Common use of RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT/COMMUTE TO WORK Clause in Contracts

RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT/COMMUTE TO WORK. A. The employees of the Police Department must reside within an area to be able to respond to emergency conditions within forty-five (45) minutes. Any Police Officer who has not established a residence as stated above prior to the end of the Officer’s probationary employment shall be rejected as a permanent employee of the Officer’s department and shall be subsequently dismissed. B. In the event that an employee has a mechanically disabled vehicle and has no alternative transportation to work, or because of heavy snow conditions, an employee may contact the on-duty shift commander to request transportation to work. The Shift Commander shall then make reasonable effort to arrange transportation for the employee by a regularly scheduled on-duty unit. Because transportation is on an "as available" basis, the employees recognize that calls for transportation to work may be unavailable if less than two hours advance notice is given, or if emergencies tie up available units. Employees may be picked up and transported to work for other emergency purposes than the two listed above with the approval of the Chief or designee. Such reasons for approval shall not become a practice or precedent under this Article, or Article 10 (Prior Practice). This Section shall only apply to those employees who reside in South Portland. Commuting time shall not be considered hours worked for purposes of pay or overtime.