Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 143.021 · Subchapter B. CLASSIFICATION AND APPOINTMENT
CLASSIFICATION; EXAMINATION REQUIREMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission shall provide for the classification of all fire fighters and police officers. The municipality's governing body shall establish the classifications by ordinance. The governing body by ordinance shall prescribe the number of positions in each classification.
(b) Except for the department head and a person the department head appoints in accordance with Section 143.014 or 143.102, each fire fighter and police officer is classified as prescribed by this subchapter and has civil service protection. The failure of the governing body to establish a position by ordinance does not result in the loss of civil service benefits by a person entitled to civil service protection or appointed to the position in substantial compliance with this chapter.
(c) Except as provided by Sections 143.013, 143.014, 143.0251, 143.102, and 143.1251, an existing position or classification or a position or classification created in the future either by name or by increase in salary may be filled only from an eligibility list that results from an examination held in accordance with this chapter.
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History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 64, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
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- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 143.013APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF DEPARTMENT HEAD.Printed as Sections 143.013, 143.014, 143.0251, 143.102, and 143.1251
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 143.014APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF PERSON CLASSIFIED IMMEDIATELY BELOW DEPARTMENT HEAD.Printed as Section 143.014 or 143.102 | Sections 143.013, 143.014, 143.0251, 143.102, and 143.1251
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 143.0251REAPPOINTMENT AFTER RESIGNATION.Printed as Sections 143.013, 143.014, 143.0251, 143.102, and 143.1251
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 143.102APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT CHIEF.Printed as Section 143.014 or 143.102 | Sections 143.013, 143.014, 143.0251, 143.102, and 143.1251
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 143.1251REAPPOINTMENT AFTER RESIGNATION.Printed as Sections 143.013, 143.014, 143.0251, 143.102, and 143.1251
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