OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, August 11, 1988:
May Pittsburgh, as a home-rule city, lawfully avoid applying a civil service statute's competitive selection provisions to two new "assistant" positions in charge of fire suppression and prevention directly under the fire bureau's chief, when that statute has provided that:
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