City of Tulsa v. Taylor, 47940
Decision Date | 20 July 1976 |
Docket Number | No. 1,No. 47940,47940,1 |
Citation | 1976 OK CIV APP 42,555 P.2d 885 |
Parties | CITY OF TULSA, Oklahoma, a Municipal Corporation, Appellant, v. Ronnie D. TAYLOR, Appellee |
Court | United States State Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma. Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma |
Appeal from the District Court of Tulsa County; Ronald N. Ricketts, judge.
Affirmed.
Waldo F. Bales, City Atty., by Ronald D. Wood, Asst. City Atty., Tulsa, for appellant.
Frasier & Frasier by James E. Frasier, Tulsa, for appellee.
An appeal by the City of Tulsa, a municipal corporation, (defendant), from a Declaratory Judgment declaring a certain section of the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual contrary to the law of the State of Oklahoma.
Appellee Ronnie D. Taylor, a Tulsa police officer, and a member of the National Guard of the State of Oklahoma, filed his petition for himself and on behalf of 36 other persons similarly situated, challenging the validity of a certain section of the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual, pertaining to the pay policy of employees of the City of Tulsa, while on military reserve duty.
From the granting of a Declaratory Judgment in favor of appellee, City appeals, alleging error as follows:
'PROPOSITION I. The Court erred in overruling Appellant's Special Demurrer to Appellee's petition, which demurrer was based on the grounds that the Appellant is a Charter City and that, as a consequence, the laws of the State of Oklahoma do not apply to matters of purely local concern, and that the City's personnel policies and procedures is a matter of purely local concern.
'PROPOSITION II. The Court erred in its interpretation of the phrase 'loss of pay' contained in 44 O.S.1973, Sec. 209, and in 72 O.S.1973, Sec. 48.
'PROPOSITION III. The Court erred in that 44 O.S.1973, Section 209 and 72 O.S.1973, Section 48, only apply to government employees who are ordered to active duty, and that the term 'active duty' does not embrace summer training camps of relatively brief duration.
The basic questions for this court are whether or not police officers of the City of Tulsa, who are also members of the National Guard, shall be paid their full city salary while attending their annual two week summer training camps, also collecting pay from their National Guard organizations? Does public policy require the State of Oklahoma or subdivisions thereof, or a municipality therein to provide these individuals their full pay in addition to their summer encampment pay? We answer both questions in the affirmative.
The Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, Art. 5 § 40, provides as follows:
44 O.S.1971, titled 'Militia' provides in part as follows:
' § 2. Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to revise, amend, correct and bring up to date the statutes relating to the Military Department of Oklahoma, the organized and unorganized militia, and the National Guard of Oklahoma, and as set forth in the title hereof.
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