1521 ORD FIXING WORKING HOURS FOR FIREMEN AND POLICEMENORI?INANCE NO. 1521
AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE WORKING HOURS FOR FIREMEN
AND POLICEMEN, PROVIDING GOMPENSATION FOR THE WORKING
HOURS OF FIR.EMEN AND POLICEMEN AND FIXING THE MAXIMUM
HOURS TO BE WORKED BY FIREMEN, EXCEPT IN CASE OF DIRE
EMERGENCY, AND BY POLICEMEN, EXCEPT IlV CASE OF DIRE
EMERGENCY, PROVIDIING FOR COMPENSATION FOR OVERTIME
DURING SUCH EMERGENCY, AND PROVIDTNG FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DA TE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PARIS, TEXAS:
Section l. That from and after the 1 st day of July, 1960, no
member of the Fire Department of the City of Paris, Texas, shaIl be
required to work in excess of seventy-two (72) hours during any one
calendar week. Provided, however, in case of dire emergency, a mem-
ber of the Fire Departrnent ma.y be required or permitted to work in
excess of seventy-two (72) hours in any one calendar week, and --in the
event of such emergency and such working in excess of seventy-two (72).-
hours per week, said member of the Fire I?epartment. shall be compen-
sated for such overtime at a rate equal to one and one-ha,lf times the
compensation paid to such fireman for regular hours.
Section 2. That no policeman of the Paris Police Department shall
be required or permitted to work in excess of forty-four (44) hours in
any one calendar week. That each policeman during his working day
shall take, on or near the middle portion of his shift, forty (40) minutes
for his lunch hour or rest hour and shall not be on duty during such
forty -minute period of time, and shall not be called to or permitted to
work during such forty-minute period. That the Chief of Police shall
stagger the lunch hours in order to keep a working force in effect.
Provided, ho~xvever, in case of an emergency, any policeman who
is called back to duty from his lunch hour, or who is required to work
in excess of forty-four (44) hours in any one calendar week, he shall be
comp ensated for such overtime at a rate equal to one and one-half times
the compensation paid to such policeman for regular hours.
Section 3, This ordinance shall take effect midnight, June 30, 1960.
Passed and adopted this 13th day of June, A. D., 1960.
ATTEST:
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Acting City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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i y Atto ney.