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HB 200 Original 2017 Regular Session Falconer
Abstract: Provides relative to the appointment of the personnel director for the Municipal Police
Employees Civil Service.
Present law (Act No. 164 of the 1984 R.S.) creates and provides for the Municipal Police Employees
Civil Service in the city of Mandeville. Provides that classified civil service shall embrace all
positions of employment and all officers and employees. Present law creates and provides for a
Municipal Police Employees Civil Service Board of the city of Mandeville for the purpose of
administering the classified civil service system created pursuant to present law.
Proposed law retains present law.
Present law authorizes the board, subject to the approval of the municipal governing authority, to
appoint and employ a personnel director who is a member of the classified civil service system and
is responsible to the board for the administration of the system. Provides relative to the qualifications
and compensation of the personnel director. Further authorizes the board, in lieu of appointing a
personnel director, to assume all the powers and duties of the personnel director.
Proposed law removes present law and instead provides that the human resources director for the
classified civil service system established by the home rule charter for the city of Mandeville shall
be the personnel director for the classified civil service system established by present law.
Effective on the first day of Jan. following an election at which a majority of the voters of the city
of Mandeville approve an amendment to the city's home rule charter to provide that the human
resources director of the classified civil service system established by the charter shall be the
personnel director of the classified civil service system established by present law.
(Amends ยง3 of Act No. 164 of 1984 R.S.)