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 SERVICE COMMISSION 
 
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 THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 
 As Prescribed and Established December 4, 1903. 
 With Amendments to January 12, 1906. 
 
 THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. 
 
 COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 WILLIAM F. BAKER, President. 
 R. ROSS APPLETON, ALFRED J. TALLEY. 
 
 FRANK A. SPENCER, Secretary. 
 
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 'MUNICIPAL 
 
 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION 
 
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 THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 
 RULES AND CLASSIFICATION 
 
 As Prescribed and Established December 4, 1903. 
 With Amendments to January 12, 1906. 
 
 THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. 
 
 COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 WILLIAM F. BAKER, President. 
 R. ROSS APPLETON, ALFRED J. TALLEY. 
 
 FRANK A. SPENCER, Secretary. 
 
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 MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE RULES. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PACK" 
 
 PROMULGATING ORDER i 
 
 I. DEFINITION OF TERMS 5 
 
 II. GENERAL PROVISIONS 5. 
 
 III. ORGANIZATION AND POWERS OF THE COMMISSION 6- 
 
 IV. CLASSIFICATION 7 
 
 V. THE EXEMPT CLASS 8 
 
 * VI. THE COMPETITIVE CLASS & 
 
 VII. Competitive Examinations i<x 
 
 VIII. Filing of Applications 15- 
 
 IX. Marking and Rating 16- 
 
 X. Eligible Lists 17- 
 
 XI. Certification and Appointment. 18- 
 
 XII. Temporary and Exceptional Appointments 211 
 
 XIII. Suspension and Reinstatement 23- 
 
 XIV. Transfer 25 
 
 XV. Promotion 261 
 
 XVI. Removals 30* 
 
 XVII. Special Provisions Affecting the Police and Fire Services 30 
 
 XVIII. THE NON-COMPETITIVE CLASS 32 
 
 XIX. THE LABOR CLASS 34. 
 
 XX. THE CIVIL LIST : AND REPORTS OF CHANGES 39, 
 
 XXI. CERTIFICATION OF PAY-ROLLS 40- 
 
 XXII. TRANSMISSION OF RULES 41 
 
 * CLASSIFICATION OF THE CITY SERVICE 43 
 
 CIVIL SERVICE LAW 59 
 
 LAWS REPEALED 80 
 
 SPECIAL CHARTER PROVISIONS 8 1
 
 PROMULGATING ORDER. 
 
 NEW YORK, December 2, 1903. 
 
 IN compliance with and under the authority of the provisions 
 of Section 9 of Article V of the Constitution, of The Civil Service 
 Law, and of the Greater New York Charter, the Municipal Civil 
 Service Commission of the City of New York hereby prescribes the 
 following rules for the regulation of the classified service of such 
 city, to take effect and to have the force and effect of law, revoking 
 all other rules to that end, when approved by the Mayor and the 
 State Civil Service Commission. 
 
 WILLIS L. OGDEN, President, 
 WILLIAM N. DYKMAN, 
 ALEXANDER T. MASON, 
 THEODORE M. BANTA, 
 NELSON S. SPENCER, 
 Municipal Civil Service Commissioners. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 [SEAL.] S. WILLIAM BRISCOE, Secretary.
 
 MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE RULES 
 
 OF 
 
 THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 
 Rule I. 
 
 DEFINITION OF TERMS. 
 
 The several terms, hereinafter mentioned, whenever used in 
 these rules or in any regulations in force thereunder, shall be con- 
 strued as follows : 
 
 1. The " Civil Service of The City of New York," which may 
 be designated for convenient reference the " City Service," 
 includes all offices and positions of trust or employment in the 
 service of the city, of whatever function, designation or compen- 
 sation. 
 
 2. The term " Classified Service " refers to that portion of the 
 City Service that is arranged in classes under these rules, for the 
 purposes of the Civil Service Law, and includes all of such offices 
 and positions except elective officers; the officers and employees 
 of the Board of Aldermen; election boards or officers appointed 
 under section 6 of article II of the Constitution; the head or 
 heads of any department of the city government; and persons 
 employed as superintendents, principals or teachers in the public 
 schools. 
 
 3. The term " Class " refers to the Exempt Class, the Com- 
 petitive Class, the Non-Competitive Class, or the Labor Class, as 
 defined in The Civil Service Law. 
 
 4. The term " Grade " refers to subdivisions of the Competi- 
 tive Class arranged for purposes of promotion, and based upon
 
 the relative character of the duties, or upon the amount of com- 
 pensation, regularly attaching to the positions contained therein* 
 
 5. The term " Classification " refers to the arrangement, in 
 schedule form, of the titles, offices and positions in the several 
 classes and grades, which is appended hereto, and which forms an 
 integral part of these rules. 
 
 6. The term " Commission," when used by itself, refers to- 
 the Municipal Civil Service Commission. 
 
 7. The term "Appointing Officer" refers to the officer, com- 
 mission, board or body having the power of appointment to sub- 
 ordinate offices or positions in any municipal department, office, 
 board, court or institution. 
 
 8. The term " Veteran," when used by itself, refers to honor- 
 ably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines of the Army or Navy 
 of the United States in the late Civil War, who are citizens and 
 residents of this State. 
 
 9. The term " Laborer " refers to any mechanic, skilled or 
 unskilled laborer employed, or seeking employment, in a posi- 
 tion in the Labor Class. 
 
 10. The term " Position," when used by itself, refers to any 
 classified office, position or employment. 
 
 n. The term "Compensation" refers to the annual salary 
 attaching to an office or position, or to its equivalent if stated by 
 the day, week or month, and shall include proper commutation 
 for lodging or board when either is furnished at the expense of the 
 City, such rate of commutation to be fixed by regulation of the 
 Commission. 
 
 12. The masculine pronoun " he " and its derivatives, wherever 
 employed, includes the feminine pronoun " she " and its derivatives. 
 
 13. The term " day " or " days," wherever employed, refers to 
 days on which the city departments are open for the transaction 
 of public business.
 
 Rule II. 
 
 GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 1. All appointments, promotions or selections for employment 
 in the Classified Service shall be made according to the merit and 
 fitness of candidates therefor, and in the manner prescribed by these 
 rules. 
 
 2. No appointing officer shall appoint, promote or employ 
 any subordinate officer or employee in the Classified Service, or 
 in any way change the official status of any such officer or em- 
 ployee, except in accordance with these rules, and no such ap- 
 pointment, promotion, employment or change of status made in 
 contravention of any provision of these rules shall be valid. 
 
