Section 1. The appointment, promotion and reduction in rank, suspension and removal of paid operators of fire apparatus in boroughs, incorporated towns and townships of the first class, shall be regulated by this act only in boroughs, incorporated towns and townships of the first class having two paid operators of fire apparatus, if a civil service commission created under the act, approved the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred forty-one (Pamphlet Laws, eighty-four), has been appointed; or in boroughs, incorporated towns and townships of the first class having three or more paid operators of fire apparatus, if no civil service commission under the act, approved the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred forty-one (Pamphlet Laws, eighty-four), has been appointed.
Section 1. (a) Appointments, etc., As Operators of Fire Apparatus in Boroughs, Incorporated Towns and Townships of the First Class.--Hereafter each and every appointment as a fire apparatus operator in every borough, incorporated town and township of the first class (hereinafter referred to as a municipality), shall be made only according to qualifications and fitness to be ascertained by examination, which shall be competitive as hereinafter provided.
No person shall hereinafter be suspended, removed or reduced in rank as a paid operator of fire apparatus of any municipality, except in accordance with the provisions of this act.
Compiler's Note: The two section 1's are mistakes in numbering. The original intent was probably to number the second section 1 as 1-A or to completely renumber this act.