the fund shall be replenished to warrant the payment in full to each of the beneficiaries; provided that the provisions of this section concerning prorated payments shall not be interpreted to include those members drawing survivors’ benefits and those members of the fund who are 100 percent disabled and have no other personal income except those benefits derived from this subpart. The board of trustees, or insurance custodian as provided for in this subpart, is authorized to take such action as it deems necessary periodically to determine the actuarial status of the pension fund. (Act 80-442, p. 674, §11.)