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2012 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 95 CITY POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS
95.710 Qualifications of members of police and fire departments.


KY Rev Stat § 95.710 (2012) What's This?

Download as PDF 95.710 Qualifications of members of police and fire departments. To be eligible for appointment as a member of the police force or fire department of a city of the fourth or fifth class, except cities of the fourth class which have adopted KRS 95.761 to 95.784, a person must be able to read and write the English language intelligibly, and sober, moral and sagacious. In addition, a member of a police department in a city of the fourth or fifth class shall be at least twenty-one (21) years of age, and a member of a fire department of a city of the fourth or fifth class shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age. No person who has been convicted of a felony is eligible for appointment. After appointment no member shall interfere in any election. Effective: July 19, 1985 History through 1968: Amended 1985 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 2, effective July 19, 1985. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 40, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 159, sec. 1, effective March 29, 1976. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 73. -- Amended 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 81, sec. 1. -- Amended 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3493, 3629a.

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