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File #: 120540    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 5/31/2012 In control: Committee on Law and Government
On agenda: Final action: 6/28/2012
Title: Proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to provide for a preference in civil service regulations for the grandchildren of firefighters or police officers who were killed or who died in the line of duty, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
Sponsors: Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Johnson
Indexes: CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS, PHILADELPHIA HOME RULE CHARTER
Attachments: 1. Signature12054000.pdf
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Proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to provide for a preference in civil service regulations for the grandchildren of firefighters or police officers who were killed or who died in the line of duty, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
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      WHEREAS, Under Section 6 of the First Class City Home Rule Act (53 P.S. ¤ 13106), an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter may be proposed by a resolution of the Council of the City of Philadelphia adopted with the concurrence of two-thirds of its elected members; now therefore
 
      RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the following amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter is hereby proposed and shall be submitted to the electors of the City on an election date designated by ordinance:
 
Bold italics indicates matter added by these amendments.
ARTICLE VII EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH - 
POWERS AND DUTIES
 
Personnel Director and Civil Service Commission and the Civil Service
 
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CHAPTER 4 CIVIL SERVICE: REGULATIONS
 
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¤7-401. Contents.
 
The regulations shall provide for:
 
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(d)      The granting, as may from time to time be required by statute or ordinance, of preference in entrance examinations to qualified persons who have been members of the armed forces of the United States, and to the children and grandchildren of Philadelphia firefighters or police officers who were killed or who died in the line of duty;
 
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