[Adopted 1-11-1977 by Ord. No. MC 2479 (Ch. 5, Art. XXVII, of the 1981 Revised Code)]
A. 
Before any person shall be appointed as a member of the Public Safety Department as law enforcement personnel or firefighting personnel, the Director of the Public Safety Department shall classify all the duly qualified applicants for the position or positions to be filled in the respective departments, in the following classes:
[Amended 10-14-2015 by Ord. No. MC 3553]
(1) 
Class I: residents of the municipality.
(2) 
Class II: other residents of the county in which the municipality is situate.
(3) 
Class III: other residents of the state.
(4) 
Class IV: all other qualified applicants.
B. 
Within each such classification, duly qualified applicants who are veterans shall be accorded all such veterans' preferences as are provided by law. Persons discharged from the service within six months prior to making application to such municipality, who fulfill the requirements of N.J.S.A. 40A:14-10.1 and who thereby are entitled to appointment notwithstanding their failure to meet the New Jersey residency requirement at the time of their initial application, shall be placed in Class III.
[Amended 10-14-2015 by Ord. No. MC 3553]
In making such appointments, the Director of the Public Safety Department shall first appoint all those in Class I and those in each succeeding class in the order above listed and shall appoint a person or persons in any such class only to a vacancy or vacancies remaining after all qualified applicants in the preceding class or classes have been appointed or have declined an offer of appointment.
The classes of qualified applicants defined in § 105-8 shall be considered as separate and successive lists of eligibles, and the Civil Service Commission shall, when requested to certify eligibles for positions specified in this section, make such certifications from said classes separately and successively and shall certify no persons from any such class until all persons in the preceding class or classes have been appointed or have declined offers of appointment.
[Amended 10-14-2015 by Ord. No. MC 3553]
In making temporary appointments, the Director of the Public Safety Department shall utilize the classifications set forth in § 105-8 and shall classify accordingly all duly qualified applicants for the position or positions to be temporarily filled.
[Added 2-13-1985 by Ord. No. MC 2769; 10-14-2015 by Ord. No. MC 3553]
All persons appointed special law enforcement personnel shall be bona fide residents in the Township of Irvington; provided, however, that the residency requirement may be waived where the applicant for renewal of appointment as a special law enforcement personnel had been a special law enforcement personnel in the Township of Irvington and a resident of the Township of Irvington for a period of at least 10 years prior to July 1, 1984.