Archived Bill Info

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An act creating a board of police and fire commissioners in cities of the first class and prescribing the powers and duties of such boards conforming upon such board exclusive powers to prescribe and conduct examinations of candidate for appointment to office and employment in the bureau of police and fire in such cities and to certify eligible therefrom constituting such commissioners a board of inquiry and trial for such police and fire bureaus with power to fix the punishment of persons convicted of charges requiring the director of the department of public safety to impose such punishment requiring such boards to enforce the laws of the Commonwealth prohibiting and restraining political activity upon the part of officers and employes of such bureaus and other laws providing the method of payment of the salaries of the commissioners and the employes of the board and the expense of maintenance.

0711 Pink

Referred to the Committee on Municipal Corporations, March 4.