HomeMy WebLinkAbout2917 An Ordinance amending Ordinance
No. 1813 to provide for the over-
time of certain members of the police
department who appear as witnesses in
municipal court and declaring an emergency.
SECTION : That Section 2 of Ordinance
No. 1813 is amended to read as follows: ~ ~ r
Sec. 1. Employees of the police and fire departments shall
work such shifts as may be assigned by the Commissioner of Public
Health and Safety, subject to any initiative ordinance which may apply
and shall be subject to call in any emergency while off duty. No
overtime or holiday pay shall be allowed such employees except that
members of the police department below the rank of captain shall
receive overtime pay of 1 and 1/2 times their regular hourly wage
for actual time spent as witnesses in municipal court during non-
duty hours or regular days off.
SECTION 2: That Section 4 of Ordinance
No. 1813 is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 4. As used in this ordinance "overtime'' shall mean any
time worked by any employee, except supervisory employees and
policemen subject to Section 2 of Ordinance No. 1813 and firemen
at the request of proper authority over his regular assignment
in any one day or on his regular days off. It shall include
work performed on holidays, except as provided in Section 3 of
Ordinance No. 1813. It shall also include time worked by an
employee outside of his regular/'weekly work schedule who has been
called back from vacation in an emergency for such work. The
shortening of time off between work weeks due to changes in work
schedules shall not be considered overtime.
SECTION 3: That an emergency exists
affecting the public peace, health, safety and welfar~ of the
citizens of the City .of Bremerton, and this Ordinance shall take
effect i~ediately fo~llowing passage and publication.
PASSED unanimously on first reading by
the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed by the Mayor
and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage
this-~z~h day of October, 1970.
GLENN K. JARSTAD, Mayor
ATTEST:
G. C.0~EADON, SR., City Clerk