Bill Text: WV SB33 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to age requirements for appointment as deputy sheriff
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - To Government Organization [SB33 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2020-SB33-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2020 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 33
By Senator Hamilton
[Introduced January
8, 2020; referred
to the Committee on Government Organization]
A BILL to amend and reenact §7-14-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the age requirements of persons for the position of deputy sheriff.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 14. CIVIL SERVICE FOR DEPUTY SHERIFFS.
§7-14-8. Form of application; age requirements; exceptions.
The Civil Service Commission in each such
county shall require persons applying for admission to any competitive
examination provided for under this article or under the rules and regulations
of the commission to file in its office, within a reasonable time prior to the
proposed competitive examination, a formal application in which the applicant
shall state under oath or affirmation:
(1) His or her full name, residence, and post-office address;
(2) His or her United States citizenship, age, and the place and date of his or her birth;
(3) His or her health and his or her physical capacity for the position of deputy sheriff;
(4) His or her business, employments, and residences for at least three previous years; and
(5) Such other information as may reasonably be required, relative to the applicant’s qualifications and fitness for the position of deputy sheriff.
Blank forms for such the applications
shall be furnished by the commission, without charge, to all persons requesting
the same applications. The commission may require, in connection
with the application, such certificates of citizens, physicians, or others,
having pertinent knowledge concerning the applicant, as the good of the service
may require.
No application for original appointment shall may
be received on and after the effective date of this article, if the person
applying is less than 18 years of age or more than forty-five years 50
years of age at the date of his or her application: Provided,
That in the event if any applicant formerly served as a deputy
sheriff for a period of more than six months in the county to which he or
she makes application, and resigned as a deputy sheriff at a time when
there were no charges of misconduct or other misfeasance pending against him or
her, within a period of two years next preceding the date of his or her
application, and at the time of his or her application resides within
the county in which he or she seeks appointment by reinstatement, then such
the applicant shall be is eligible for appointment by
reinstatement in the discretion of the Civil Service Commission, even though such
the applicant shall be is over the age of forty-five
years 50 years, provided he or she is not 65 years of age or
over, and such the applicant, providing his or her former
term of service as a deputy sheriff so justifies, may be reappointed by
reinstatement without a competitive examination, but such the applicant
shall undergo a medical examination; and if such the applicant shall
be so is appointed by reinstatement as aforesaid, he or
she shall be the lowest in rank in the sheriff’s office next above the
probationers of the office.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to change the cut off age for persons applying for appointment as deputy sheriffs from 45 years of age to 50 years of age.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
