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Dear Mr. Pittard:

On behalf of the South Bossier Volunteer Fire Department (Fire District Two) you ask the following question:

Does the hiring of three (or more) paid firemen who are full-time personnel, a paid part-time secretary/firefighter, a paid part-time treasurer, and two or more paid part-time firefighters constitute a "regularly paid fire department" which would require us to become Civil Service?

In other words, you ask if Civil Service Laws are applicable to this volunteer fire department with regularly paid employees. Our response to your question is "yes".

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