Pennsylvania Act 1929-77 — POLICE AND FIREMEN, CLASSIFIED-FOR SALARIES

Act text

AN ACT

Classifying patrolmen, police operators, firemen, fire alarm operators, and officers of the police and fire departments in second class cities for the payment of salaries or compensation, providing an election to ascertain the will of the electors as to the minimum salaries or compensation for such employes.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter, for the purpose of fixing their salary or compensation, the patrolmen, police operators, firemen, fire alarm operators, and other officers of the police and fire departments, employed by cities of the second class, shall be divided in classes and officers as follows:

Patrolmen, hosemen, and laddermen shall be divided into seven classes as follows:

The first class shall include all those serving in their first year.

The second class shall include all those serving in their second year.

The third class shall include all those serving in their third year.

The fourth class shall include all those serving in their fourth year.

The fifth class shall include all those serving in their fifth year.

The sixth class shall include all those serving in their sixth year.

The seventh class shall include all those serving in their seventh year or longer.

The officers of the police department shall be divided and classified as follows:

Superintendent, assistant superintendent, inspectors, sergeants, lieutenants, detectives, captains, and police operators.

The officers of the fire department shall be divided and classified as follows:

Chief deputy, chief battalion chiefs, training school instructors, captains, pumpmen, drivers, chiefs' aides, chief fire alarm operator, and fire alarm operators.

Section 2. In order that the corporate authorities of the several cities of the second class may ascertain the will of the electors of such city, as to the minimum salary or compensation to be paid to patrolmen, police operators, firemen, fire alarm operators, and other officers of the police and fire departments in cities of the second class, there shall be submitted to the electors of each city of the second class at the primary election in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine the following question:

"Do you favor the payment to patrolmen, police operators, firemen, and fire alarm operators and other officers of the police and fire departments of the city of ..... of annual salaries or compensation as follows:"

Such question shall be printed on a separate ballot prepared by the county commissioners in the manner provided by law for the preparation of official ballots and one such ballot shall be given by the election officer to each voter who votes at the primary election in each such city in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. The election officers shall make return of the votes cast on such question to the county commissioners, who shall compute such votes and make a certificate showing the number of votes for and against said question, which certificate shall be forwarded to the president of the council of such city. The expenses of any such election shall be paid by the city.

The vote taken at such election shall be advisory only and shall not in any way interfere with the right of the corporate authorities of any such city to fix the compensation of patrolmen, police operators, firemen, and fire alarm operators, and other officers of the police and fire departments of the city.