As Amended
SEC. 21-31-1. Adoption of civil service system mandated in certain municipalities.
(1) A civil service commission is hereby created in every municipality described in subsection (2) which has a full paid fire and police department.
(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall apply to:
(a) Any municipality, operating under a commission form of government, and having a population of not less than fourteen thousand (14,000), according to the federal census of 1940;
(b) Any municipality, under whatever form of government, having a population of not less than twenty-four thousand (24,000), according to the federal census of 1940, and situated in counties having a national military park;
(c) Any municipality, operating under the commission form of government, and having a population of not less than ten thousand, five hundred (10,500) nor more than eleven thousand (11,000), according to the federal census of 1950;
(d) Any municipality, having an aldermanic commission or city manager form of government, and having a population of not less than three thousand eight hundred and eighty-one (3,881) at the 1960 federal census, and situated on the Mississippi Gulf Coast;
(e) Any municipality with its corporate limits being bounded on one (1) side by the Mississippi River and being located in a county having an assessed valuation in excess of forty million dollars ($40,000,000.00) but less than fifty million dollars ($50,000,000.00) and having a total population in excess of thirty-seven thousand, five hundred (37,500), according to the latest federal census; and
(f) Any municipality, operating under special charter, and in which there is located a state-supported college for women; and
(g) Any municipality having a population of more than ten thousand (10,000) according to the federal census of 1970, which is located within a Class 1 county in which U.S. Highway 51 and U.S. Highway 98 intersect and bounded on the south by the State of Louisiana.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Secs. 3825-01, 3825-02; Laws, 1944, ch. 208, Sec. 1; 1956, ch. 398; 1962, ch. 547, Sec. 1; 1964, ch. 507, Sec. 1; 1968, ch. 557, Sec. 1; 1973, ch. 308, Sec. 1; 1980, ch. 378, eff from and after July 1, 1980.