CIVIL SERVICE STATUS OF EMPLOYEES OF SECOND CLASS CITIES
                  Act of May 12, 1939, P.L. 130, No. 62               Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Defining the civil service status of certain persons employed by
        fire departments in cities of the second class.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  All persons who were given provisional
     appointments by the fire department of any city of the second
     class, and whose services may have been temporarily interrupted
     through no fault of their own, and who, upon the effective date
     of this act, have been properly appointed to any position in the
     fire departments of such cities of the second class, shall be
     given a civil service status applicable to persons who have been
     properly appointed and continuously in service since the date
     upon which such persons were given their original provisional
     appointment, less such time as they were out of service.
        Section 2.  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith
     are hereby repealed.
        Section 3.  This act shall become effective immediately upon
     final enactment.