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Chapter 420
Section 420.10
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420.10 EXAMINATIONS; EXAMINERS.
All examinations shall be impartial, fair and practical and designed only to test the relative
qualifications and fitness of applicants to discharge the duties of the particular employment
which they seek to fill. No question in any examination shall relate to the political or religious
convictions or affiliations of the applicant. All applicants for positions of trust and responsibility
shall be specially examined as to moral character, sobriety and integrity, and all applicants for
positions requiring special experience, skill or faithfulness shall be specially examined in respect
to those qualities. It shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department and of every employee
to act as an examiner or assistant examiner, at the request of the commission, without special
compensation therefor. Examinations shall be conducted and examination papers scored by some
experienced and competent person who is not a resident of the city where the examinations are
being held, when by resolution or motion it is so ordered by the council of such city.
History: (1933-33) 1929 c 57 s 11; 1945 c 197 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
All examinations shall be impartial, fair and practical and designed only to test the relative
qualifications and fitness of applicants to discharge the duties of the particular employment
which they seek to fill. No question in any examination shall relate to the political or religious
convictions or affiliations of the applicant. All applicants for positions of trust and responsibility
shall be specially examined as to moral character, sobriety and integrity, and all applicants for
positions requiring special experience, skill or faithfulness shall be specially examined in respect
to those qualities. It shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department and of every employee
to act as an examiner or assistant examiner, at the request of the commission, without special
compensation therefor. Examinations shall be conducted and examination papers scored by some
experienced and competent person who is not a resident of the city where the examinations are
being held, when by resolution or motion it is so ordered by the council of such city.
History: (1933-33) 1929 c 57 s 11; 1945 c 197 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
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