The commission shall have absolute control and supervision over the employment, promotion, discharge, and suspension of all officers and employees of the police department of such city and these powers shall extend to and include all members of the police department. The commission may not, however, prescribe any residency requirements for the positions under its control, unless approved by the city council.
The commission shall, immediately after its appointment and organization, grade and classify all of the employees of the police department of the city and a service register shall be prepared for the purpose, in which shall be entered, in their classes, the names, ages, compensation, period of past employment and such other facts and data with reference to each employee as the commission may deem useful.
The commission shall keep a second register to be known as the application register in which shall be entered the names and addresses, in the order of the date of application, of all applicants for examination and the offices or employments they seek. All applications shall be upon forms prescribed by the commission and contain such data and information as the commission deems necessary and useful.
Notes of Decisions
State Ex Rel. Kos v. Adamson, 32 N.W.2d 281 (Minn. 1948).
· cites it 4× “Section 419.05 in part provides: “The commission shall have absolute control and supervision over the employment, promotion, discharge, and suspension of all officers and employees of the police department of such city or village and these powers shall extend to and include all…”
Anderson v. Police Civil Serv. Comm'n, 414 N.W.2d 389 (Minn. 1987).
· cites it 6× “A Police Civil Service Commission, pursuant to Minn.Stat. § 419.05 (1986), has the absolute control and supervision over the promotion of officers of the city’s police department.”
Yaeger v. Giguerre, 23 N.W.2d 22 (Minn. 1946).
· cites it 2× “Under § 419.05 (§ 1933-52), this commission at once became vested with “absolute control and supervision over the employment, promotion, discharge, and suspension of all officers and employees of the police department.”
Barlau v. City of Northfield, 568 F. Supp. 181 (D. Minnesota 1983).
· cites it 2× “Minn. Stat. §§ 419.05 , .07 (1982); City of North-field Police Civil Service Rules and Regulations, §§ 14, 16 (July 21, 1977).”
State Ex Rel. Archambo v. Thorfinnson, 61 N.W.2d 231 (Minn. 1953).
“Among other things, the commission did not adopt any rules; it posted none, as was required by statute, since none were adopted; it did not keep an application register as required by § 419.05; and it failed to keep a proper service register.”
Anderson v. Police Civil Serv. Comm'n of the City of Willmar, 398 N.W.2d 640 (Minn. Ct. App. 1987).
· cites it 2× “Minn.Stat. § 419.05 (1984). Regarding examination of candidates, the statute provides: All examinations shall be impartial, fair, and practical and designed only to test the relative qualifications and fitness of applicants to discharge the duties of the particular employment…”
Greg Peterson, Relator v. Richfield Civil Serv. Comm'n (Minn. Ct. App. 2014).
· cites it 2× “” Minn. Stat. § 419.05 (2012). In exercising that control, however, a commission is required to “promote efficiency in the police department service and to carry out the purposes of [the police civil-service law].”
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