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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2481. Classified and unclassified service

RS 33:2481 - Classified and unclassified service
A. The classified service shall comprise every position, except those included in the unclassified service, to which the right of employee selection, appointment, supervision, and discharge is vested in the municipal government or with an officer or employee thereof, and which has as its primary duty and responsibility one of the following:
(FIRE)
(1) The chief and assistant chiefs; the intradepartmental division, bureau, squad, platoon and company officers of the fire department.
(2) Fire fighting.
(3) Fire prevention; inspection.
(4) Driving, tillering, and operation of fire apparatus.
(5) Operations and maintenance of radio, fire alarm, or signal system.
(6) Fire department instructors in employee training.
(7) Fire salvage and overhauling services, first aid, advance life support, and emergency medical services.
(8) Automotive or fire apparatus repairs, if such service is operated exclusively by and for either or both the fire or police department.
(9) Secretary to the chief. Departmental records clerk.
(POLICE)
(1) The chief and assistant chiefs; the intradepartmental division, bureau, squad, platoon, and company officers of the police department.
(2) Law enforcement.
(3) Crime prevention; identification; inspection; and investigation.
(4) Police headquarters desk service; jailer, and police matron.
(5) Operations and maintenance of radio, police alarm, or signal system.
(6) Police department instructors in employee training.
(7) Police control of traffic (vehicular and pedestrian.)
(8) Automotive or police apparatus repairs, if such service is operated exclusively by and for either or both the police or fire department.
(9) Secretary to the chief. Department records clerk.
B. The unclassified service shall comprise the following:
(1) All officers, employees, and positions of employment in the municipal government, not having as a principal duty one of the duties hereinabove provided in the classified service.
(2) Officers elected by popular vote and persons appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices.
(3) Secretaries, stenographers, and all clerical positions not specifically included in the classified service.
(4) Pound keepers, dog catchers, janitors, porters, elevator operators, chefs, kitchen helpers and workers, mechanic's helper, car washers, unskilled labor, special guards at schools, or any part-time, or temporary employee.
(5) Any position of employment, the duties of which are included in the classified service, to which the right of employee selection, appointment, supervision, and discharge is vested in and with those other than the municipal government or an officer or employee thereof.
(6) The chief of police for the city of Hammond.
Acts 1985, No. 998, §1, eff. July 23, 1985; Acts 2001, No. 5, §1.
NOTE: See Acts 2001, No. 5, §2, relative to application of the Act.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2481.1. Emergency medical services

RS 33:2481.1 - Emergency medical services
A. Any municipality subject to the provisions of this Part may, in accordance with this Section, establish within the fire department an emergency medical services division. Assignments to the division shall be made from within the classified service. The local fire and police civil service board shall prescribe qualifications for positions within the division and the office of state examiner shall prepare and administer a competitive test for the entrance level position in the division. All positions in the division above the entrance level shall be by promotion in accordance with the other provisions of this Part based upon promotional tests prepared and administered by the office of state examiner to determine fitness for such promotional positions as such positions are described by the rules adopted by the fire and police civil service board. No person shall be admitted to a test for any position in the emergency medical services division who does not hold as a minimum a certificate as a "Certified Emergency Medical Technician - Basic" as that term is defined in R.S. 40:1131.
B. A fire and police civil service board may by rule require that any person assigned to emergency medical services division shall maintain minimum certification as a "Certified Emergency Medical Technician - Basic" as provided in R.S. 40:1131. Any person not maintaining such certification shall be returned to the position that he occupied in the classified service prior to his assignment to the emergency medical services division in accordance with the other provisions of this Part.
C. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit any municipality, parish, or fire protection district from establishing an emergency medical services division, department, or other agency rendering such services outside of the fire department without compliance with the provisions of this Section. However, a fire department may provide advance life support and emergency medical services without creating a separate division for that purpose.
Acts 1985, No. 998, §1, eff. July 23, 1985.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2481.2. Lake Charles police chief; term of office

