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The code of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia

containing the Charter as amended and re-enacted as a whole (approved March 14, 1908), the constitutional and legislative provisions of the state relating to cities, and the general ordinances of the city enacted as a whole August 6th, 1909, in effect September 1st, 1909
  
  
  

  
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Sec. 559. Eligibility and oath of chief and assistant.

No person shall be eligible to the office of chief who shall not
have been an active member of the Fire Department for five years.
No person shall be eligible to the office of assistant chief who shall
not have been an active member of the Fire Department for at
least three years. The Chief of the Fire Department and the
assistant chief shall, before entering upon the discharge of their
duties as such, take an oath as prescribed for all other officers, to
faithfully perform the duties of the office to which they have been
elected.