RS 11:3520 Eligibility for appointment to department; physical examination - Louisiana Statutes

§3520.  Eligibility for appointment to department; physical examination

A.  Persons eligible for first appointment to the police department shall be between the ages of twenty-one and forty years at the time of such original appointment, and shall be subject to reemployment after the age of thirty-five years.  No person shall be employed in the department without first submitting to a physical examination by the municipal physician.  If not pronounced physically fit by the physician the applicant shall not under any conditions be eligible for benefits from the fund.  The physician shall make a written report of each applicant examined to the commissioner of public safety and to the board immediately upon examination.  

B.  Persons eligible for first appointment to the police department shall be between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years at the time of such original appointment, and shall be subject to reemployment after the age of thirty-five years.  No person shall be employed in the department without first submitting to a physical examination by the municipal physician.  If not pronounced physically fit by the physician the applicant shall not under any conditions be eligible for benefits from the fund.  The physician shall make a written report of each applicant examined to the commissioner of public safety and to the board immediately upon examination.  

Amended by Acts 1954, No. 248, §1; Acts 1968, No. 411, §1; Acts 1970, No. 638, §§1, 2; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2240 and R.S. 33:2240.1 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.