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(e) Immoral or indecent behavior.

(f) Drinking intoxicating liquors or beverages while on
active duty either in uniform or plain clothes.

(h) Absent without leave.

(i) Sleeping on duty.

(j) Absent from beat without proper excuse.

(k) Ignorance of rules or orders.

(1) Neglect to pay any just debt contracted after appoint-
ment.

(m) Disclosing any proposed action or movement in the
Department.

(n) Asking or accepting a bribe for performance of duty.
(o) Unnecessary use of revolver or club.

(p) Or any other wilful or flagrant violation of rules
and regulations of the Police Department.

(q) Any conduct prejudicial to the best interests of the
Police Department.

The Chief of Police and/or the Mayor may suspend a
policeman for a period not in excess of fifteen (15) days
for any cause above set out as a reason for suspension.
Such suspension shall take effect immediately, but the police-
man suspended shall, in cases of suspension for more than
seven (7) days, have the right of appeal to the Commission,
providing that said appeal be taken within seven days from
the day of suspension. In cases of suspension for seven (7)
days or less, there shall be no appeal from such order of sus-
pension, but in the event that any policeman shall have been
suspended three times during any consecutive twelve months
period then the Commission shall automatically consider the
record of the policeman after the termination of the third
suspension and the Commission shall be empowered to take
such action as it shall deem proper, including (but not by
way of limitation) the right to suspend or discharge or place
the policeman on probation.

In all cases where appeal is made to the Commission, the
Commissioners may rescind, annul, change or modify the
order of suspension of the Chief of Police or the Mayor or
both.

In all cases where the Commission has heard and decided a
case, on the record of the policeman as the above provided,
there shall be an appeal allowed for the accused to be heard