A. The groups considered to be appropriate groups for the purposes of this Division shall be comprised of categories other than those defined as excluded in this Ordinance, and other than those defined as public employees under the Meet and Confer Ordinance, Section 2-210(14), hereof, together with those employees who may be designated as professional employees or supervisory employees by the Phoenix Employment Relations Board.

B. No group considered to be appropriate in paragraph A, above, shall include as members both sworn police officers of any rank and any other public employee not so commissioned. It is the express purpose of this paragraph to create two mutually exclusive groups of employees who may form separate associations, one group consisting of sworn police officers of the ranks previously specified and the other group consisting of all other employees covered by this Division. (Ord. No. G-1536, § 1; Ord. No. G-1592, § 2; Ord. No. G-2170, § 1; Ord. No. G-4854, § 1, 2006)