Turner v. Cole

GANT, Judge.

Appellant, Jewell Turner, was the Chief of Police in Providence, Kentucky, a city of the fourth class, having been appointed to fill out the unexpired term of his resigned predecessor. On October 27, 1975, the “lame duck” city council enacted an ordinance adopting the provisions of “Sections 90.310 to 90.410 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes” and applying them to “all employees in the Police and Fire Departments of the City of Providence except as specifically included (sic) from time to time.” A civil service commission was created, its members sworn in, but no pension fund was…