25-14 Amend 144.03 Qualifications for Applicants for Fire Dept.

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144.03 QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPLICANTS FOR FIRE DEPART- MENT. (a) All applicants for entry level uniformed positions for Fire must be at least twenty-one-(21) years of age at the time of appointment, and no person shall be eligible to receive an original appointment on and/or after the person's thirty fli st (3 41 ") birthday. (b) Subsection (a) hereof is specifically intended to supersede State Code pro- visions on the age of applicants for appointment to positions in the Fire De- partment. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such for- mal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 3. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the City and for the usual daily operation of the City for the reasons set forth and defined in its preamble, and provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five members of Council this ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately, or otherwise shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law. Adopted: Approved: Zv/% Presid t