Chap. 0011 An Act to extend the civil service laws to certain employees of the town of natick.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The board of fire engineers, the permanent and call firemen and members of the police department in the town of Natick shall be subject to the civil service laws and the regulations made thereunder, but without requiring any examination of the present incumbents of said positions.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by a majority of the legal voters of the said town present and voting thereon at any town meeting duly called for the purpose. If this act is submitted to the voters of the town of Natick at an annual town meeting the following question shall be placed on the official ballot used for the election of town officers: - "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen to extend the civil service laws to the board of fire engineers, the permanent and call firemen, and members of the police department in the town of Natick be accepted?"
Section 3. The provisions of chapter eight hundred and thirty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen and amendments thereof, in so far as the same are inconsistent herewith, shall not affect the proceedings under this act.
Section 4. So much of this act as provides for its submission to the voters of the town of Natick shall take effect upon its passage. Approved January 30, 1917.
[Rejected, March 5, 1917.]