 3. No appointment to or selection for, or removal from any 
 office, position or employment in the Classified Service, and no 
 change in the official status of any person in such service shall be 
 in any manner affected or influenced by the political opinions 
 or affiliations of any applicant, or of any officer or employee. 
 No inquiry made by or on behalf of any nominating or appoint- 
 ing officer, nor any question in any form of application 
 or in any examination, shall be framed so as to elicit, and no 
 answer shall be given so as to disclose, any information what- 
 soever concerning such opinions or affiliations ; and no applica- 
 tion or recommendation involving any such disclosure shall be 
 received, filed or considered. 
 
 4. No person in the City Service shall use his official authority 
 or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body ; 
 and no discrimination shall be exercised, promised or threatened 
 by any such person in favor of or against any applicant, officer or 
 employee in the Classified Service because of his political opin- 
 ions or affiliations, or because he has declined to contribute to any 
 political fund or to render any political service. 
 
 5. No person shall be appointed to or employed in any position 
 in the Classified Service under any title or designation not appro- 
 priate to the duties he is regularly to perform, and no person in the 
 said service shall be transferred to or, unless under express authority 
 of law, assigned to perform the duties of, any position subject to 
 competitive examination, except in accordance with Rule XIV 
 or with Clause 13 of Rule XIX.
 
 6. The violation by any person in the City Service of any pro- 
 vision of the Civil Service Law or of these rules, shall be con- 
 sidered sufficient cause for the removal of such person. 
 
 Rule III. 
 
 ORGANIZATION AND POWERS OF THE COMMISSION. 
 
 1. The Municipal Civil Service Commission shall have author- 
 ity to prescribe such regulations for the instruction of its officers 
 and for the execution of these rules as may not be inconsistent 
 therewith, and, wherever practicable, shall prescribe blank forms 
 for all applications, certificates, reports, records and returns re- 
 quired thereunder. The Commission shall have authority to 
 examine at any time, either directly or through its Secretary or 
 Examiners, such books, records or papers, filed in any city de- 
 partment or office as have any bearing on the operation of the 
 Civil Service Law or of these rules, and may, in the course of any 
 investigation it may make under the authority conferred by the 
 City Charter, require the production of such books, records or 
 papers, or the attendance of officers or employees as witnesses, 
 at its own office, or other place of meeting. The failure of any 
 person in the City Service to produce with reasonable promptness 
 such books, papers or records, or to give testimony in any such 
 investigation, when called upon to do so, shall be considered suffi- 
 cient cause for the removal of such person. 
 
 2. The Commission shall choose from its own membership a 
 President, who shall serve during its pleasure, and who, subject to 
 the directions of the Commission, shall have such general authority 
 and responsibility in the administration of these rules as shall not 
 be inconsistent with the powers reserved to the Commission by the 
 Civil Service Law or by these rules, or vested directly in some other 
 officer. The Commission may appoint a Secretary, an Assistant 
 Secretary, a Chief Examiner and such examiners, clerks and others 
 as the efficiency of its work may require.
 
 3. Those examiners who are permanently and continuously 
 employed as such shall constitute a Board, of which the Chief Ex- 
 aminer shall be Chairman, for the discussion of methods of exam- 
 ination and rating, and of such other matters as the Commission 
 may refer to them. The Commission may, whenever necessary, 
 secure the assistance of experts in an examination of a special or 
 technical character. An examination of candidates for the position 
 of Civil Service Examiner shall be conducted by the Commission or 
 by experts employed therefor; but no person shall at any time be 
 employed as an examiner for positions in the Competitive Class 
 who is a public officer, other than a Notary Public or a Commis- 
 sioner of Deeds, or who is employed in any other department of 
 the city government 
 
 4. Public notice shall be given by the Commission, through 
 advertisement in the " City Record " for not less than three days, 
 and a public hearing shall be allowed, on the request of any inter- 
 ested party, in advance of any amendment of these rules, or in 
 advance of any amendment of the Classification by force of which 
 any position shall be subjected to, or exempted from competitive 
 examination. 
 
 Rule IT. 
 
 CLASSIFICATION. 
 
 I The Classified Service shall be arranged in four general 
 classes which shall be known, respectively, as the EXEMPT, the 
 COMPETITIVE, the NON-COMPETITIVE and the LABOR Class. 
 
 2. The positions in each of the aforesaid classes shall be those 
 specifically designated, under the head of each, in the appended 
 Classification; except that all positions, whether now existing or 
 hereafter created, of whatever functions, designations or compensa- 
 tion, the titles of which are not so designated, shall be deemed to 
 be in the Competitive Class. 
 
 3. The Competitive Class and the Labor Class shall be sub- 
 divided, for the purposes of these rules, as hereinafter provided.
 
 Rule V. 
 
 THE EXEMPT CLASS. 
 
 1. Appointments to positions in the Exempt Class may be 
 made without examination; but the appointing officer shall in 
 each case submit to the Commission, in such form as the Commis- 
 sion shall prescribe, a certificate showing (a) the title of the position; 
 (b) the full name and residence of the appointee; (c) the place of his 
 residence during the five years immediately preceding appointment; 
 (d) his previous appointments, and periods of service, if any, in the 
 public service; and (e) his qualifications for the office or position to 
 be filled. 
 
 The Commission may accept such certificate, if it be in accord- 
 ance with this rule, as a notice of appointment, to take effect on 
 the date of its receipt. 
 
 2. Not more than one appointment shall be made to or under 
 the title of any office or position in the Exempt Class unless a 
 different number is specifically mentioned in the Classification. 
 
 Rule VI. 
 
 THE COMPETITIVE CLASS. 
 
 1. Appointments shall be made to or employment shall be 
 given in positions in the Competitive Class that are not filled 
 through promotion, transfer, reduction or reinstatement, by selec- 
 tion, in the manner hereinafter provided, from among those per- 
 sons graded highest on the most nearly appropriate eligible list 
 resulting from open competitive examination ; except as provided 
 by Rule XII. 
 
 2. For the purposes of^such examinations, and of regulated 
 promotion where practicable, the Competitive Class shall be sub- 
 divided as follows : 
 
 PART I. All positions, of whatever function, description or compensation, 
 not included in any of the subdivisions following to be known as the 
 "Ungraded Service";
 
 PART II. Positions of a clerical nature to be known as the " Clerical 
 Service " ; 
 
 PART III. The uniformed forces of the Police Department, excepting 
 doormen, matrons and surgeons to be known as the " Police Service " ; 
 
 PART IV. The uniformed forces of the Fire Department to be known as 
 the " Fire Service " ; 
 
 PART V. The uniformed forces of the Department of Correction to be 
 known as the " Prison Service " ; 
 
 PART VI. The uniformed forces of the Department of Street Cleaning to 
 be known as the " Street Cleaning Service " ; and 
 
 PART VII. Positions requiring knowledge of civil engineering to be known 
 as the " Engineer Service." 
 
