§ 5-3. Adoption and enforcement of rules and regulations by the commissioner of public safety.
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The commissioner of public safety shall make, adopt and enforce such reasonable rules,
orders and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the state
and this act [chapter], as may be reasonably necessary to effect a prompt and efficient
exercise of all powers conferred by law and the performance of all duties imposed
by law upon the said commissioner or the said departments or upon any part of or person
in said departments. He is authorized and empowered to make, adopt, promulgate and
enforce reasonable rules, orders and regulations for the government, discipline, administration
and disposition of the officers and members of said departments and for the hearing,
examination, investigation, trial and determination of charges made or preferred against
any officer or member of said departments, for neglect or dereliction of official
duty or incompetency or incapacity to perform his official duties or some delinquency
seriously affecting his general character or fitness for the office; and in his discretion
to punish any such officer or member found guilty thereof, by reprimand, forfeiting
and withholding pay for a specified time, suspension without pay during the period
thereof or by dismissal from office, and such period of suspension or withholding
of pay shall not be limited by any provisions of law not herein contained; but no
officer or member shall be removed or otherwise punished for any other cause nor until
specific charges in writing shall have been preferred against and served upon him
and he shall have been found guilty thereof, after reasonable notice and upon due
trail before said commissioner, in the form and manner prescribed by law and the rules
and regulations of the department. The said commissioner is also authorized and empowered
in his discretion to deduct and withhold pay, salary or compensation from any officer
or member of said departments for or on account of absence for any cause without leave,
but no deduction shall be made on account of lost time by reason of sickness or other
disability, physical or mental.