RS 33:2481.2 - Lake Charles police chief; term of office
The city of Lake Charles may, by amendment to its home rule charter in accordance with law, establish procedures for the appointment of the position of police chief for a term of not less than six years. The position shall be a classified position, but the person appointed chief shall be subject to removal or reappointment at the expiration of the term of office in accordance with the procedures established by the city charter. The mayor may reappoint the police chief to a subsequent term in accordance with the provisions set forth in the city charter. If the mayor does not reappoint the police chief for a subsequent term, the new police chief must be appointed from a list of qualified candidates who have completed the same application process which applies to any other civil service applicant including competitive testing and evaluation. Except as provided in this Section, the office of police chief shall be subject to all provisions of this Part and all rules and regulations adopted by the state examiner and by the local fire and police civil service board.
Acts 2001, No. 709, §1, eff. June 25, 2001.
NOTE: See Acts 2001, No. 709, §2, relative to application of the Act.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2481.5. Deputy chief of police; competitive appointment; city of Alexandria

RS 33:2481.5 - Deputy chief of police; competitive appointment; city of Alexandria
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3 of Act No. 748 of the 2010 Regular Session of the Legislature, the governing authority of the city of Alexandria may create, by ordinance, the position of deputy chief of police in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 33:2481.4.
Acts 2012, No. 247, §1, eff. May 25, 2012.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2482. Right of employee who entered armed forces to be reinstated

RS 33:2482 - Right of employee who entered armed forces to be reinstated
Any regular and permanent employee who left a position of the departmental service, which now comes within the classified service, subsequent to May 1, 1940, and entered the armed forces of the United States shall be restored to his position and, thereafter, be subject to the rights and jurisdiction of the classified service created by this Part if he makes application therefor to the appointing authority within sixty days from the date of his honorable discharge or discharge under honorable conditions, and is physically and mentally capable of performing the work of his position to the satisfaction of the appointing authority.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2483. Classification plan

RS 33:2483 - Classification plan
Each board, as soon as practicable (not to exceed a period of eighteen months) after this Part takes effect in the municipality, shall adopt a classification plan for the fire and police services of the municipality. Each classification plan shall consist of classes to be designated either by standard titles, ranks, or a combination thereof, for all positions included in the classified service for each of the fire and police services. The classification plan may be divided into groups of classes. The various classes of positions shall be arranged in each classification plan so as to show the principal and natural lines of promotion and demotion. The classification plan shall be adopted as rules of the board, in the manner provided by this Part for the adoption of rules. Rules creating the classification plan, future classifications, abolition of any classification, any amendment thereto, or revision thereof shall be adopted by a board only after consultation with the appointing authority, and the state examiner. The original classification plan to be established when this Part takes effect in a municipality shall be prepared, after consultation with the appointing authority, and submitted to the board for its approval and adoption, by the state examiner. The board may amend or revise the classification plans before adopting them. The state examiner shall advise and assist the board in all future classifications when requested to do so.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2484. Allocation of positions to classes

RS 33:2484 - Allocation of positions to classes
The board, or chairman thereof subject to the subsequent approval of the board, as soon as practicable (not exceeding forty-five days) after the adoption of a classification plan, after consultation with the appointing authorities concerned, shall allocate each position in the classified service to its appropriate class; and thereafter shall likewise allocate each new position created in the service, and, when for the benefit of the service, reallocate positions from class to class.
Whenever the duties of a position are so changed by the appointing authority that the position in effect becomes one of a different class from that to which it is allocated, the change shall operate to abolish the position and to create a new position of the different class.
Whenever the board finds any change in the duties of any position in the classified service was brought about by the appointing authority to effect a reduction in the classification of any employee because of political, religious, or discriminatory reasons, or without just cause, it shall refuse to recognize any such action, and shall order the appointing authority to continue the employee in the position and class with all rights and privileges.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2485. Use of class titles

RS 33:2485 - Use of class titles
The title of each class shall be the official title of every position allocated to the class, for all purposes having to do with the position as such, and shall be used to the exclusion of all other titles on all pay rolls, budget estimates, and official records and reports pertaining to the position, except that any abbreviation or code symbol approved by the board may be used to designate a position of a class. Any other title satisfactory to the appointing authority may be used in official correspondence and in any other connection not having to do with the personnel processes covered by this Part. No employee shall be appointed, employed, or paid under any title other than that of the class to which the position occupied by him is allocated.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2486. Status of incumbent of position when allocated