 3. The positions in the foregoing Parts, except Part I, shall, for 
 purposes of promotion, be arranged in grades, which, so far as they 
 shall have been established, shall be the grades fixed by law or 
 ordinance, and which shall be as designated in the Classification. 
 
 The positions included in each subdivision, and in each grade, 
 shall be those designated under the head of each in the Classifi- 
 cation. 
 
 4. Whenever it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commission 
 to be practicable, and in the interest of good administration, to 
 grade, for purposes of promotion, positions or groups of positions 
 not previously graded, the Commission shall, by such amendment 
 of the rules as may be necessary, establish a new subdivision, 
 embodying such grades, under such general head as it may deem 
 appropriate. 
 
 5. The titles of positions in the Competitive Class as set forth 
 in the Classification are descriptive of the duties and functions 
 attaching generally to such positions, or to groups of positions of 
 similar or corresponding character, and not necessarily to particu- 
 lar positions. The titles appearing on the official roster and on 
 pay-rolls shall, so far as practicable, conform to those of the 
 Classification, and the Commission, to meet this requirement, 
 may at any time authorize a change in a roster title, if such 
 change be consistent with the rules governing transfer or promo- 
 tion. To define more exactly the duties of particular positions, or 
 to fix such positions in the peculiar organization of a department 
 or office, appropriate sub-titles, or " office titles " may be em- 
 ployed, in the discretion of the head of such department or office 
 or of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment; but such sub-titles 
 need not appear either on the roster or on any pay-roll.
 
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 6. Examinations for positions in the Competitive Class shall 
 be held and eligible lists therefor shall be established, only under 
 titles designated in the Classification ; except where it is shown 
 that the qualifications required for a particular position are of a 
 peculiar or unusual character, to which no classified title is appli- 
 cable ; the Commission, in such case, may hold a special examina- 
 tion for appointment to such position, but shall state in its 
 minutes and in its annual report the reasons for which each such 
 special examination is held. 
 
 Original appointments, in a graded service, shall be made, in 
 each case, to positions of the lowest grade established in the depart- 
 ment, office or institution in which such appointments occur; except 
 where it is found to be not practicable to fill a vacancy or vacancies 
 in a higher grade through promotion. 
 
 The Commission may hold examinations for designated grades 
 of a position in a graded service to secure eligibles for vacancies 
 therein that it is not practicable to fill through promotion; or for 
 a designated compensation or range of compensation under the 
 title of any position in the ungraded service, or in the engineer 
 service, that it is not practicable to fill by selection from an existing 
 list; but the difference, in such latter case, between the compensation 
 so designated and the compensation attaching to a list already in 
 force, under the same title, shall in no case be less than three hun- 
 dred dollars. 
 
 Rule VII. 
 
 COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS. 
 
 I. The Commission shall hold examinations for appointment 
 to positions in the Competitive Class, and shall fix the dates there- 
 for and the conditions thereof, whenever necessary, to meet or to- 
 anticipate the needs of the City Service. 
 
 So far as practicable, examinations for admission to positions 
 in a graded service shall be held periodically, and the dates thereof
 
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 shall be published at the beginning of each year, with such informa- 
 tion with reference to the conditions of each as can be given. 
 
 2. All such examinations, whether previously scheduled or 
 otherwise, shall be advertised, for at least two weeks prior to th 
 final date for the receipt of applications therefor, daily in the " City 
 Record," not less than twice a week in at least four of the prin- 
 cipal daily newspapers and, where the position to be filled is pro- 
 fessional or technical, once or oftener in one or more technical 
 journals devoted to such profession or trade. Such examinations 
 shall also be announced at least two weeks prior to the date there- 
 for in notices posted conspicuously at the offices of the Commis- 
 sion, the City Hall, the Borough Halls, and at such other places as 
 the Commission may deem proper. 
 
 In each case such advertisement in the " City Record," or 
 notice so posted, shall set forth (a) the title of the position; (6) 
 the grade, if in a graded service ; (c) the time and place of examina- 
 tion; (d) the subjects of examination, in detail, with the weight 
 given to each ; (e) such preliminary or special qualifications as 
 may be required by law or by the appointing officer, with the 
 approval of the Commission, in respect to age, residence, physical 
 fitness, previous experience or training, or other particulars ; (f) 
 the number of vacancies existing, so far as known, or likely to 
 exist within a year, that will be filled by appointment from the 
 eligible list to be formed ; (g) the compensation or range of com- 
 pensation to be paid; (K) the date upon which the receipt of appli- 
 cations will close, and (t) such other information as the Commission 
 may deem pertinent or necessary. 
 
 Such advertisement in other newspapers or periodicals shall, 
 where practicable, set forth the same particulars, and shall at 
 least set forth the title of the position, the time and place of the 
 examination and its subjects, and shall then refer applicants to 
 the " City Record," or to the posted notices, for further details. 
 
 3. Every examination, except for the position of Civil Service 
 Examiner, shall be under the responsible direction of the Chief 
 Examiner, who shall consult, when necessary, with appointing 
 officers concerning the qualifications required for particular posi- 
 tions; but such examinations shall be free from the influence or 
 participation, in any manner, either of the appointing officer or of 
 any person other than the Commission or its designated officers or 
 employees.
 
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 4. The subjects of examination and the relative weight given 
 to each, where not fixed by these rules or by regulation, shall be 
 fixed by the Chief Examiner, subject to the direction of the 
 Commission. 
 
 The Chief Examiner shall assign the examiners for a given 
 examination, or for a given subject, except where experts are 
 employed, and all written questions prepared by such examiners 
 or experts shall be placed in his custody in advance of such exam- 
 ination. Such questions shall be printed, from type or other pro- 
 cess, under his immediate supervision and, unless relieved by the 
 Commission, he shall be responsible for their safe-keeping. So 
 far as practicable such printing shall be done on the day of exam- 
 ination. 
 
 5. The examinations shall be practical in their character and 
 shall relate to such matters as will test fairly and adequately the 
 relative fitness and capacity of the persons to be examined for the 
 discharge of the duties of the service, or of the position, into 
 which they seek to enter. For positions of a designated grade 
 or compensation they shall vary in strictness as the grade or the 
 amount of compensation advances. 
 
 6. Whenever, in the judgment of the Commission, physical 
 qualifications are requisite, candidates shall be required to pass a 
 physical examination, and be certified as qualified in such respect, 
 either before admission to examination, or before record on the 
 proper eligible list, or before certification for appointment, as the 
 Commission may announce. 
 
 Where the duties of any classified position are of a character 
 requiring the appointment of persons within particular limitations 
 of age the Commission may, subject to the provisions of the Civil 
 Service Law relating to veterans, fix such limitation by Regulation. 
 
