Opinion No.

The Honorable Larry Mitchell State Representative P.O. Box 81 Bryant, AR 72022

Dear Representative Mitchell:

This is in response to your request for an opinion regarding the authority of the Civil Service Commission under Act 326 of 1949. You have asked, specifically, whether the Civil Service Commission or the City Council is responsible for hiring the police chief and the fire chief of a city.

I assume that your question is asked with respect to a city of the first class operating under the mayor — city council form of government, also known as the aldermanic form of government, and that the…