[1]
Editor's Note: For related provisions, see Ch. 103, Personnel Policies.
[Amended 7-11-1991 by Ord. No. MC-2670; 4-28-2010 by Ord. No. MC-4535]
A. 
The proper officials of the City are hereby authorized and directed to assist, prepare records for and provide for group hospital service, medical, prescription and surgical insurance, covering all full-time employees of the City, members of City Council, the Attorney to City Council, Municipal Judges, part-time and full-time, and the Municipal Personnel Defender, their husbands or wives, and all dependent children under the age of 23. Effective December 1, 2010, pursuant to federal law, all dependent children of full-time employees of the City under the age of 26 who qualify for health-care benefits under this federal law will be eligible.
B. 
Commencing May 24, 2010, all employees identified in Subsection A above who receive health benefits from the City pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:10-17.1 shall contribute 1.5% of base salary, pursuant to P.L. 2010, c. 2, for such health-care benefits, through withholding from pay, salary or other compensation, notwithstanding any other amount that may be required additionally for such health benefit coverage in the Summary Plan Description and/or any collective bargaining agreement.
C. 
Effective May 24, 2010, the City of Camden will no longer make opt-out incentive payments to any employees, including current employees, retired employees and employees on a disability pension (uniformed or nonuniformed), who waive any health-care benefits coverage pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:10-17.1, notwithstanding any other provision in the Camden Code and/or collective bargaining agreement to the contrary.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 5-101, Retirement age, which previously preceded this section, was repealed 7-11-1991 by Ord. No. MC-2670.
[Amended 7-23-1981 by Ord. No. MC-1760; 2-24-1994 by Ord. No. MC-2978; 2-26-1998 by Ord. No. MC-3369]
A. 
Any person who shall hereinafter become officers or employees of the City, whether appointed through statute or ordinance, or shall assume any employment of whatsoever nature are hereby required, as a condition of their continued employment, to have their place of abode in the City and to be bona fide residents thereof, except as otherwise provided by this section. All officers and employees of the City who are presently employed by the City and presently maintain a bona fide residence within the City are also hereby required, as a condition of their continued employment, to have a place of abode in the City of Camden and to be bona fide residents therein, except as otherwise provided by this section.
B. 
As used in this section, a "bona fide resident" is a person having a permanent domicile within the City of Camden and one which has not been adopted with the intention of again taking up or claiming a previous residence acquired outside of the City limits.
C. 
The Mayor or Business Administrator is hereby authorized, in his/her discretion, for good cause shown, to permit any officer or employee of the City to remain in the employ of the City without complying with the provisions hereof, where:
(1) 
The officer or employee is exempted by regulation or statute of the State of New Jersey.
(2) 
The officer or employee is engaged in professional services. "Professional services" means services rendered or performed by a person authorized by law to practice a recognized profession, whose practice is regulated by law, and the performance of which services requires knowledge of an advanced type in a field of learning acquired by a prolonged formal course of specialized instruction and study as distinguished from general academic instruction or apprenticeship and training. "Professional services" may also mean services rendered in the performance of work that is original and creative in character in a recognized field of artistic endeavor.
D. 
Failure of any officer or employee to comply with this section shall be cause for his/her removal or discharge from service with the City of Camden.
E. 
The Business Administrator, or his designated representative, is hereby directed to require all officers and employees of the City of Camden to execute affidavits indicating their residence and the residence of their wife and children and/or furnish such information as may be necessary or proper to carry out the provisions of this section. The Business Administrator is directed that said affidavits shall be executed on a yearly basis.
F. 
Any person who is to be employed by the City of Camden shall be required to execute an affidavit setting forth the information required in Subsection E, supra.
G. 
Any person, officer or employee who presently resides outside the jurisdictional limits of the City of Camden shall be exempt from maintaining a permanent domicile within the City of Camden.
H. 
In the future event that any person shall qualify for employment who is not presently a bona fide resident of the City of Camden, then such person or employee shall be required to execute an affidavit stating that he/she shall obtain or acquire bona fide residence, as defined herein, within 180 days of the date of employment. The execution of said affidavit and compliance with the terms stated herein are a condition to employment, and the failure of any officer or employee to comply with the requirements of this section shall be deemed to be cause for not hiring said person or cause for his/her removal or discharge from City service.
I. 
Candidates for police officer, positions.
[Amended 7-28-2009 by Ord. No. MC-4487; 9-22-2009 by Ord. No. MC-4499]
(1) 
Classification of qualified applicants for police officer positions. All qualified applicants for the position of City of Camden police officer shall be classified by class as follows:
(a) 
Class I: residents of the City of Camden.
(b) 
Class II: other residents of Camden County.
(c) 
Class III: other residents of the State of New Jersey.
(d) 
Class IV: all other qualified applicants.
(2) 
Order of appointment for police officer positions. Qualified Class I applicants shall be appointed first, and then those in each succeeding class shall be appointed to any vacancy or vacancies remaining after all qualified applicants in the preceding class or classes have been appointed or have declined an offer of employment. Within each classification, duly qualified applicants who are veterans shall be accorded all such veterans' preferences as are provided by law.
(3) 
Residency determination for police officer positions. Residency shall be determined as of the announced closing date of the civil service examination and must be maintained continuously up to and including the date of appointment to the position of police officer. For purposes of this section, "resident" means a person having, within the territorial limits of the City of Camden, a place of abode which has not been adopted for any mere special or temporary purpose but is the person's ordinary and permanent domicile.
J. 
Candidates for firefighter positions.
[Added 9-22-2009 by Ord. No. MC-4499]
(1) 
Appointees to firefighter positions must be residents of Camden City.
(2) 
Candidates for open competitive examinations must be residents of Camden City as of the announced closing date of the examination.
(3) 
Such candidates must maintain continuous residency in Camden City from the announced closing date up to and including the date of appointment.