 7. In advance of examination for a position the duties of 
 which are scientific, professional or technical, candidates shall be 
 required to present evidences of the special education or prelimi- 
 nary training they have had tending to qualify them for such 
 position; and the Commission may also, if in its judgment, fitness 
 for such position demands, require, as a condition of examination, 
 evidence of practical experience for a satisfactory term, in such 
 service, profession, art or trade. 
 
 Training and experience, of a character tending to show pe-
 
 
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 culiar and especial fitness for the position examined for, may be 
 rated as a fixed subject of examination, but a candidate in stating 
 such training and experience shall be required to give references 
 through which such statements may be satisfactorily verified. 
 
 8. Where the position to be filled involves fiduciary responsi- 
 bility the appointing officer, where otherwise permitted by law, 
 may require a candidate to furnish a bond or other security as a 
 condition precedent to appointment and shall notify the Commis- 
 sion of the amount and necessary details thereof. The Commission, 
 in such case, shall state in the announcement of the examination, 
 that the candidate must be prepared to furnish such bond or 
 security if called upon to do so. 
 
 9. All examinations shall be in writing, except such as relate 
 to physical qualities, and except as herein otherwise provided. 
 Whenever oral questioning is prescribed, as part of any scheme 
 of examination, so. far as practicable a stenographic record of 
 such oral questions and of the answers thereto shall be filed with 
 the papers of the candidate. All papers upon which examinations 
 are to be written shall be furnished by the Commission and shall 
 bear some suitable official endorsement, stamp or mark. 
 
 10. At the time of an examination a copy of those regulations 
 that govern the conduct thereof shall be furnished in advance to 
 each competitor. Before proceeding each competitor shall then 
 be required to fill out a declaration sheet, giving his name and 
 address, the names of his certifiers, the names and present addresses 
 of his employers, if any, during the preceding five years, and such 
 other information as the Regulations may require, and shall seal 
 the same in an envelope provided for the purpose. The envelope 
 and the papers of the candidate, as they are completed, shall be 
 marked with an identical number. At the close of the examination 
 the envelopes shall be placed in a sealed package in the custody of 
 the Chief Examiner, to be opened, for the identification of papers, 
 only at the conclusion of the marking thereof. Any paper bearing 
 the name of the candidate, or any other identifying mark, shall be 
 rejected, and the specific announcement of such fact shall be made 
 at the commencement of the examination. 
 
 n. No candidate shall be granted a second or special examina- 
 tion or. any second or special trial or test, either written or physical. 
 preliminary to or in connection with any examination held here-
 
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 under; unless it be shown to the satisfaction of the Commission 
 that his failure to appear for, or to gain admission to, or to com- 
 plete such examination or test, was due to a manifest error or mis- 
 take for which the Commission is responsible, the nature of which 
 shall be set forth in its minutes, or that such failure was due to 
 compulsory attendance before any Court or other public authority 
 having the power to compel such attendance. 
 
 12. No person who has entered any examination for appoint- 
 ment to a competitive position and failed therein or who has 
 withdrawn therefrom, shall be admitted within nine months from 
 the date of such examination to^ a new examination for the same 
 position. 
 
 For reasons to be set forth in its minutes, this provision may 
 be waived by the Commission, with relation to all such candidates 
 in a given examination but not to any individual. 
 
 13. No person shall be admitted to an examination whose ap- 
 plication therefor has not been presented and accepted under the 
 conditions of Rule VIII. 
 
 14. The Commission may refuse to examine or, after, examina- 
 tion, to certify, an applicant who is found to lack any of the estab- 
 lished preliminary requirements for the examination or position 
 for which he applies ; or who is found physically unfit to perform 
 the duties attaching to such position, or who is addicted to the 
 habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess ; or who has been 
 guilty of a crime or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful con- 
 duct ; or who has within two years been dismissed from the public 
 service for delinquency or misconduct ; or who has intentionally 
 made a false statement of any material fact, or practiced or at- 
 tempted to practice any deception or fraud in his application, or 
 in his examination, or in securing his eligibility or appointment. 
 
 Where action is taken under this clause the name of the person 
 affected, if it be upon any list, shall, after due notice to such person, 
 and an opportunity to be heard if he so desires, be stricken from 
 such list.
 
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 Rule VIII. 
 
 FILING OF APPLICATIONS. 
 
 1. Applications for examination for positions in the Competitive 
 Class shall be addressed to the Commission on a prescribed form, 
 in the handwriting of the applicant, and accompanied by such 
 certificates or other evidences as to citizenship, character, condi- 
 tion of health, education, previous employment, training and fit- 
 ness as the Commission may require. 
 
 The statements of the applicant in these particulars shall be 
 made under oath, properly attested. 
 
 2. Every application shall bear the certificate of four reputable 
 citizens, whose residences or places of business are within the 
 City of New York, to the effect that they have personally 
 known the applicant for not less than one year, that they have 
 read his statements and believe them to be correct, and that 
 they will, upon request, give such further facts concerning him 
 as they may possess either for the files of the Commission or for 
 the information of appointing officers. 
 
 If the previous occupation or employment of the applicant has 
 been wholly or in part outside the City of New York not more 
 than two of the said certificates may be accepted, in the discre- 
 tion of the Commission, from persons resident or engaged in business 
 elsewhere ; but no such certificate shall be accepted from a near rela- 
 tive of the applicant, or from any person the character of whose 
 business, in the judgment of the Commission, may disqualify him 
 as a fit voucher. 
 
 3. The Commission shall, by regulation or otherwise, fix the 
 limits of time between which applications for a given examination 
 shall be presented ; but such period shall in no case be less than two 
 weeks, and there shall be not less than five days between the last 
 date for the presentation of applications and the date of examina- 
 tion. 
 
 No application shall be accepted from any person who has failed 
 to fill out properly the application form, or to furnish the required 
 certificates or other preliminary evidences of fitness; or who is 
 barred by any of the provisions of Clause 3 of Rule II or of Clause 
 14 of Rule VII; or who has already on file an application entitling 
 him to enter the examination sought.
 
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 4. An application presented within the prescribed limits of time, 
 but found to be defective, shall be suspended, and notification shall 
 be given to the applicant of the particulars in which it requires 
 correction. Such an application shall be accepted if corrected and 
 returned before the date of examination, but not otherwise. 
 
 5. Applications when presented shall be dated, numbered and 
 recorded in the order of their receipt. An application that has been 
 accepted and filed shall not be returned for any reason to the appli- 
 cant. 
 
 6. A person claiming rights of preference as a veteran shall file, 
 with his application, proof of such veteranship and of his residence 
 within the State of New York. 
 
 7. Application forms shall be furnished to intending applicants, 
 upon personal or written request, at the office of the Commission, 
 and shall be procurable there only. 
 
