City of Middlesboro v. Harrell

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The question is the authority of the Civil Service Commission of a city of the third class to receive and hear charges of misconduct on the part of its chief of police.

Middlesboro had created a Civil Service Commission as provided in KRS 90.310. In February members of the common .council filed .with the Commission “charges of various offenses in an attempt to oust” Guy Harrell as chief of police. A few days later the council suspended him from office without pay. Harrell objected to the jurisdiction of the Commission, but it proceeded with hearings and then continued the…