306.228. Authorized personnel appointments by the commissioner--national emergency, personnel called in to military service--discrimination prohibited.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

306.228. Authorized personnel appointments by the commissioner--national emergency, personnel called in to military service--discrimination prohibited.

Authorized personnel appointments by the commissioner--nationalemergency, personnel called in to militaryservice--discrimination prohibited.

306.228. 1. The commissioner may appoint from within the membershipnot more than one assistant commissioner, two majors, nine captains, ninelieutenants, and one director of radio, each of whom shall have the samequalifications as the commissioner, and such additional force of sergeants,corporals and patrolmen and such numbers of radio personnel as thecommissioner deems necessary.

2. In case of a national emergency the commissioner may nameadditional patrolmen and radio personnel in a number sufficient to replace,temporarily, patrolmen and radio personnel called into military services.

3. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race,creed, color, national origin, religion or sex.