2005 Idaho Code - 50-1601 — CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION -- APPOINTMENT -- QUALIFICATIONS -- MANNER OF ABOLISHING COMMISSION

                                  TITLE  50
                            MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
                                  CHAPTER 16
                                CIVIL SERVICE
    50-1601.  CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION -- APPOINTMENT -- QUALIFICATIONS --
MANNER OF ABOLISHING COMMISSION. To provide a means whereby employees of the
cities of the state of Idaho may be selected, retained and promoted on the
basis of merit and performance of duties, thus affecting [effecting] economy
and efficiency in the administration of city government, the city council of
any city may, by ordinance, provide for the creation of a civil service system
under the provisions herein set forth.
    (A)  To create such system, the mayor with the advice and consent of the
council shall appoint three (3) persons from among the qualified electors of
the city to be designated the civil service commission.
    (B)  One member of said civil service commission shall serve a two (2)
year term, another member shall serve a four (4) year term, and a third member
shall serve a six (6) year term. Each second year thereafter, one (1) member
shall in like manner be appointed for a term of six (6) years, to take the
place of the member whose term next expires. If a vacancy occurs in the civil
service commission, such vacancy for the balance of the unexpired term shall
be filled as in the first instance.
    Any city having created a civil service system shall not thereafter
abolish such system except as herein provided: notice of date, time and place
of first reading of the proposed ordinance to abolish such system shall be
published in one (1) issue of the official newspaper of the city not less than
ten (10) days immediately preceding the first reading of the proposed
ordinance; and, such ordinance shall not be passed unless the same is read at
length on three (3) different days at least seven (7) days apart.