RS 11:3727 Eligibility for appointment to department; physical examination - Louisiana Statutes

§3727.  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 thirty-five years at the time of such original appointment, and shall be subject to re-employment 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.  This Section does not apply to those persons who were regular members of the department on July 31, 1940.  

Acts 1968, No. 641, §2; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2367 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991.