61.409 Law enforcement agency not to establish requirements for employees

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relating to residency or voter registration -- Exceptions -- Application.

(1)No state, city, county, urban-county, charter county, or consolidated local

government law enforcement agency shall set a residence requirement, except

requiring residence within the Commonwealth, for any of its employees who do not

possess peace officer powers.

(2)No state, city, county, urban-county, charter county, or consolidated local

government law enforcement agency shall require that an employee, whether that

employee is a peace officer or not, be a registered voter.

(3)The provisions of subsection

(1)shall not preclude an employer or agency specified

in subsection

(1)from having a requirement for response to a specified location

within a specified time limit for an employee or volunteer who is off-duty but who

is on-call to respond for work.

(4)The residence requirements of subsection

(1)of this section requiring residency

within the Commonwealth shall not apply to an employee of a law enforcement

agency employed by that agency on July 15, 2002, until that employee's

employment relationship with the law enforcement agency is terminated.