Title 2 - Administration and Personnel

2.66 Police Department

Article III. Hiring

2.66.1300 Removal from Eligibility List.

Any person listed on a current eligibility list who receives disciplinary action during the period their name is on the eligibility list may be removed from the eligibility list by the Chief of Police. Persons may also be removed from the eligibility list for any valid and documented reason that pertains to their inability to function within the rank to which they may be promoted. If an eligible person on the list declines promotion, that person's name will be removed from the eligibility list. Persons whose names are involuntarily removed from the eligibility list may appeal the action to the Civil Service Commission. The name of any person eligible for a probationary promotion, who declines such promotion, shall be stricken from the eligibility list unless such declination is made for:

  1. A.
    Temporary inability, physical or otherwise, the evidence of which must be acceptable to and approved by the Civil Service Commission and set forth in its minutes;
  2. B.
    Where the appointment is to be for a temporary period only.

In such events, eligible candidates for promotion shall not lose his or her position upon the eligibility list by reason of declining promotion.

(History: Ord. CSC-1983 §31, 96) [Source or prior law: 2.66.640]

Effective on: 1/1/1901