The chief official can order the medical examination by the competent municipal 
doctor of a worker to be taken into the employ of the municipality. The cost of the 
medical examination falls upon the municipality. 
§ 6. 
Every worker entering the employ of the municipality is, on such entry, to be 
given a copy of the present working regulations, but the binding force of the regulations 
does not depend on the presentation of such copy. 
2.—General Obligations relating to Municipal Employment. 
4 7. 
The worker shall carry out the instructions of his superiors precisely and willingly. 
He shall behave peaceably towards his fellow workers, and courteously and respectably 
towards the public into contact with which his work brings him. 
§ 8. 
The worker shall arrive at work punctually at the time appointed and remain there 
until work ceases (in the case of work done in shifts, until the arrival of the relief 
shift). The work assigned to him, including such work as he was not expressly employed 
to do, shall be carefully executed. During the hours prescribed for work he shall not 
leave his post without permission. 
§ 9. 
Without special permission no work shall be done during the working hours other 
than that assigned by his superiors. The acceptance by workpeople of presents in return 
for work done in the employ of the municipality is in general prohibited. 
§ io. 
Without permission in writing from the competent head of the department, no 
worker shall manage an inn or public-house or carry on a trade, or allow such to be 
managed or carried on by his wife or other members of his family belonging to his 
household. 
§ 11- 
Municipal workpeople shall not be employed to do private work for municipal 
officials or employees. Subsidiary occupations which can be prejudicial to the rendering 
of service to the municipality are likewise prohibited. 
$12. 
The worker shall give a receipt for protective clothes, tools, and material supplied to 
him for the execution of his work and be responsible for their right use and careful 
preservation. 
§13. 
The town can order particular workpeople to wear livery, caps or other distinctive 
marks. 
4 ii- 
Should the worker sustain injury while in employment, he shall inform his 
immediate superior forthwith. 
§15. 
Petitions and other memorials to the municipal authorities may only be presented 
through the head of the department. 
§16. 
Should a worker violate the present working regulations the chief officials, in 
cases where the worker is not at once discharged (cf. § 35), can, the offender having been 
heard, inflict fines to the amount of half his average daily earnings. 
§ 17- 
The penalty order is to be communicated to the person concerned without delay, 
reasons and amount being notified. Should the worker complain, the Municipal 
Executive or a committee of that body shall decide the matter. 
$18. 
Fines shall be stopped out of the next wage payment, and, where workpeople’s relief 
funds exist for particular branches of the administration they shall be paid into these 
funds ; in other cases they shall be provisionally paid for the benefit of the workpeople 
into the town fund.