 Rule IX. 
 
 MARKING AND RATING. 
 
 
 
 1. The examination papers shall be rated, in each case, by at 
 least two examiners assigned therefor, who shall review them sepa- 
 rately and after such rating is completed shall affix to each a 
 mark expressing the average of their judgment, attested by their 
 respective signatures or initials. The marking shall be strictly 
 comparative and according to such standards of proficiency as the 
 needs of the service may require. Each subject shall be marked 
 upon a scale of 100, which shall represent the maximum possible 
 attainment. 
 
 2. Every candidate who receives a general average marking 
 of not less than 70 per cent., and who has received not less than 
 20 per cent, in any required subject, or not less than 75 per cent, 
 in any technical subject, when the examination is for a position of 
 scientific, professional or technical nature, shall be eligible for 
 certification and appointment in the manner, and under the con- 
 ditions, hereinafter prescribed.
 
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 3. Where the Chief Examiner is satisfied, through investiga- 
 tion made under his direction, or otherwise, that the general char- 
 acter or the reputation of a candidate whose papers have been 
 marked is not good, or that he is debarred by any of the provi- 
 sions of Clause 14 of Rule VII, the name of such candidate 
 shall not be placed on any eligible list ; but all action under this 
 clause shall be reported in writing, with the reasons therefor, to 
 the Commission and shall be subject to the Commission's ap- 
 proval. The burden of proof of good character shall be upon 
 the candidate who may, where doubt exists, be required to furnish 
 evidence thereof additional to the certificates required at the time 
 of his application. 
 
 4. The Secretary, as early as practicable after the completion 
 of an examination, shall notify each candidate therein of the rating 
 he has received, and, if such rating be above the required minimum, 
 of his comparative standing. He shall likewise notify any candidate 
 who, though admitted to the examination, has been rejected for 
 reasons other than failure to receive the required minimum, stating 
 such reasons specifically. Any candidate receiving any such notice 
 may personally inspect his examination papers, at any time, during 
 the office hours of the Commission, and in the presence of such 
 officer or employee as the Commission from time to time may 
 designate. 
 
 5. No examination paper or any part thereof, and no record of 
 the results of a physical test, or any other record or statement rated 
 as part of an examination, or in connection therewith, shall be 
 subject to review, alteration or rerating after the marks of the 
 examiners have been registered or attested as required hereunder; 
 except that the Commission, at any time within a year from the 
 date of the certification of an examination, may correct any mani- 
 fest error or mistake of marking or rating appearing in any such 
 paper or record, the nature of which it shall set forth in its minutes ; 
 such correction, in any case, to be without prejudice, to the status 
 of any person previously appointed as a result of such examination.
 
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 Hule X. 
 
 ELIGIBLE' LISTS. 
 
 1. The results of each examination shall be reported by the Chief 
 Examiner to the Secretary, who shall enter the names of the persons 
 passing, in the order of their average rating, on the proper list of 
 eligibles; provided that the names of veterans so passing shall be 
 entered, in the order of average rating, at the head of such list. The 
 date of the establishment of a list shall be the date of such report. 
 
 2. When two or more eligibles on a list have the same average 
 rating, preference in certification shall be determined by the order 
 in which their applications were filed, or, if the examination be for 
 promotion, by the order of their original appointment in the depart- 
 ment or other division of the service in which the promotion occurs. 
 
 3. The term of an eligible list shall be not less than one year nor 
 more than four years from the date of its establishment. An eligible 
 list that has been in force for one year, except for the position of 
 temporary clerk, shall terminate whenever a new list is established 
 under the same title, and, in case of a graded position, for the same 
 grade or grades. 
 
 Persons whose names appear on a list about to be terminated 
 shall be notified of the new examination, in the same manner that 
 applicants therefor are notified, and shall be informed that, upon 
 the establishment of the new list, their original eligibility shall cease. 
 
 4. All eligible lists shall be published, as early as may be prac- 
 ticable after their establishment, in the " City Record." 
 
 Rule XI. 
 
 CERTIFICATION AND APPOINTMENT. 
 
 i. Selections for appointment to all positions in the Competitive 
 Class not filled by promotion, reduction, transfer or reinstatement 
 shall, except as provided in Rule XII, be made in the following 
 manner: 
 
 The appointing officer shall notify the Commission of the title 
 of the position, the duties to be performed and the compensation to 
 be paid. The Commission shall thereupon certify to such appointing 
 officer from the eligible list most nearly appropriate to such position,
 
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 and for the grade thereof, if in a graded service, the three names 
 at the head thereof; provided that, except in the case of a veteran, 
 no such name shall be certified more than three times to the same 
 appointing officer for the same or a similar position, unless at such 
 officer's request. The relative rating of each candidate shall be 
 stated in the certification, and, if the appointing officer requests, 
 the application and examination papers of each shall be submitted 
 (or his inspection, at the office of the Commission. Certification 
 shall be made without regard to sex unless sex is specified in the 
 requisition. 
 
 The appointing officer shaft make selection, with reference solely 
 to merit and fitness, from the three names certified, unless objection 
 shall be made, and sustained by the Commission, to one or more of 
 the persons named, fqr any of the reasons stated in paragraph 14 
 of Rule VII, in which case the certification of three names shall 
 be completed by addition of the name or names next following 
 upon the eligible list. If there be more than one vacancy to be 
 filled names shall be certified and selection shall be made for each 
 of such vacancies in the same manner. 
 
 2. The person selected shall be duly notified by the appointing 
 officer, and, upon accepting and reporting for duty, shall receive 
 from such officer a certificate of appointment for a probationary 
 period of three months; except in the Police or the Fire Service, 
 where such period shall be one month. If his conduct or capacity 
 on probation be unsatisfactory to the appointing officer the proba- 
 tioner shall be notified in writing that at the end of such period he 
 shall, for that reason, not be retained; his retention in the service 
 otherwise shall be equivalent to permanent appointment. 
 
 3. A probationer separated from the service for any reason other 
 than fault or delinquency shall be. restored to the eligible list from 
 which he was selected, with the same relative standing, and the 
 time during which he has actually served shall be deducted from 
 the period of probation if he be again selected by the same appoint- 
 ing officer. When two or. more persons selected from the same 
 eligible list are serving as probationers under the same appointing 
 officer, and a reduction of force is necessary, they shall be preferred 
 for retention in the order of their original standing on such list. 
 
 4. The name of any person certified as eligible for a probationary 
 appointment who shall decline such appointment shall be stricken
 
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 from the list from which such certification is made, unless such 
 declination be for one of the following reasons : 
 
 (a) Residence in a borough other than that in which the duties 
 are to be performed; (b) insufficiency of the compensation offered, 
 if such compensation be lower than the amount or the maximum 
 amount stated in the announcement of examination; or (c) tempo- 
 rary inability, physical or otherwise, the evidences of which must 
 be acceptable to and approved by the Commission and set forth in 
 its minutes. 
 
