No control over police or fire departments
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case McGann v. Pine Bluff Police Department (1998)
Most recently applied in McGann v. Pine Bluff Police Department (September 1998)
Acts 1989, No. 439, § 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) The powers and duties of every civil service commission established pursuant to this chapter shall be and are hereby expressly limited such that the said commissions shall not have any control nor shall said commissions attempt to exercise any control over the normal and routine day-to-day operations of a police or fire department, directly or indirectly.
(2) No provision of this chapter shall be construed to provide authorization to said commissions to have such authority.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.