A. 
This residency requirement shall apply to each and every person first employed by the city on or after July 1, 2002. Any person employed by the city on or after such date shall be a resident of the city as of the date of employment. During the entire period of employment, such person shall remain a resident of the city.
B. 
For the purposes of this article, "employee" means any person receiving moneys from the city subject to withholding taxes by the state or federal government except consultants retained by the city for specific purposes.
(Prior revision § 2-6.2 (part); C.O. 81-37 (part); C.O. 02-41 § 1)
A. 
At anytime, the mayor, a member of the city council or any resident of Revere may file with the city clerk a written challenge to the residency of any person subject to this article. Within ten days of receipt of such notice, the city clerk shall notify the challenged employee of the receipt of said notice. The challenged employee shall have ten days from the date of said notice to provide the city clerk with a certificate signed under the penalties of perjury stating his or her name and place of residency.
B. 
Upon receipt of a certificate indicating a place of residence not within the city, or if no such certificate is filed, the department head or like officer shall forthwith strike the name of the employee from the payroll, that person shall cease to be employed by the city, and the department head or like officer shall give notice of the action to the city clerk who shall transmit the same to the city council, the mayor and the treasurer. No person so stricken from a payroll shall be reemployed by the city for a period of one year following the cessation of his or her employment.
C. 
If the mayor or any member of the city council is not satisfied with the certificate provided as required in subsection A of this section, he or she may file with the city clerk, within ten days after submission of such certificate, a written objection to the residency of the challenged employee. Upon the filing of such written objection, the city council shall hold a hearing on the challenged employee's residency within thirty days of the written objection. The procedures applicable to such hearing shall be determined solely by the city council. Following such hearing, the city council shall determine the residency of challenged employee by majority vote of the city council. If the city council determines that said employee is not a resident of Revere, then such person shall be forthwith stricken from the payroll in accordance with the provisions of subsection B of this section.
D. 
In the absence of a written challenge to the residency of any employee, or, if challenged, the absence of an objection to the filing of a certificate of residency with the city clerk by such employee, each employee subject to this section shall be presumed to be a resident of the city.
(Prior revision § 2-6.2 (part); C.O. 81-37 (part); C.O. 02-41 §§ 2, 3)
Employees of the city who are residents of the city, as defined in this article, whose employment with the city is terminated due to statutorily mandated labor-force reductions and tax-levy reductions shall be given first preference for reemployment with the city within their job classification when a city position becomes available.
(Prior revision § 2-6.2 (part); C.O. 81-37 (part))
Any person acting in behalf of the city who makes payment of wages to any person stricken from a payroll under the provisions of this article, within one year of the date of striking, and any person accepting such payment, shall be punished by a fine of two dollars for each dollar so paid or accepted.
(Prior revision § 2-6.2 (part); C.O. 81-37 (part))
To the extent permitted by Chapter 31 of the General Laws, every examination held to establish a civil service list for employment by the city shall be restricted to city residents.
(Prior revision § 2-6.2 (part); C.O. 81-37 (part))
A. 
In the event that this article is deemed to be in conflict with a provision of any general or special law, the provision of that general or special law shall govern and shall not defeat the application of this article with respect to any position not governed by that law.
B. 
In the event that the mayor, with the approval of the city council, determines it to be in the best interest of the public to do so, the provisions of this article may be waived with respect to a particular person or position, and such waiver shall not act to defeat the application of this article to every other person or position. In order to obtain a waiver, the mayor must provide the city council with a separate written request for such waiver, including with such request a reason or reasons why such waiver is in the best interests of the public. The city council may grant such waiver by majority vote of the city council. Any waiver from the requirements of this article shall be effective only upon affirmative vote by the city council. All such waivers shall remain on file with the city clerk.
(Prior revision § 2-6.2 (part); C.O. 81-37 (part); C.O. 02-41 § 4)
A. 
In construing this article, "residence" means the actual principal residence of the individual, where he or she normally eats and sleeps and maintains his or her normal personal household effects.
B. 
This article shall be deemed to affect both civil service and non-civil service employees of the city.
(Prior revision § 2-6.2 (part); C.O. 81-37 (part))