 The failure of an eligible person to respond within four' days to 
 an offer of appointment sent to his post-office address shall be 
 considered a declination. 
 
 An eligible who has declined appointment by reason of the 
 insufficiency of the compensation offered shall not be again certified 
 for a position at the same or any less compensation, and whenever 
 one or more eligibles shall have declined appointment to any posi- 
 tion for such reason, and an eligible whose standing is lower is 
 appointed thereto, the compensation of such appointee shall not be 
 increased within one year thereafter beyond the amount offered to 
 any person so declining. 
 
 On notification from an appointing officer that a person named 
 in a certification has declined appointment, and on receipt from 
 such officer of such declination in writing, or of evidence of the 
 failure of such person to respond to a notice properly sent, such 
 certification shall be completed by addition of the name of the eligible 
 next in order. 
 
 5. No certification shall remain in force for a longer period than 
 fifteen days. Until such certification has been exhausted or termi- 
 nated no new certification shall be made for the same position, but 
 the names of the persons certified may be certified for any similar 
 position. 
 
 6. Every person selected for appointment shall be required ta 
 fill out and sign, in the presence of the appointing officer or his 
 representative, an identification sheet, repeating the essential facts 
 stated by him at the time of examination, which shall be forwarded 
 to the Commission with the notice of appointment and filed with 
 the appointee's application papers. 
 
 If a person who is not entitled to certification is certified and 
 appointed, his appointment, upon due notification from the Com- 
 mission to the appointing officer, shall be revoked.
 
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 Rule XII. 
 
 TEMPORARY AND EXCEPTIONAL APPOINTMENTS. 
 
 1. When services are to be rendered of a temporary character, and 
 for a limited period, the appointing officer shall inform the Commis- 
 sion, stating the duration of such period, the rate of compensation and 
 other conditions of employment, and may select for such employ- 
 ment one of the first three persons on the appropriate eligible 
 list who, after due notice of the conditions, are willing to accept 
 certification therefor; but successive temporary appointments shall 
 not be made under this clause, nor shall any person, be eligible to 
 temporary apointment if he has served under either a temporary or 
 a provisional appointment in the same department within the pre- 
 vious three months. Neither acceptance nor declination of any 
 such temporary employment shall affect the right of an eligible to 
 continued certification for permanent appointment; nor shall 
 acceptance confer upon such eligible any of the rights of promotion, 
 transfer or reinstatement. 
 
 2. The Commission shall establish and maintain a separate 
 eligible list of persons willing to accept temporary employment as 
 clerks, under the conditions of the preceding clause. If the appoint- 
 ing officer shall certify that the services of a person appointed from 
 such list have been satisfactory the name of such person shall, at 
 the termination of such temporary employment, be placed on a 
 preferred list, from which he shall be eligible for re-employment 
 for any similar service, under the conditions of Clause i of Rule XIII. 
 
 When a sufficient number of temporary clerks cannot be secured 
 from such list, or from any other appropriate list, additional clerks 
 may be employed without examination, in the following cases ; but 
 the appointing officer in each such case shall report to the Commis- 
 sion the names of the persons so employed, the character of their 
 previous occupation, the terms of their employment by him and the 
 rate of compensation to be paid them: 
 
 (a) In the office of the Receiver of Taxes, Department of Finance, for the 
 period between September i and January I of each year; 
 
 (&) In the office of the Collector of Assessments and Arrears, Department 
 of Finance, for the period between August 15 and December 15 of each year; 
 
 (c) In the office of the Registrar of Water Rates, Department of Water 
 Supply, Gas and Electricity, for the period between May i and August I of 
 each year;
 
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 (d) In the office of the Bureau of Elections, at times of election or regis- 
 tration, for a period of not exceeding forty days. 
 
 3. Whenever there are urgent reasons for filling a vacancy in 
 any permanent position in the Competitive Class, and there is no 
 existing appropriate eligible list, the appointing officer may nomi- 
 nate a person to the Commission for non-competitive examination, 
 and if such nominee shall be certified by the Chief Examiner as 
 qualified, after such examination, he may be appointed, provision- 
 ally, to fill such vacancy until an appropriate eligible list is estab- 
 lished. The competitive examination for such position shall, in 
 such case, be ordered, in the manner provided by Rule VII, for a 
 date not later than three weeks from the date of such provisional 
 appointment, and the papers in such examination shall be marked 
 in advance of other papers in the hands of the examiners. Such 
 provisional appointment shall not continue for more than ten days 
 after an appropriate list has been established, nor for a longer 
 period, in any case, than two months; nor shall successive provi- 
 sional appointments be made to the same position under this 
 provision. 
 
 4. Where there is a vacancy of an emergency character in a 
 position in the competitive class, and it is not practicable either to 
 secure a person by certification from an eligible list or to conduct 
 a non-competitive examination in the absence of such a list in time 
 to meet such emergency, an appointment may be made without 
 certification or examination, subject to the subsequent approval of 
 the Commission, and for a period not exceeding one week, except 
 that in the Department of Bridges Inspectors of Masonry may be 
 so appointed for caisson work for a period not exceeding fifteen 
 days; but successive appointments shall not be made under this 
 provision. 
 
 5. Where there is a vacancy in any position in the Competitive 
 Class demanding peculiar and exceptional qualifications of a scien- 
 tific, professional or educational character, and upon satisfactory 
 evidence that for specified reasons competition in such special case 
 is not practicable, and that the position can best be filled by the 
 selection of some designated person of high and recognized attain- 
 ments in such qualities, the Commission may suspend the provisions 
 of the rules requiring competition in such case ; but no such suspen- 
 sion shall be general in its application to such position.
 
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 6. The Commission may, by resolution, except from competitive 
 examination any person engaged in private business who shall 
 render any professional, scientific, technical or expert service of an 
 occasional and exceptional character to any city officer, and the 
 amount of whose compensation in any one year shall not exceed 
 $250; provided that such limitation of compensation shall not apply 
 to any person so employed by the Mayor or Corporation Counsel; 
 and provided further, that the Commission may, by resolution, 
 approved by the Mayor and the State Civil Service Commission, 
 suspend such limitation in other cases. 
 
 7. The Commission may, by resolution, except from competitive 
 examination any person who is to be appointed for service in a 
 locality outside the City of New York who is a resident of such 
 locality, arM when appointment for such service from an eligible list 
 is found to be not practicable; but no such person shall be eligible 
 for transfer or assignment to work within the city. 
 
 8. All exceptions from competitive examination under this rule, 
 with the circumstances thereof, shall be stated by the Commission 
 in its annual report. 
 
