Kennedy v. Civil Service Commission

CARTER, Justice.

Police officers who were disciplined by the appointing authority appeal from orders in their certiorari actions that rejected their challenge to the use of a hearing officer to take evidence and make a disciplinary recommendation to the Civil Service Commission of the City of Council Bluffs. The district court concluded that the commission had the power under the municipal home-rule amendment, Iowa Const, art. Ill, § 38A, to delegate its authority to a hearing officer. On this appeal the officers urge that (1) the commission lacked rule-making authority; (2) if rule-making…