3597
CUMBERLAND

reenacted to read as follows:

(e) Such Commission shall, as often as the
Commission shall deem necessary, under such rules and
regulations as it may prescribe, hold examinations for
the purpose of determining the qualifications of
applicants for positions, including applicants for
positions of Chief of Police, [Assistant Chief of Police]
and Lieutenants of Police and Chief of the Fire
Department and Assistant Chief of the Fire Department,
which examinations shall be practical in their character
and shall relate to such matters as will fairly test the
fitness of the person examined to discharge the duties of
the position to which he seeks to be appointed. Such
Commission shall, as soon as possible after each such
examination, certify to the Appointing Authority the name
of ten (10) persons for each department, who, according
to its records, have the highest standing for the
positions they seek to fill, as a result of such
examinations and all vacancies, in positions under Civil
Service which shall occur before the holding of the next
examination, shall be filled from said list so certified;
provided, however, if the list for any cause shall be
reduced to less than three (3) for any division or
department, then the Commissioner of said department may
temporarily fill a vacancy until the next examination of
the Commission. The employees of the Police and Fire
Departments so appointed, shall only hold office by
virtue of such appointments until Civil Service lists can
be made up by the Civil Service Commission as provided by
this section. The present officers and employees of the
Police and Fire Department heretofore appointed under the
Civil Service regulations, shall hold their positions
unless removed or disqualified under the provisions of
this section.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the
date of the passage of this Resolution is March 6, 1973,
and the amendment to the Charter of the City of
Cumberland hereby enacted shall become effective on April
25, 1973, unless a proper Petition for a Referendum
hereon shall be filed as provided by Section 13 of
Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, and
provided a complete and exact copy of this Resolution
shall be continuously posted on the North Centre Street
entrance of the City Hall, Cumberland, Maryland, until
April 15, 1973, and provided further that a fair summary
of the proposed amendment shall be published in the
Cumberland Evening Times, a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of Cumberland, once in each of
the weeks of March 5, 12, 19, 26; April 2, 1973.