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(b) Wilful disobedience of rules or orders.

(c) Any act of cruelty, tyranny or oppression toward a
civilian or any other officer.

(d) Conduct unbecoming an officer.

(e) Immoral or indecent behavior.

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

(g) Visiting gambling house or house of ill fame not in
the course of his duty.

(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 of the
department.

(n) Asking or accepting a bribe in the performance of
duty, or otherwise.

(o) Unnecessary use of revolver or club.

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

195. All policemen appointed under the provisions of
this charter shall hold their respective offices, unless dis-
charged, retired, or otherwise incapable of serving, until
they become sixty-five years old, when they shall be re-
tired [; provided, however, that any such officer who has
become sixty-five years old shall be eligible for appointment
to the position of desk sergeant, which position he may hold
until he becomes seventy years old, at which time he shall
be retired. ].

No person shall be eligible for appointment as policeman
except residents of the City of Frederick and Frederick
County, between the ages of twenty-three and forty-five
years, inclusive, who have been recommended by the
police commissioners for the City of Frederick and those
who were active members of the police force at the time
of their appointment on December 13, 1940.