4.20.060 Tenure of employment – Grounds for discharge, reduction or deprivation of privileges

4.20.060 Tenure of employment – Grounds for discharge, reduction or deprivation of privileges.

A. The tenure of everyone holding an office, place, position or employment under the provisions of this chapter shall be only during good behavior and any such person may be removed or discharged, suspended without pay, demoted, or reduced in rank, or deprived of vacation privileges or other special privileges for any of the following reasons:

1. Incompetency, inefficiency or inattention to or dereliction of duty;

2. Dishonesty, intemperance, immoral conduct, insubordination, discourteous treatment of the public or a fellow employee or any other act of omission or commission tending to injure the public service; or any other willful failure on the part of the employee to properly conduct himself; or any willful violation of the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations to be adopted hereunder;

3. Mental or physical unfitness for the position which the employee holds, subject to the City’s obligations, if any, for reasonable accommodation as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act;

4. Dishonest, disgraceful, immoral or prejudicial conduct;

5. Drunkenness or use of intoxicating liquors, narcotics or any other habit forming drug, liquid or preparation to such extent that the use thereof interferes with the efficiency or mental or physical fitness of the employee, which precludes the employee from properly performing the function and duties of any position under civil service, subject to the City’s obligations, if any, for reasonable accommodation as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act;

6. Conviction of a felony, or a misdemeanor, involving moral turpitude;

7. Any other act or failure to act which in the judgment of the civil service commissioners is sufficient to show the offender to be an unsuitable and unfit person to be employed in the public service. (Ord. 2581 § 3 (part), 2011).