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95.710 Qualifications of members of police and fire departments.

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95.710 Qualifications of members of police and fire departments. To be eligible for appointment as a member of the police force or fire department of a city <br>of the fourth or fifth class, except cities of the fourth class which have adopted KRS <br>95.761 to 95.784, a person must be able to read and write the English language <br>intelligibly, and sober, moral and sagacious. In addition, a member of a police department <br>in a city of the fourth or fifth class shall be at least twenty-one (21) years of age, and a <br>member of a fire department of a city of the fourth or fifth class shall be at least eighteen <br>(18) years of age. No person who has been convicted of a felony is eligible for <br>appointment. After appointment no member shall interfere in any election. Effective: July 19, 1985 <br>History through 1968: Amended 1985 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 2, effective July 19, 1985. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 40, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- <br>Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 159, sec. 1, effective March 29, 1976. -- Amended 1968 <br>Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 73. -- Amended 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 81, sec. 1. -- Amended <br>1944 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective <br>October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3493, 3629a.