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Dear Mayor Tregle:

You ask our opinion whether Morgan City fire and police employees, who, as you describe, are subject to the local fire and police civil service system, should be allowed to buy, sell, or trade compensatory time that they have earned if they are of the same rank. If allowed, you further ask what rules or guidelines should be implemented to meet auditing standards.

You state that the population of the City of Morgan City has fallen below 13,000. Nevertheless, it continues to have a fire and police civil service system. The city would seem to be covered at least by Part III of…