HomeMy WebLinkAbout02655 ORD - 12/06/1949AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE CREATING AMID RECREATING
POSITIONS, CLASS_S, CLASSIFICATIONS
AND SALARIES PAYABIE TO THE HOLDERS
OF SUCH POSFTIONS IN THE POLICE
DIVISION OF THE DEPARVIENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI;
ABOLISHING ALL POSITIONS, CLASSIFI-
CATIONS AMID SALARIES OR SALARY RANGES
IN CONFLICT HEREWITH HERETOFORE EXIST -
ING IN SUCH DIVISION; CONTAINING A
REPEALING CLAUSE; AND DECLARIIdG AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CI'T'Y OF CORPUS
CHRISTI:
Section 1: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances
creating, changing or increasing positions, classifications and
salaries or salary ranges in the Police Division of the City
of Corpus Christi be and the same are hereby merged in this ordi-
nance so that all positions, classifications and salaries or salary
ranges in conflict herewith are hereby expressly abolished and the
following positions, classes, classifications and salaries are here-
by created and recreated in said division, so that hereafter the
following and none other shall exist therein:
CLASS A
UNIEOFSED AND DETECTIVE CLASS - POLICE SERVICE
Number of Classification Salary
Positions (Class Title) Per Month
Min. Max.
U -.l
GRADE 1
1 15
Patrolman
4225.00
(Probationary)
CHAIR -.2
30 40
Patrolman
0231.25
15 20
Patrolman (Motorcycle)
U31.25
6 7
Patrolman (Accident Prevention
$231.25
and Investigation)
0 1
Patrolmen (Court Baliff)
$231.25
2 3-1
Patrolman (Desk Officer)
0231.25
0 1
Patrolman (Warrant Officer)
$231.25
0 1
Patrolman (Bicycle Registrar)
$231.25
1 2
Patrolman (Juvenile Officer)
$231.25
0 1
Policewoman
$231.25
S 22
*Patrolman (Detective)
4231.25
U -.l
Number of
Classification
Salary
Positions
(Glass Title)
Per Month
Min. Max -.
-
2 5
GRADE �
Sergeant (Patrol)
$243.75
0 1
Sergeant (Motorcycle)
$243.75
0 1
Sergeant (Accident Prevention and
$243.75
Investigation)
0 1
Sergeant (Desk)
$243.75
0 1
Sergeant (Warrant Officer)
$243.75
0 1
*Sergeant (Detective)
$243.75
1 5
GRADE
Lieutenant (Police)
y261.25
0 1
Lieutenant (Vice Squad)
$261.25
0 1
*Lieutenant (Detective)
$261.25
2 4
GRAM 5
Captain
$286.25
GRADE 6
0 1
Assistant Chief of Police
$306.25
GRADE 7
1
Chief of Police (Non - classified)
$468.75
CLASS B
TECHNICAL CLASS - POLICE SERVICE
GRADE 2
1 3
Identification Officer (Patrolman)
$231.25
0 1
Gunnery Officer (Patrolmen)
$231.25
0 1
Meter Mechanic (Patrolman)
$231.25
0 1
Radio Technician (Patrolman)
- $231.25
GRAM
1 Superintendent (Bureau of Identification $261.25
and Records)
CLASS C
COMMICATIONS CLASS - POLICE SERVICE
GRADE 2
4 6 Dispatcher (Patrolman) 0231.25
GRADE 4
0 1 Lieutenant $261.25
*All officers assigned to duty in the Detective Division
where no uniform allowance is being paid shall receive $10.00 .
Per month clothing allowance in addition to their base pay.
Section 2. LItdITDD SERVICE CLASS: In addition to the
above, there shall be a limited service classification which shall
also include Special and Reserve service.
The limited service classification shall be utilized
when an Officer becomes physically unable to perform his duties
on a full. -time basis, and yet is capable of rendering service at
a reduced number of hours until such time as he is eligible for
retirement. Any Officer placed on limited service shall be raid
on an hourly rate according to his total salary, which includes
base pay, aiy merit pay which he may have earned and his longevity
pay. Said Officer shall be subject to call for Special and Reserve
duty when necessary.
No Limited Service Officer shall work, or be carried on
the payroll for, less than one thousand (1,000) hours per year in
order that he may retain his eligibility to participate in the
Police retirement plan.
It shall be the responsibility of the Chief of Police to
assign to such disabled Officers duties which their physical con-
dition will allow them to perform, in keeping with their rank.
Section 3. The number of positions in each classifica-
tion and eacli grade thereof shall be determined by the City Manager
as may be necessary for efficient operation of the Division; sub-
ject, however, to the lirdtation provided by the current budget.
Section 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in
direct conflict herewith are hereby expressly repealed to the ex-
tent of such conflict only.
Section 5. The necessity for complying with the require-
ments of the State law regarding classification of employees in the
Police Division in adopting such classification immediately creates
a public emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the
suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall
be passed finally on the date it is introduced and that such
ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings
of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such
public emergency and imperative necessity exist, and having
reouested that such Charter rule be suspended, and that this
ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and
take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its
passage, IT IS ACCOF:Dl..dG,Y SO OFDAILED.
PASo3D Afa,i APfi',OVSD this day of Decemher, A.D. 1949.
A11UT:
City Secretary
APP:R.OVFD AS TO ;LGAL FOEd:
City Atto ey
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
Corpus Christi, Texas
December J,�, 1949
TO THE 11,7AMERS Or TIM CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of
the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative
necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or re-
euirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be 1<ssed final-
ly on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinnce or
resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council;
I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter rule
or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it
is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
�. A
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
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Leslie Wasserman
0
Jack DeForrest((]]
Barney Cott
I.CN,CJ
Sidney E. Herndon
U
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was
passsed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
U
Barney Cott
U
Sidney E. Herndon
lit
George L. Lowman
A