Torrance Municipal Code Art. 10 Civil Service

1000 CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM.

All appointments and promotions in the classified service of the City shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be ascertained, so far as practicable by competitive examination. The civil service system existing on April 10, 1962, whether created or amended in whole or in part by ordinances adopted by vote of the People or by ordinances adopted by the City Council shall continue in full force and effect; provided, however, that the City Council may amend, delete or replace any provisions of the ordinances by ordinance or ordinances by a five-sevenths vote of the City Council after consideration thereof by the Civil Service Commission. The City Council shall not have the authority to withdraw any departments or employees from the operation of such system, either by outright repeal of the civil service ordinances or otherwise, unless and until the withdrawal thereof shall have been submitted to the qualified electors of the City at a regular or special municipal election held in the City. Nothing contained in this Section 1000 shall repeal or modify any of the provisions of Article 6 of this Charter which established the City Manager form of government.

1001 APPOINTIVE OFFICERS.

Appointive officers of the City shall be a City Attorney and a City Manager. The City Council may also provide by ordinance for such additional appointive boards, commissions, officers, assistants, deputies and employees as it deems necessary. The Council may also provide for the holding by one (1) person of several offices, providing that such offices are not incompatible with one another.

1002 COMPENSATION; APPOINTIVE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.

Compensation of all appointive officers and employees of the City, other than those serving gratuitously, shall be fixed or charged by the City Council. No officer or employee shall be paid by the City any fee or emolument in addition to, or save as embraced in, the salary or compensation fixed by the Council and all fees received by such officer or employee for the performance of any of their official duties shall be paid by the officer or employee into the City Treasury.