A. “Appointing authority or power” means the mayor of the city or the mayor’s designee.

B. “Appointment” includes all means of selecting, appointing or employing any person to hold any office, place, position or employment subject to civil service.

C. “Commission” means the civil service commission created in this chapter, and “commissioner” means any one of the three commissioners appointed to that commission.

D. “City” means the city of Gig Harbor, Washington.

E. “Full-time fully commissioned officer” means an employee vested with full authority to perform the full range of law enforcement duties traditionally performed by police officers on a year round basis pursuant to the full-time schedule of work adopted by the police department.

F. “Emergency appointment” means an appointment to serve in a position covered by this chapter under emergency conditions for the duration of the emergency.

G. “Provisional appointment” means an appointment to a position covered by this chapter made in the absence of an eligibility list for the position and pending the establishment of such list.

H. “Temporary appointment” means an appointment of an eligible or eligibles from any employment and promotional list to a position of specified temporary duration. (Ord. 510 § 2, 1987).