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AN ORDINAYCE RESERVII7.G A.ND PROTECTING THE CIVIL SE tVICE S^1AT[73 OF
CERTAIN WPLOY ES OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARK&SAS, INHO ARE
DRAFTED BY AUTHORITY OF LA.V FROM THEIR AlPLOWMTT INTO CIVILIAN
DEF&SE +I 2LO) +ILNT OR D" +EI SE ACTIVITIES, DECLARING AID: 111 +12GaCY
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORD41NED BY ME CITY COUNCIL OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
SWTIGN 1. All employees of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas,
other than officials elected in the city general elections who are
drafted or ordered by authority of law, whether state or federal,
into defense work or who are ordered by the War Manpower Commission
to undertake other employment and duties are hereby protected in the
Civil Service status they enjoyed At the time they. ceased discharging
functions for the City of Little Rock, and said employees are hereby
granted a leave of absence from the City's employment. On their
discharge from the employment to which they are assigned by the
authority of law or by the Fear Manpower Commission, each of said
employees may return to the position of employment held on leaving
the employ of the city, without loss of rank. Said employees shall
retain the Civil Service status held by them at the time they left
the City's employment; and they shall be given credit in their seniority
and /or pension records for all the time spent in said other employment,
in exactly the same fashion as if they had spent said time in the employment
of the City of Little Rock, Arkansas. Provided, however, that any
perscu.. desiring to avail himself of the benefits of this ordinance,
must make application for reinstatement with the Civil Service
pisaieu� within 120 -days after his discharge from said employment
or from his return to the Continental United States following said
discharge,, whichever shall occur last.
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SECTION 2. The efficient prosecution of the war in which the
United States of America is now involved being vital to the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist,
and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
Its passage.
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City Clerk