Texas Local Government Code

§ 143.032 — PROMOTIONAL EXAMINATION PROCEDURE

LG § 143.032Title 5. MATTERS AFFECTING PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Part A. MUNICIPAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Ch. 143. MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE FOR FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS · Art. B. CLASSIFICATION AND APPOINTMENT

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(a)The commission shall adopt rules governing promotions and shall hold promotional examinations to provide eligibility lists for each classification in the fire and police departments. Unless a different procedure is adopted under an alternate promotional system as provided by Section 143.035, the examinations shall be held substantially as prescribed by this section. (b)(1) Each eligible promotional candidate shall be given an identical examination in the presence of the other eligible promotional candidates, except that an eligible promotional candidate who is serving on active military duty outside of this state or in a location that is not within reasonable geographic proximity to the location where the examination is being administered is entitled to take the examination outside of the presence of and at a different time than the other candidates and may be allowed to take an examination that is not identical to the examination administered to the other candidates.

(2)The commission may adopt rules under Subsection (a) providing for the efficient administration of promotional examinations to eligible promotional candidates who are members of the armed forces serving on active military duty. In adopting the rules, the commission shall ensure that the administration of the examination will not result in unnecessary interference with any ongoing military effort. The rules shall require that:

(A)at the discretion of the administering entity, an examination that is not identical to the examination administered to other eligible promotional candidates may be administered to an eligible promotional candidate who is serving on active military duty; and

(B)if a candidate serving on active military duty takes a promotional examination outside the presence of other candidates and passes the examination, the candidate's name shall be included in the eligibility list of names of promotional candidates who took and passed the examination nearest in time to the time at which the candidate on active military duty took the examination.

(c)The examination must be entirely in writing and may not in any part consist of an oral interview.

(d)The examination questions must test the knowledge of the eligible promotional candidates about information and facts and must be based on:

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Legislative history

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 833 (S.B. 863), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2005.