 Rule XIII. 
 
 SUSPENSION AND REINSTATEMENT. 
 
 i. Whenever any permanent position in the Competitive Class 
 is abolished or made unnecessary, or whenever the number of posi- 
 tions of a certain character is reduced, the person or persons legally 
 holding such positions shall be deemed to be suspended without 
 pay, and the names of such persons shall, on due notification from 
 the appointing officer, be placed by the Commission on a special 
 list, under such classified title and corresponding to such competi- 
 tive eligible list as, in the judgment of the Commission, most nearly 
 cover the class of duties performed by such persons in the position 
 from which suspension is made. For a period of one year from the 
 date of suspension such persons shall be entitled to reinstatement in 
 any position, or any grade of such position, for which certification 
 from such corresponding eligible list might be made, and the Secre- 
 tary shall certify their names to the proper appointing officer as
 
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 entitled to such reinstatment, in the order of the dates of their 
 original appointment to the Classified Service, before certification 
 is made from such corresponding eligible list for any such vacancy; 
 provided that such persons shall- be selected for certification, first, 
 for a position the same as that from which suspension was made, if 
 the vacancy exists in such a position, and second, for corresponding 
 or similar positions. 
 
 A person so certified who declines to accept a reinstatement, 
 except for one of the reasons and under the conditions stated in sub- 
 division 4 of Rule XI, shall be considered to be permanently sepa- 
 rated from the service. 
 
 2. The provisions of the foregoing clause shall not apply to any 
 person who resigns his position or who is suspended or removed 
 therefrom for any reason other than those therein specified. Leaves 
 of absence without pay may be granted by an appointing officer, 
 without conflict with such provisions, where such absence does not 
 exceed thirty days, or in case of sickness six months; but the Com- 
 mission, in exceptional cases, the circumstances of which shall be 
 stated in its minutes and in its annual report, may extend such 
 periods. Absence without leave for a period of five days, unless it 
 be subsequently shown that such absence was unavoidable, shall be 
 construed as a resignation. 
 
 3. A person who has resigned from a permanent competitive 
 position, or who has been removed or otherwise separated therefrom 
 for any cause other than fault or delinquency on his part, may be 
 reinstated without examination, at any time within one year from 
 the date of such separation, in a vacant position in the same class 
 and grade, provided that for original entrance to such position there 
 is not required by these rules, in the judgment of the Commission, 
 an examination involving tests or qualifications different from or 
 higher than those involved in the examination for appointment to 
 the position formerly held by such person. But no person shall be 
 so reinstated who at any time within a year prior to the date of his 
 separation from the service had been eligible for reinstatement as 
 a suspended employee. 
 
 The Commission may in its discretion extend the period during 
 which reinstatement may be made under this clause where the 
 person seeking reinstatement resigned his position in order to serve
 
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 in the Army or Navy of the United States in time of war, and has 
 received an honorable discharge therefrom. 
 
 4. Upon the written request of an appointing officer, stating the 
 essential facts regarding a reinstatement proposed under the fore- 
 going clause, the Commission will, if such reinstatement be in 
 accordance with law and these rules, issue its certificate to that 
 effect to such officer, but no such reinstatement shall be made or 
 recognized until after the issuance of such certificate. 
 
 Rule XIV. 
 
 TRANSFER. 
 
 1. A person who has been permanently appointed to a position 
 in the Competitive Class may be transferred without examination 
 to" a similar position in such class, or to a position of the same grade 
 thereof, if it be in a graded service, in any other department, office 
 or institution; provided that for original entrance to the position 
 proposed to be filled by transfer there is not required by these rules, 
 in the judgment of the Commission, an examination involving tests 
 or qualifications essentially different from or higher than those 
 required in an examination for original entrance to the position 
 from which transfer is sought ; or provided he shall have passed the 
 examination or obtained a place upon the eligible list in force for 
 such position; and provided further that if such person entered the 
 service without competitive examination, and prior to the require- 
 ment thereof in the case of the position held by him, he shall have 
 served with fidelity for at least three years in such position, or in 
 a similar position. 
 
 2. A person may be transferred from a position in one class to 
 a position in another class, or from a position in any grade of the 
 Competitive Class to a different grade in such class, who has served 
 a year in the position from which transfer is sought, under special 
 authority granted by the Commission, for reasons to be stated in its 
 annual report, and subject to the provisions of Clause I of this 
 rule.
 
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 3. A person who, by transfer or promotion from a competitive 
 position, is holding a position in another class or in another grade, 
 and who has served continuously therein from the date of such 
 transfer or promotion, may be retransferred, without the application 
 of the foregoing restrictions, either to the position originally held 
 by him, or to any position to which transfer could be made there- 
 from. 
 
 4. Upon the written request of an appointing officer, stating the 
 facts with reference to a proposed transfer, accompanied by the 
 consent, also in writing, of the appointing officer from whose juris- 
 diction the transfer is to be made, the Commission will, if such 
 transfer be in accordance with law and the provisions of these rules, 
 issue its certificate to that effect; but no such transfer shall be made 
 or recognized until after the issuance of such certificate. 
 
 Rule XV. 
 
 PROMOTION. 
 
 1. Vacancies in positions above the lowest grade in any Part of 
 the Competitive Class, except Part I, that are not filled by original 
 appointment, transfer, reinstatement or reduction, shall be filled 
 by promotion, based, so far as practicable, on competitive tests. 
 
 2. Examinations for promotion shall be ordered as often as may 
 be necessary to meet or to anticipate the needs of the higher grades, 
 and, so far as practicable, shall be held periodically. Except 
 where otherwise provided by law, such examinations shall be open, 
 in each case, to all persons who shall have served with fidelity for 
 not less than six months in positions of the same group or general 
 character in the grade next lower, in the same department, office 
 or institution; except that, for reasons to be set forth in its minutes, 
 and where permitted by law, the Commission may open such exam- 
 ination to persons in two or more lower grades who shall have 
 served with fidelity for not less than six months in the positions 
 held by them respectively.
 
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 Notice of such examination shall be given by the Secretary to 
 all eligible persons in the grade or grades from which promotion 
 is to be made at least one week in advance of the date thereof. 
 
 3. A position in any of the aforesaid Parts the compensation 
 of which is not identical with that specified in the Classification 
 for any grade of such Part shall, for purposes of promotion, be 
 deemed as of the grade the compensation of which is spepified as 
 next lower than the compensation paid. 
 
 4. No such examination shall be held under any title not desig- 
 nated in the Classification ; except that, for reasons to be stated in 
 its minutes, the Commission may hold an examination under the 
 office title of a position above Grade 4 of the Clerical Service, where 
 the duties to be performed are of a fixed and distinctive character, 
 and where such office title has been in common use for not less 
 than a year. 
 
