§ 2-975. Exemptions.

(a)

The domicile requirement imposed by this article shall not apply to any employee of the city who was hired by the city prior to January 1, 2013, except that no employee who was previously exempted and later changed his/her actual domicile to Orleans Parish shall be entitled to retain the benefits of this exemption if that employee establishes a new actual domicile outside of Orleans Parish.

(b)

The domicile requirement imposed by this article shall not apply to any commissioned law enforcement officers hired by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), firefighters hired by the New Orleans Fire Department (NOFD), emergency medical technicians hired by New Orleans Emergency Medical Services (NOEMS) and the recruits for these positions hired by these departments. Furthermore, appropriate sensitivity training to address racial, gender, religious, and sexual orientation discrimination shall be provided for all law enforcement officers. For the purposes of this subsection, the word "hired" has the same meaning as the word "employed."

(c)

The domicile requirement imposed by this article shall not apply to any employee of the New Orleans Aviation Board during the term of his or her employment with such board and for six months thereafter, if the actual domicile of the employee is nearer to the employee's job site than the distance from the job site to the nearest point of Orleans Parish.

(d)

Part-time employees, those employees who are not classified as full-time employees, shall be exempt from the domicile requirement imposed by this article.

(e)

Additional exemptions to the domicile requirement imposed by this article may be granted upon a showing of extreme hardship by an employee, on an individual, case-by-case basis, by the appointing authority of the employee subject to the approval of the chief administrative officer. Any employee who seeks to request an exemption to the domicile requirement imposed by this article shall file with the appointing authority and the chief administrative office a request for such an exemption, on a form prescribed by the chief administrative officer.

(f)

Except as otherwise expressively provided in this article, under no circumstances shall any officer or employee who does not maintain an actual domicile in Orleans Parish be administered with any different treatment or negatively impacted in any way during his or her employment than an employee who is domiciled in New Orleans.

(g)

The chief administrative officer shall promulgate administrative policies and procedures for the administration of and enforcement of this section within 90 days of the effective date of this ordinance. The chief administrative officer shall provide all employees exempted under this section with notice of all policies and procedures promulgated pursuant to this section.

(M.C.S., Ord. No. 25242, § 1, 3-7-13; M.C.S., Ord. No. 25793, § 1, 4-10-14; M.C.S., Ord. No. 26035, §§ 2, 3, 9-4-14)