RS 33:2486 - Status of incumbent of position when allocated
Every person employed in the municipal fire and police services for a continuous period of at least six calendar months immediately preceding the date that this Part takes effect in the municipality, who was regularly and permanently appointed to a position coming under the classified service, shall be inducted into and bound under the classified service, the provisions of this Part, and the rules adopted hereunder.
When any position is first allocated hereunder, or is reallocated to a different class to correct an error in its previous allocation, or because of a change in the duties of a position which has the effect of abolishing the position and creating a new position of another class, the employee in the position may continue to serve therein, with the status and all the rights and privileges he would have had under this Part if he had been originally appointed by examination and certification hereunder to a position of the class to which the position has been allocated or reallocated. Such employee however may be transferred without further tests of fitness or certification to any position of the class to which the position was previously allocated while held by the employee.
Any employee who feels himself aggrieved because of any allocation or change in classification affecting his position shall, upon his request, be heard thereon by the board; and the board shall hear and decide the complaint in any manner it deems proper.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2487. Methods of filling vacancies

RS 33:2487 - Methods of filling vacancies
Vacancies in positions in the classified service shall be filled by one of the following methods:
(1) Demotion
(2) Transfer
(3) Reinstatement
(4) Promotional appointment
(5) Competitive appointment
(6) Reemployment
(7) Temporary appointment
A vacancy shall be considered filled under any of the methods specified above, and employment thereunder effective, as of the date on which the employee enters upon the duties thereof.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2488. Demotion

RS 33:2488 - Demotion
Demotions of regular employees shall be made by the appointing authority when it becomes necessary to reduce the number of employees in the classified service or in any class therein. Demotions from any class, except for disciplinary action or because of the abolition of an entire class in the classified service, shall be made by demoting employees from lowest to highest in point of total seniority earned in positions of the class plus that earned in any higher classes in the classified service. The names of regular employees demoted for any reason, except for disciplinary action, shall be recorded upon the reinstatement list for the class from which they are demoted in the order in which the demotions are made.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2489. Transfer

RS 33:2489 - Transfer
Any employee may be transferred from any position in the classified service to any other position of the same class within the classified service, at the pleasure of the appointing authority without notice to and confirmation by the board.
Any regular employee so transferred shall have the right of appeal to his board upon the grounds (1) that his transfer was made to a position not included within the class to which his position was previously allocated, or (2) that the position to which he has been transferred is not included within the classified service; or (3) the transfer was made deliberately to discriminate against him.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2491.1. Promotional employment lists; Shreveport

RS 33:2491.1 - Promotional employment lists; Shreveport
A. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the municipal fire and police civil service board of the city of Shreveport shall establish and maintain employment lists containing names of persons eligible for appointment to the various classes of positions in the classified service as provided in R.S. 33:2491.
B. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:2491 and Article XIV, Section 15.1, Paragraph 21 of the Constitution of 1921 made statutory by Article X, Section 18 of the Louisiana Constitution, departmental service in any classified police position with the primary duty or responsibility of police headquarters desk service, jailer, police matron, operations and maintenance of radio, police alarm, or signal system, automotive or police apparatus repairs, secretary to the chief, or department records clerk shall not be counted by the municipal fire and police civil service board of the city of Shreveport in determining the total seniority in the departmental service of a person for purposes of ranking the name of that person on a promotional employment list for a classified police position with the primary duty or responsibility of law enforcement, a position as chief or assistant chief, or a position as an intradepartmental division, bureau, squad, platoon, or company officer of the police department.
C. The provisions of this Section shall not be construed to affect the pay, retirement, or any other benefit based upon departmental service of any person occupying a classified police position in the municipal fire and police civil service of the city of Shreveport.
Acts 1989, No. 692, §2; Acts 1989, No. 799, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2491.2. Promotional employment lists; Sulphur

