[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Scranton 9-26-1979
as Ch. 13, Art. II, of the 1979 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
There shall be compulsory retirement of each regular and reserve fireman
in the service of the Bureau of Fire, Department of Public Safety, who shall
have reached the age of sixty-five (65) years.
[Amended by Ord. No. 10-1980]
A.
If for any reasons of economy or lack of funds it becomes
necessary for the city to reduce the number of employees of its Bureau of
Fire, then the city shall follow the following procedure:
(1)
If there are any employees in the Bureau of Fire who
have reached the age of sixty-five (65) and are eligible for retirement under
the terms of the Fire Pension Fund of the city then such reduction in number
shall be made by retirement on pension of all the oldest in age.
(2)
If the number of employees in the Bureau of Fire who
have reached the age of sixty-five (65) and are eligible for retirement under
the terms of the Fire Pension Fund of the city is insufficient to effect the
reduction in number desired by the city, then the reduction shall be effective
by suspending the last person or persons, starting with probationers, that
have been appointed. Such removal shall be accomplished by suspending in numerical
order, commencing with the last person appointed, all recent appointees until
such reduction has been accomplished.
B.
Whenever the number of employees in the
Bureau of Fire shall be again increased in number, or if any vacancies may
occur, the employees suspended under the terms of this section shall be reinstated
to their former class, before any new appointees are appointed, in the reverse
order of which they were suspended.
