§ 2-52. Residency requirements for certain city employees where job-related necessity.

Due to the particular duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of certain jobs of employees specific reasonable residency requirements are hereby established:

All street, water, and sewer department personnel and the city attorney shall reside within a 15 minute response area of their respective work headquarters in the City of International Falls, Minnesota. All firefighters and ambulance attendants shall reside within an eight minute response area. Ambulance attendants serving in a temporary (casual) work capacity shall be allowed to work scheduled shifts and be exempt from the residency requirement.

a.

Response area: Is that amount of time that it takes for the employee's or appointee's supervisor to travel in accordance with the speed limit and traffic laws from the residence to the work headquarters.

b.

Work headquarters: Is the place where each employee or appointee normally appears for work at the beginning of each workday, or the fire station in the municipal building for firefighters and ambulance attendants.

(Ord. No. 4, 5th series, § 2, 7-7-08; Ord. No. 19, 5th series, §§ 2, 3, 12-10-16; Ord. No. 27, 5th series, § 1, 9-22-18)