RS 33:2491.2 - Promotional employment lists; Sulphur
A. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the municipal fire and police civil service board of the city of Sulphur shall establish and maintain employment lists containing names of persons eligible for appointment to the various classes of positions in the classified service as provided in R.S. 33:2491.
B.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:2491 and Article XIV, Section 15.1, Paragraph 21 of the Constitution of 1921 made statutory by Article X, Section 18 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, departmental service in any classified police position with the primary duty or responsibility of police headquarters desk service, jailer, police matron, operations and maintenance of radio, police alarm, or signal system, automotive or police apparatus repairs, secretary to the chief, or department records clerk shall not be counted by the municipal fire and police civil service board of the city of Sulphur in determining the total seniority in the departmental service of a person for purposes of ranking the name of that person on a promotional employment list for a classified police position with the primary duty or responsibility of law enforcement, a position as chief or assistant chief, or a position as an intradepartmental division, bureau, squad, platoon, or company officer of the police department.
(2) However, if the person has been employed in departmental service for at least five years in any classified police position with the primary duty or responsibility of law enforcement, a position as chief or assistant chief, or a position as an intradepartmental division, bureau, squad, platoon, or company officer of the police department, then all service of such person in any classified police position with the primary duty or responsibility of police headquarters desk service, jailer, police matron, operations and maintenance of radio, police alarm, or signal system, automotive or police apparatus repairs, secretary to the chief, or department records clerk shall be counted by the municipal fire and police civil service board of the city of Sulphur in determining the total seniority in the departmental service of such person for purposes of ranking the name of that person on a promotional employment list.
C. The provisions of this Section shall not be construed to affect the pay, retirement, or any other benefit based upon departmental service of any person occupying a classified police position in the municipal fire and police civil service of the city of Sulphur.
Acts 2001, No. 980, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2491.3. Promotional employment lists; limitations

RS 33:2491.3 - Promotional employment lists; limitations
A. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, any municipal fire and police civil service board covered by this Part, except as provided in R.S. 33:2491.1 and 2491.2, shall establish and maintain employment lists containing names of persons eligible for appointment to the various classes of positions in the classified service as provided in R.S. 33:2491.
NOTE: Subsection B as amended by Acts 2015, No. 243, §1. See Acts 2015, No. 240, §2, regarding late eff. date for identical changes.
B. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:2491 and Article XIV, Section 15.1, Paragraph 21 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1921 made statutory by Article X, Section 18 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, departmental service in any classified police position with the primary duty or responsibility of police headquarters desk service, jailer, police matron, operations and maintenance of radio, police alarm or signal system, automotive or police apparatus repairs, secretary to the chief, or department records clerk shall not be counted by the municipal fire and police civil service board of the city in determining the total departmental or promotional seniority in the departmental service of a person for purposes of ranking the name of that person on a promotional employment list for a classified police position with the primary duty or responsibility of law enforcement, a position as a chief or assistant chief, or a position as an intradepartmental division, bureau, squad, platoon, or company officer of the police department.
C. The provisions of this Section shall not be construed to affect the pay, retirement, or any other benefits based upon departmental service of any person occupying a classified police position in the municipal fire and police civil service.
D. The provisions of this Section shall not be applicable to any person employed prior to July 1, 2004, in a classified police position with the primary duty or responsibility of law enforcement, a position as chief or assistant chief, or a position as an intradepartmental division, bureau, squad, platoon, or company officer of the police department.
Acts 2004, No. 429, §2, eff. July 1, 2004; Acts 2015, No. 240, §1, eff. Aug. 1, 2016; Acts 2015, No. 243, §1, eff. June 29, 2015.
NOTE: Subsection B as amended by Acts 2015, No. 243, §1. See Acts 2015, No. 240, §2, regarding late eff. date for identical changes.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2491.4. Promotional employment lists; tests; city of West Monroe; classified police service

RS 33:2491.4 - Promotional employment lists; tests; city of West Monroe; classified police service
A. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the maximum period of time for which a name may remain upon a promotional employment list established and maintained by the municipal fire and police civil service board of the city of West Monroe for any of the various classes of positions in the classified police service shall be forty-eight months.
B. The minimum period of time for which a name may remain upon a promotional employment list established and maintained by the municipal fire and police civil service board of the city of West Monroe for any of the various classes of positions in the classified police service shall be as provided in R.S. 33:2491(F).
C. Promotional tests for positions in the various classes in the classified police service in the city of West Monroe, except those classes in which positions shall be filled only from the competitive list, may be held as the needs of the service require, but shall be given as provided in R.S. 33:2492(6).
D. The provisions of this Section shall apply to any promotional employment list established and maintained by the municipal fire and police civil service board of the city of West Monroe for any of the various classes of positions in the classified police service containing the names of eligible persons on and after July 6, 2009.
Acts 2009, No. 329, §1, eff. July 6, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2495.2. Continuation of system

