HomeMy WebLinkAbout6428ORDI=NANCE N0. 6429
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDI=NANCE # 6405, DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY TO EXIST, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS;
Section 1. Section l of Ordinance 46405 is hereby amended to
"All employees of the City of hittle Rcck other than officials
elected in the City 7eneral elections who enter the armed forces of
the United States of America, whether by their voluntary act or
otherwise during this period of national emergency, are hereby
granted a leave of absence from the City's employment. On their
honorable discharge from said armed forces, they may return, to the
positions of employment held by tr_em when they left the employ of
the City, without loss of rank; they shall retain the Civil Service
status held by them at the time that they left the City's employ-
ment; and they shall be given credit in their seniority records for f
all the time spent in the armed forces of the United States of
America in exactly the same fashion as if they had spent said time
in the employment of the City cf Little Rock, provided, however,
that any person desiring to avail himself of the benefits of this
ordinance must make application for reinstatement with the Civil
Service Commission within one hundred and twenty (120) days after
his discharge from said armed forces or his arrival within the
Continental United States following; said discharge, whichever shall
occur last.
Section 2• The efficient prosecution of the war in which the
United States is now involved being of vital consequence 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
after
and' %its passage and approval.
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