PRINTER's NO. 2069
No. 1665 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. MELTON AND BARBER, NOVEMBER 11, 1971
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, NOVEMBER 29, 1971
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 27, 1939 (P.L.1207), entitled, as
2 amended, "An act regulating the appointment, promotion,
3 suspension, reduction, removal, and reinstatement of employes
4 (except chiefs, and chief clerks) in bureaus of fire and fire
5 alarm operators and fire box inspectors in bureaus of
6 electricity, in cities of the second class; defining the
7 powers and duties of Civil Service Commissions for such
8 purpose in said cities; and repealing inconsistent
9 legislation," reducing certain age requirements.
10 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
11 hereby enacts as follows:
12 Section 1. Section 3, act of June 27, 1939 (P.L.1207),
13 entitled, as amended, "An act regulating the appointment,
14 promotion, suspension, reduction, removal, and reinstatement of
15 employes (except chiefs and chief clerks) in bureaus of fire and
16 fire alarm operators and fire box inspectors in bureaus of
17 electricity, in cities of the second class; defining the powers
18 and duties of Civil Service Commissions for such purpose in said
19 cities; and repealing inconsistent legislation," amended
20 November 10, 1965 (P.L.832), is amended to read:
21 Section 3. Each applicant for original appointment to a
22 position in the competitive class in any bureau of fire in any
1 city of the second class, or to the position of fire alarm
2 operator or fire alarm box inspector in any such city, shall
3 undergo a physical examination which shall be conducted by a
4 commission composed of doctors of medicine appointed for that
5 purpose by the mayor. Said commission shall certify to the Civil
6 Service Commission that the applicant is free from bodily or
7 mental defects, deformities or diseases that might incapacitate
8 him from the performance of the duties of the position he is
9 seeking. No application for such appointment shall be received
10 from any person who is under [twenty-one] eighteen years of age
11 or over thirty-five years of age at the date of his application,
12 except that an applicant for the position of fire alarm operator
13 or fire alarm box inspector in any such city, may be over
14 thirty-five years of age at the date of his application. Nor
15 shall any such application be received from any person who shall
16 not have been a bona fide resident of the city for one year next
17 preceding the date of his application: Provided, however, That
18 any applicant for reinstatement as a member of the bureau of
19 fire or as a fire alarm operator or as a fire alarm box
20 inspector of any such city in which he makes such application,
21 who shall have served previously as an employe in such bureau
22 for a period of more than six months and who, at the time of his
23 application for reinstatement shall be a resident of such city,
24 shall be eligible for such reinstatement even though such
25 applicant shall be over the age of thirty-five years.
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