RS 33:2495.2 - Continuation of system
If the city of New Iberia which has a municipal fire and police civil service system in existence on January 1, 2008, ceases to operate either its fire department or its police department, the civil service system shall continue in full force and effect for the remaining department as provided by law.
Acts 2007, No. 163, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2008.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2495.3. Recruit and recruit period; certain municipalities

RS 33:2495.3 - Recruit and recruit period; certain municipalities
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the cities of Baton Rouge, Bossier City, Houma, Lafayette, Shreveport, and Zachary, no person selected for appointment to an entry-level position in the classified service from the competitive firefighter employment list who has not successfully completed formal training as required by Subsection B of this Section shall begin the working test period. However, such person shall be employed by the appointing authority and reported as a recruit and shall immediately begin his formal training.
B. Formal training for a person selected for appointment to an entry-level position as a firefighter in the classified service shall mean the enrollment in and successful completion of a fire training academy provided for through the appointing authority. All persons selected for appointment to an entry-level position as a firefighter in the classified service shall successfully complete the fire training academy whether or not such person was certified as a Firefighter I in accordance with National Fire Protection Association Standard 1001 prior to his selection for appointment.
C. The fire training academy provided for in Subsection B of this Section shall be for a duration as determined by the appointing authority. Upon the successful completion of the fire training academy, the recruit shall immediately begin the working test period.
D. The appointing authority shall, within fifteen days, advise the board that the recruit has successfully completed the fire training academy and has begun the working test period as a probational firefighter.
E. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require that a person selected for appointment to an entry-level position as a firefighter in the classified service be terminated if he fails to enroll in or successfully complete the fire training academy as required by Subsection B of this Section.
Acts 2015, No. 334, §1; Acts 2017, No. 194, §1; Acts 2018, No. 51, §1; Acts 2018, No. 260, §1; Acts 2021, No. 202, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2497. Leaves of absence

RS 33:2497 - Leaves of absence
The board shall adopt rules to provide for leaves of absence in the various classes of the classified service. Such rules shall provide for annual vacation and sick leaves with pay, and special leaves with or without pay. They may provide for special extended leaves with or without pay and for special extended leaves with or without pay or with reduced pay for employees disabled through injury or illness arising out of their employment. The right to regulate the time at which any employee may take an annual leave, or any other leave which is not beyond the control of the employee, shall be vested at all times with the appointing authority.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2498. Abolition of positions in the classified service

RS 33:2498 - Abolition of positions in the classified service
A. Whenever the appointing authority abolishes a position in the classified service and there is no position vacant in the respective class to which the regular employee of the abolished position may be transferred, the employee shall be transferred to any position of the same class which may be held by a provisional employee. If there is no such position he shall be transferred to another position in the respective class, and the holder of that position shall thereupon be demoted in the order provided by R.S. 33:2488.
B. Whenever an entire class is abolished in the classified service, the regular employees of the class shall be demoted to lower classes and priority to positions shall be governed by total seniority earned in the departmental service in the order of highest to lowest.
C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection B of this Section, in the Lafayette Police Department for the rank of lieutenant or above, and in the Lake Charles Police Department, whenever an entire class is abolished in the classified service, the regular employees of the class shall be demoted to lower classes and priority to positions shall be governed by total promotional seniority earned in the class in the order of highest to lowest. If two or more persons possess an equal amount of promotional seniority, the names of such persons shall be placed on the reinstatement list in the order of departmental seniority, from highest to lowest.
D. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection B of this Section, if an entire class in the Crowley Police Department is abolished in the classified service, the regular employees of the class shall be demoted to lower classes and priority to positions shall be governed by total promotional seniority earned in the class, from highest to lowest. If two or more persons possess an equal amount of promotional seniority, the names of such persons shall be placed on the reinstatement list in the order of departmental seniority, from highest to lowest.
Acts 2015, No. 240, §1, eff. Aug. 1, 2016; Acts 2015, No. 243, §1, eff. June 29, 2015; Acts 2016, No. 177, §1; Acts 2016, No. 178, §1; Acts 2016, No. 283, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2499. Lay-offs

