Pennsylvania Act 1941-68 — GIVING FIREMEN IN SECOND CLASS A CITIES VACATIONS

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GIVING FIREMEN IN SECOND CLASS A CITIES VACATIONS
                  Act of Jun. 18, 1941, P.L. 131, No. 68              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Requiring cities of the second class A having fire departments
        to allow members of said fire departments twenty-four
        consecutive hours of rest each week and fourteen days
        vacation with pay each year, except in emergency cases.

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

        Section 1.  All cities of the second class A having fire
     departments shall allow every member of such fire departments to
     have at least twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in every
     calendar week, exclusive of the time when the change of shifts
     occurs, except in emergency cases for the suppression of riots
     or tumults or the preservation of the public peace in times of
     war, riot, conflagration, public celebrations, and to have an
     annual vacation of not less than fourteen days without the
     diminution of the salary or compensation fixed by ordinance or
     statute.
        Section 2.  This act shall become effective immediately upon
     its final enactment.