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ACT NO. 399
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House Bill No. 652.
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By: Mr. Caffery.
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AN ACT
To create and establish a system of Classified Civil Service for and with respect
to certain municipal government employees of the City of New Iberia, Louisiana, including
the fire department and police department; to create and establish a civil service
board to administer the system of Classified Civil Service for said municipal government
employees; to provide for the selection, appointment and removal of the members of
such Board, and to define and prescribe the duties, powers, and authority of the Board;
to provide for and to authorize the establishment of rules by the Board for Personnel
Administration in the Classified Service; to create and establish the position of
a Director of Personnel and to provide for the selection of the incumbent thereof
and for his removal for cause; to define the duties of the Director and fix his compensation;
to define the classified service and the unclassified service; to require and provide
for the classifying of positions in the classified service; to determine the status
of existing employees; to prescribe the method of filling vacancies; to provide for
the reduction or increase in personnel and for the regulation of the appointment,
promotion, transfer, demotion, reinstatement, layoff, removal, reemployment, and discipline
of the officers and employees in the classified service; to provide and establish
a pay plan, sick leave, vacation leave and special leaves; to provide for appeals
by employees in the classified service to the Board; to provide the manner of conducting
hearings or investigations by the Board; to provide a method of appeal from any decision
of the Board and to confer jurisdiction upon the state courts for that purpose; to
provide for the production of evidence and attendance of witnesses at hearings on
investigations held by the said Board; to prohibit political activities by employees
in the classified service; to provide certain necessary exceptions from this Act;
to define the violation of any provision of this Act or of the rules lawfully adopted
pursuant thereto as a misdemeanor and provide a penalty for the violation thereof;
to provide necessary funds by appropriations for the functioning of the Board, for
the salary and actual expenses of the Director and for the operation of his office
in administering this Act; and to repeal all laws or parts of laws in conflict or
inconsistent herewith. Whereas, proper notice of intention to apply for passage of
this Act has been published according to law, and evidence of such publication has
been exhibited in the REGISTER, as required by Article IV, Section 6, of the Constitution of 1921 of the State of Louisiana;
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
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