RS 33:2499 - Lay-offs
If, for any reason, the lowest class in the classified service, or the lowest class in a respective group of classes, as grouped by the classification plan, should become overburdened with the number of persons holding positions therein, and a reduction of personnel becomes necessary, the reduction shall be made only by laying off persons without pay. The order of removal shall begin with the person youngest in point of his accumulated total service in the departmental service and shall continue upward until all persons to be removed have been laid off. Lay-offs shall be made from positions only within the classes above set forth. The names of persons laid off, the date, the class of position held, and the order in which each person was laid off shall be reported to the board by the appointing authority. The board shall, thereupon, enter such information upon the reemployment list applicable for the class from which each person was removed.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 316, §7.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2501.1. Authorization for awarding attorney fees

RS 33:2501.1 - Authorization for awarding attorney fees
When an appeal is taken by an employee in the classified service pursuant to R.S. 33:2501 to a municipal fire and police civil service board and the board determines, in reversing the decision of the appointing authority, that the corrective or disciplinary action taken by the appointing authority was without just cause as provided in R.S. 33:2501, the board may award to the appealing employee attorney fees to be assessed against the appointing authority not to exceed five thousand dollars in any one appeal.
Acts 1991, No. 1005, §1, eff. July 24, 1991; Acts 1993, No. 590, §1; Acts 1995, No. 878, §1, eff. June 28, 1995; Acts 2022, No. 306, §1, eff. June 10, 2022.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2502. Oath, testimony, production of records; refusal to testify

RS 33:2502 - Oath, testimony, production of records; refusal to testify
The board, and each of its members, shall have the same power and authority to administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, and compel the production of books and papers pertinent to any investigation or hearing authorized by this Part as is possessed by the district courts of Louisiana. Any person who (1) fails to appear in response to a subpoena, (2) fails to answer any question, except those which may incriminate him, (3) fails to produce any books or papers pertinent to any investigation or hearing, or (4) knowingly gives false testimony therein shall be subject to the penal Sections of this Part. In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, the district court within the jurisdiction of which the investigation is being carried on, or within the jurisdiction of which the person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found, or resides, or transacts business, upon application of the board, shall have the requisite jurisdiction to issue to the person an order requiring him to appear before the board, its member or agent, and to produce the required evidence or give testimony touching the matter under consideration or in question. Any person failing to obey such order may be punished by the court for contempt.
Any officer or employee in the classified service who wilfully refuses or fails to appear before any court, officer, board, body, or person properly authorized to conduct any hearing or inquiry, or any employee or officer, who, having appeared, refuses to testify or answer any relevant question relating to the affairs of government of the municipality or the conduct of any municipal officer or employee, except upon the ground that his testimony or answers would incriminate him, shall, in addition to any other penalty to which he may be subject, forfeit his position, and shall not be eligible for appointment to any position in the classified service for a period of six years.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2503. Duties of municipal officers and employees

RS 33:2503 - Duties of municipal officers and employees
A. The appointing authority shall report to the board within fifteen days following any appointment or employment in a position in the classified service, unless otherwise provided, the name of the appointee, the title and character of his office or employment and the date the employee commenced work in the position. The appointing authority shall also report the date of and official action in, or knowledge of, any separation, promotion, demotion, suspension, lay-off, reinstatement, or reemployment in the classified service.
B. An officer or employee of the municipality shall comply with, and aid in all proper ways in carrying out the provisions of this Part and the rules, regulations, and orders. All officers and employees shall furnish any records or information which the board or state examiner requests for any purpose of this Part.
Acts 2016, No. 669, §1, eff. June 17, 2016.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2505. Other prohibited acts

RS 33:2505 - Other prohibited acts
No person shall:
(1) Make any false statement, certificate, mark, rating, or report with regard to any test, certification, or appointment made under any provisions of this Part or commit or attempt to commit any fraud preventing the impartial execution of this Part and the rules.
(2) Directly or indirectly, give, render, pay, offer, solicit, or accept any money, service, or other valuable consideration for or on account of any appointment, proposed appointment, promotion, or proposed promotion to, or any advantage in, a position in the classified service.
(3) Defeat, deceive, or obstruct any person in his right to examination, eligibility, certification, or appointment under this Part, or furnish to any person any special or secret information for the purpose of affecting the rights or prospects of any person with respect to employment in the classified service.
(4) Require any employee in the classified service to perform an act, or neglect an act, which would be a reason for dismissal or disciplinary action of the employee.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2506. Legal services

