2056                              MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

Special Regulation 1.05. A Ranking Command Officer when used in
these rules shall mean a Lieutenant or higher in the Police [Bureau]
Department or a Battalion Chief or higher in the Fire [Bureau] Depart-
ment.

Special Regulation 1.06. Administrative Suspension when used in
these rules shall mean a suspension of an employee, placed in effect only by
the Chief of the Police [Bureau] Department or the Chief of the Fire
[Bureau] Department and predicated upon fact or facts involving an
infraction of order, regulation or directive, or a breach of discipline com-
ing to his attention subsequent to commission of the infraction.

Special Regulation 1.07. Order, Regulation and Directive when used
in these rules shall mean any Order, Regulation or Directive issued ver-
bally or in writing to members of the Police or Fire [Bureau] by the
Chief of the [Bureau] Department.

Special Regulation 2.01. Public announcement of proposed tests and
acceptance of applications for employment in the Fire and Police [Bu-
reaus] Departments shall be posted on a bulletin board easily accessible
to the general public in the Office of Personnel.

Special Regulation 2.02. Announcement of an opening or openings
in the Fire and Police [Bureaus] Departments shall be posted on the
Office of Personnel bulletin board for at least five working days prior to the
holding of the entrance examination administered by the Office of Per-
sonnel.

Special Regulation 2.03. All appointments made to the Fire and
Police [Bureaus] Departments [of the Department of Public Safety]
shall be made from qualified applicants, and all applicants for employment
in the Police [Bureau] Department must not be less than twenty-one
years of age, and shall not have reached their thirty-sixth birthday at the
time of their appointment, except as to police cadets, whose ages shall be
between eighteen and twenty-one years of age, and all applicants for
employment in the Fire [Bureau] Department must not be less than
twenty years of age and shall not have reached their thirty-sixth birthday
at the time of their appointment.

Special Regulation 2.04. All applicants for employment in the Police
and Fire [Bureaus] Departments must pass a physical examination
before a physician or physicians appointed by the [Director of Public
Safety] Chief of the respective department and approved by the Ad-
ministrative Officer. The applicant must be certified by the examining
physician or physicians as being capable of meeting the physical, medical
and mental requirements established by the [Director of Public Safety]
respective department.

Special Regulation 2.05. All applicants for appointment to the Police
and Fire [Bureaus] Departments shall be proven by investigation to be
of good reputation, character and morals.

Special Regulation 2.06. Applicants for employment in the Police
and Fire [Bureaus] Departments must pass an entrance examination
administered by the Offic