The Commission shall post in its office the eligible list containing the names and grades of those who have passed the examination.
Persons, male or female, who have served in the military or naval service of the United States during any war in which the United States has been, is now or shall hereafter be engaged, and who have honorable discharges from such service, who have successfully passed the examination shall be given the additional credit and preferences in appointment and promotion provided for by law.
Every position or employment in the police force or as paid operators of fire apparatus, except that of Chief of Police or Chief of the Fire Department, shall be filled only in the following manner: the Council shall notify the Commission of any vacancy as a police officer or fire apparatus operator which is to be filled and shall request the certification of a list of eligibles. The Commission shall certify for each existing vacancy from the eligible list the names of three persons thereon, or a lesser number where three are not available, who have received the highest average. The Council shall thereupon, with sole reference to the merits and fitness of the candidates, make an appointment from the three names certified, unless the Council makes objections to the Commission as to one or more of the persons so certified for any reason stated in § 8-33 of this chapter. Should such objections be sustained by the Commission, as provided in such section, the Commission shall thereupon strike the name of such person from the eligible list and certify the next highest name for each name so taken off. As each subsequent vacancy occurs in the same or another position, precisely the same procedure shall be followed.
[Amended 8-1-1994 by Ord. No. 1433; 5-2-2016 by Ord. No. 1615]
In the case of a vacancy in the office of the Chief of Police or Fire Chief, the Council may nominate a person or persons to the Commission. It shall become the duty of the Commission to subject such person to a noncompetitive examination, and, if such person shall be certified by the Commission as qualified, he or she may then be appointed to such a position and thereafter shall be subject to all provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 9-5-1989 by Ord. No. 1387]
A. 
All original appointments to the positions set forth below shall be for probationary periods as follows:
(1) 
Police officers: one year.
(2) 
Fire apparatus operators: six months.
B. 
If at the close of the probationary period the conduct or fitness of the probationer has not been satisfactory to the Council, the probationer shall be notified, in writing, that he or she will not receive a permanent appointment. Thereupon, his or her appointment shall cease; otherwise, his or her retention shall be equivalent to a permanent appointment.
During the probationary period, an appointee may be dismissed only for a cause specified in § 8-33 of this chapter.
Whenever there are urgent reasons for the filing of a vacancy in any position and there are no names on the eligible list for such appointment, the Council may nominate to the Commission for noncompetitive examination, and if such nominee shall be certified by the Commission as qualified after such noncompetitive examination, he or she may be appointed provisionally to fill such vacancy until a selection and appointment can be made after a competitive examination in the manner prescribed in this chapter. No such provisional appointment shall continue for a period longer than three months, nor shall a successive provisional appointment be made to the same person. It shall thereafter be the duty of the Commission to hold a competitive examination and certify the names of a list of eligibles, and a regular appointment shall then be made from the names submitted by the Commission.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the temporary appointment without examination of persons as fire apparatus operators and policemen in riot or other emergency cases.