RS 33:2506 - Legal services
If this Part, or its enforcement by the board is called into question in any judicial proceeding, or if any person fails or refuses to comply with the lawful orders or directions of the board, the board may call upon the attorney general, or the chief legal officer of the municipality, or may employ independent counsel to represent it in sustaining this Part and enforcing it. Nothing contained herein shall prevent any municipal officer, employee, or private citizen from taking legal action in the courts to enforce the provisions of this Part or of any rule, order, or other lawful action of the board.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2507. Penalties

RS 33:2507 - Penalties
Whoever wilfully violates any provision of this Part or of the rules shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and shall, for a period of six years, be ineligible for appointment to or employment in any position of the classified service. If he is an officer or employee of the classified service he shall forfeit his office or position.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2531. Mandatory civil service in certain municipalities, parishes and districts

RS 33:2531 - Mandatory civil service in certain municipalities, parishes and districts
Permanent appointments and promotions for paid firemen and policemen in the classified civil service as enumerated herein in all municipalities having a population of not less than seven thousand and not more than thirteen thousand, according to the last preceding decennial census of the United States for which the final report of population returns have been printed, published and distributed by the director of the census or according to a special census authorized by R.S. 1:11.1 subject to the approval of the local governing authority and verified by the state treasurer if said special census is later, and in all parishes and fire protection districts, shall be made only after certification pursuant to a general system based upon merit, efficiency and fitness, under which certificates shall be based on examinations which, so far as practical, shall be competitive, and all employees in the classified service shall be employed from those eligible under such certification.
Acts 1964, No. 282, §1. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 101, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2531.1. Continuation of coverage by Part

RS 33:2531.1 - Continuation of coverage by Part
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the provisions of this Part shall continue to be applicable to any municipality, parish, or fire protection district which, prior to July 1, 2006, established a classified civil service pursuant to this Part.
Acts 1991, No. 743, §1, eff. July 18, 1991; Acts 1991, No. 1005, §1, eff. July 24, 1991; Acts 2006, No. 490, §1, eff. July 1, 2006.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2534. Effective date of provisions

RS 33:2534 - Effective date of provisions
Any system of municipal fire and police civil service under Act 102 of 1944, as amended, or under the provisions of R.S. 33:2471-33:2508 which is in force on the effective date of this Part is continued in effect under the provisions of this Part.
The rights of any person under Act 102 of 1944, as amended, and under the above Sections of the Revised Statutes or under any fire and police civil service laws, which exist on the effective date of this Part are continued in effect. Every rule, classification plan or allocation established under the above provisions which is in force on the effective date of this Part is continued in effect until it is amended or repealed by the proper authority under this Part.
Acts 1964, No. 282, §1. Amended by Acts 1965, No. 146, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2535. System of classified civil service

RS 33:2535 - System of classified civil service
There is created, in the municipal government, in each parish government and in the government of each fire protection district, a classified civil service embracing the positions of employment, the officers, and employees of the fire and police services in municipalities covered by this Part, and of fire and police services in the parishes and the fire protection districts, respectively. The classified civil service shall be known as "The Fire and Police Civil Service".
Acts 1964, No. 282, §1. Amended by Acts 1965, No. 146, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2536.1. St. Landry Parish Fire District No. 3 Civil Service Board; compensation of members

RS 33:2536.1 - St. Landry Parish Fire District No. 3 Civil Service Board; compensation of members
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Part to the contrary, the members of the St. Landry Parish Fire District No. 3 Civil Service Board shall receive from funds available to the board compensation in an amount equal to and the same as the members of the Fire Board of Commissioners of St. Landry Parish Fire District No. 3, plus the same amount as said commissioners for mileage going to and from the meetings for the board.
Added by Acts 1981, No. 148, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2536.2. Jefferson Parish; board and board secretary

RS 33:2536.2 - Jefferson Parish; board and board secretary
A. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:2536(B)(1)(a), to be eligible for appointment to or to serve as a member of the Jefferson Parish Fire Civil Service Board, a person shall be a citizen of the United States of America, a resident of Jefferson Parish for at least five years preceding his appointment, and at the time of his appointment, a qualified voter of the parish.
B. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 33:2536(L), the Jefferson Parish Fire Civil Service Board may fill the office of secretary in one of the following ways:
(1) By employing and paying on a part-time basis any other person a salary not to exceed fifty percent of the maximum rate of the salary of a full-time department records clerk of the Jefferson Parish Fire Civil Service System, which salary shall be subject to approval by the parish governing authority and the parish president.
(2) By assigning the duties of the board secretary to an employee of the Eastbank Consolidated Special Services Fire Protection District subject to approval by the parish governing authority and the parish president.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 213, §1; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 19, §1; Acts 2008, No. 275, §1, eff. June 16, 2008; Acts 2009, No. 393, §1, eff. July 7, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2536.3. Compensation of members; city of Plaquemine

