13-2404.   Appointment of officers and employees; merit basis.In making all appointments and hiring all officers, agents and servantsin the waterworks department, the board of commissioners shall have regardalone to relative capacity of applicants, their moral, physical and healthqualifications, and, when appropriate, their qualifications for manuallabor. All appointments shall be made on the basis of merit alone, and noappointment shall ever be made in such department on account of politicalservices or affiliations.

      History:   L. 1907, ch. 114, § 102; May 27; R.S. 1923, § 13-2404.