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95.764 Conduct of examinations - Notice -- Certification of eligible list -- Appointment from list -- Rules and regulations -- Compensation of commissioners.

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95.764 Conduct of examinations - Notice -- Certification of eligible list -- Appointment from list -- Rules and regulations -- Compensation of <br>commissioners. The civil service commission shall conduct an examination of persons for appointment as <br>members of the police and fire departments each time a vacancy shall occur in said <br>departments. The mayor shall notify the commissioners each time a vacancy occurs in <br>either of said departments and the commissioners shall within the two (2) weeks <br>following the receipt of such notice hold an examination for persons seeking appointment <br>to such vacancy after giving notice by publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424. Within <br>one (1) week following the holding of said examination, said commissioners shall certify <br>to the legislative body the names of the three (3) persons receiving the highest grades. <br>The legislative body may appoint any one (1) of said three (3) persons to said department. <br>In the event a vacancy thereafter occurs in said department, or additions thereto of regular <br>or substitute policemen or firefighters are made, within one (1) year following the <br>certification of said names, the legislative body shall fill said vacancy or make such <br>additions from the list of names certified. The commissioners shall make all rules and <br>regulations for the proper conduct of their office. The civil service commissioners shall <br>receive a salary each of one dollar (&#36;1) per annum, paid out of the city's general fund, and <br>for their services and the expense of holding any one (1) examination by the <br>commissioners after due notice by the mayor has been given to the chairman of the said <br>commission that a vacancy occurs in either of said departments and after the eligible list <br>has been exhausted, shall be paid by the legislative body out of the city's general fund, not <br>to exceed ten dollars (&#36;10). Effective: June 17, 1978 <br>History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 164, sec. 35, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 88. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 9, sec. 5.