RS 33:2536.3 - Compensation of members; city of Plaquemine
Notwithstanding any provision of this Part to the contrary, in the city of Plaquemine, members of the civil service board of the city may receive from funds available to the board a per diem for attendance at meetings of the board for a maximum of twenty-four days per year in amounts not to exceed the following:
(1) Fifty dollars for the chairman of the board.
(2) Twenty-five dollars for all other members.
Acts 1997, No. 438, §1; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 20, §1, eff. June 12, 2011.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2538. Rules

RS 33:2538 - Rules
Each board may adopt and execute rules, regulations and orders necessary or desirable effectively to carry out the provisions of this Part, and shall do so when expressly required by this Part. No rule, regulation or order shall be contrary to or in violation of any provisions, purpose or intent of this Section or contrary to any other provisions of law. The board may amend or repeal any rule or part thereof in the same manner provided herein for the adoption of the rule.
A board may adopt any rule, either in its proposed or revised form, after holding a public hearing at which any officer or employee of the government of which the fire or police service is a part, and any private citizen and the state examiner shall be given an opportunity to show cause why the proposed rule or amendment, or any part thereof, should not be adopted. Before the board holds this public hearing, it shall furnish at least thirty days notice in advance of the date, time and place therefor to the mayor, commissioner of public safety, and any other municipal commissioner whom the rule may in any way affect, or the parish governing authority or fire protection district governing authority having jurisdiction over the fire or police service, and to the chief and each station of the departmental services to be affected by the adoption of any such rule, and to the state examiner. A copy of all proposed rules to be discussed at any hearing shall be furnished with all notices. Each notice and copy of proposed rule furnished the various stations of the fire and police departments shall be posted upon the bulletin board of each station for a period of at least thirty days in advance of the hearing.
Within thirty days after the board has adopted any rule, whether it is a new rule, an amendment of an existing rule, or an abolition in whole or part thereof, it shall furnish an official copy thereof to all persons and places set forth above.
Rules adopted under the authority of this Part shall have the force and effect of law.
Acts 1964, No. 282, §1. Amended by Acts 1965, No. 146, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 33 - Municipalities and Parishes › §33:2539. State examiner and deputy state examiner

RS 33:2539 - State examiner and deputy state examiner
A. The state examiner of municipal fire and police civil service and the deputy state examiner created and provided for by R.S. 33:2479 shall serve the municipal civil service for firemen and policemen provided by this Part and shall perform the same functions with regard to municipal, parish, and fire protection district civil service for firemen and policemen as provided in this Part as they are required to perform under the provisions thereof. The state examiner shall:
(1) Assist the various boards in an advisory capacity in the discharge of their duties.
(2) Prepare and submit a classification plan to each board for its approval, after consultation with the appointing and departmental authorities of the departmental service for which a plan is prepared and submitted, as provided in R.S. 33:2543.
(3) Prepare and administer tests of fitness for original entrance and promotion to applicants for positions in the respective classified services of the municipalities, parishes, and fire protection districts; score the tests and furnish the results to the board for which the tests are given.
(4) Cooperate with the secretary of each board in maintaining a roster of all fire and police civil service employees in which shall be set forth the name of each employee, the class title of position held, the salary or other compensation, any change in class title, and any other necessary data.
(5) Assist and cooperate in an advisory manner with the various appointing authorities, departments, officers and the classified employees of the municipalities, parishes, and fire protection districts regarding the duties and obligations imposed upon them by the provisions of this Part.
(6) Encourage employee training in the classified service and, when possible, attend the training courses or parts thereof.
(7) Make annual or biennial reports regarding the work of his office to the governor.
B. The state examiner may delegate to the deputy state examiner such of the above duties as he may deem expedient.
Acts 1964, No. 282, §1. Amended by Acts 1965, No. 146, §1; Acts 1999, No. 456, §1.