 5. No person shall be admitted to an examination for promotion 
 who lacks any preliminary qualification for the position to be filled 
 fixed by law, or by these rules or by lawful regulation of his depart- 
 ment, or who may have become ineligible for any of the causes set 
 forth in Clause 14 of Rule VII. 
 
 6. The subjects of rating and the relative weights thereof, in any 
 competitive promotion examination shall be as follows: For 
 seniority of service in the position or grade from which promotion 
 is sought, 20; for comparative conduct and efficiency in previous 
 service in such position or grade, 40; and for written papers on 
 pertinent subjects, 40; provided, that in rating for seniority, where 
 more than one grade is opened, such rating shall be based upon the 
 service of a candidate in all of such grades; and provided further 
 that the maximum term of service in a position or grade to be 
 considered in rating for seniority shall be fifteen years. 
 
 7. To provide a basis of rating for previous service, there shall 
 be kept in each department or office continuous and permanent 
 records of the efficiency, character and conduct of all persons em- 
 ployed in graded positions therein. Such records shall be known 
 as " Efficiency Records," and the entries made therein shall have 
 reference to (a) the quality or degree of excellence of the services 
 or work performed by each such officer or employee; (6) the quan- 
 tity of work performed by him, where such work is of a character 
 permitting definite estimation; (c) his aptitude and capacity for
 
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 initiative; (rf) his punctuality and attendance; and (e) his character 
 and habits, in so far as they affect his efficiency or trustworthiness. 
 Such records shall be established by each officer having the 
 power of appointment to such positions within six months after the 
 taking effect of this rule, and shall be subject to the prior approval 
 of the Commission as to their scope and form. 
 
 8. The entries upon an efficiency record shall be made by the 
 administrative officer most closely in touch with the work of the 
 officer or employee to be rated, who shall be designated, for such 
 purpose, by the appointing officer. On the first days of April and 
 October, respectively, in each year, the appointing officer shall 
 certify and transmit to the Commission a transcript or summary of 
 such record,, indicating, under the appropriate heads, the compara- 
 tive character of the service of each such officer or employee, and 
 specifying all acts or performances in the line of duty, and all 
 rewards, or measures of discipline, that are to the credit or discredit 
 of each; and, whenever the Commission so requires, he shall trans- 
 mit, in advance of a particular examination, a like certification of 
 the full record of each candidate for service and efficiency in the 
 grade or position from which he seeks promotion. The efficiency 
 record shall serve as the basis of rating for that part of the previous 
 service of a candidate that it covers. For periods of service prior 
 to the establishment, or in the absence of, any such record such 
 rating shall be based upon such certificates, covering the several 
 elements of service herein specified, in such form as the Commission 
 may require. 
 
 Whenever, in the judgment of the Chief Examiner, more exact 
 information is required, for the purposes of such rating, than that 
 given in any summary, the original record may be consulted in such 
 case. Such records shall be open either to the Chief Examiner, or 
 to any examiner designated by him; and, at reasonable times, to 
 any officer or employee whose conduct is noted therein. 
 
 9. Whenever there are less than three persons eligible for promo- 
 tion to fill a vacancy in a graded position, and willing to compete 
 therefor, an eligible nominated by the appointing officer may be 
 promoted to the grade next higher upon a statement of the facts 
 to the Commission, and, on passing a non-competitive examination, 
 similar in scope, subjects and preliminary conditions to such exam- 
 ination as would have been prescribed in case of competition.
 
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 10. Whenever a vacancy exists or is anticipated in a position in 
 the Ungraded Service which, in the opinion of the appointing officer, 
 or of the Commission, can be filled satisfactorily by a selection for 
 promotion from among persons holding positions of lower but 
 corresponding character, the Commission may order a competitive 
 examination for such promotion, open to all persons who shall have 
 served with fidelity for not less than six months in such lower posi- 
 tion. 
 
 11. Whenever a vacancy exists or is anticipated in a position in 
 the Ungraded Service, or in the lowest grade of the Street Cleaning 
 Service, which, in the opinion of the Commission, can be filled sat- 
 isfactorily by the promotion of persons employed in a position of 
 lower but corresponding character in the Labor Class, the Commis- 
 sion may, by resolution, order a competitive examination for such 
 promotion open to all persons who have served with fidelity for not 
 less than three years in such lower position. 
 
 The subjects and weights for any examination held under this 
 clause, or the clause preceding, shall be fixed as in the case of an 
 examination for original appointment to the position to be filled; 
 except that due weight shall be given to the elements of seniority 
 and relative efficiency in previous service. 
 
 12. Any person in the Competitive Service who shall have 
 passed an examination for either appointment or promotion cover- 
 ing in its scope a higher grade or compensation than that of the 
 position he holds, shall, if not otherwise disqualified, be eligible for 
 promotion or advancement to such higher grade or compensation 
 without further examination under this Rule. 
 
 13. No recommendation for the promotion of any person in the 
 Classified Service shall be considered by any officer concerned in 
 making promotions unless it shall be made by an officer under 
 whose supervision such person has served; such recommendation 
 by any other person, if made with th'e knowledge and consent of the 
 person to whom it relates, shall be sufficient cause for debarring 
 such person from the promotion proposed, and a repetition of the 
 offense shall be sufficient cause for his removal. 
 
 14. Except as this rule otherwise provides, the conduct of an 
 examination for promotion and the making of selections therefor 
 from any eligible list formed as the result of such examination, shall 
 be governed by the rules relating to original appointment.
 
 Rule XVI. 
 
 REMOVALS. 
 
 1. No person holding a position in the service of the city shall 
 be removed from such position, except in the manner prescribed 
 by the Charter and the Civil Service Law; and the officer charged with 
 the power of removal, in each case, shall transmit to the Commission, 
 with the report of his action required under Rule XX, a copy of 
 the reasons therefor, or of the findings of any trial board or officer, 
 as stated to the person removed, and as filed in the department or 
 office. 
 
 2. No person who is an honorably discharged soldier, sailor or 
 marine, having served as such in the Union Army or Navy during 
 the War of the Rebellion, or in the volunteer army or navy of the 
 United States during the Spanish War, or who is a veteran volun- 
 teer fireman, shall be removed from any position in the Classified 
 Service except in the manner prescribed by section 21 of the Civil 
 Service Law. 
 
 3. The provisions of this rule shall apply to the removal of any 
 person from a graded position by reduction to a position in a lower 
 grade, but shall not apply to a suspension from service for lack of 
 work or reduction of force. 
 
 Rule XVII. 
 
 SPECIAL PROVISIONS AFFECTING THE POLICE AND 
 FIRE SERVICES. 
 
 i. Before admission to an examination for the Police or the 
 Fire Service, each applicant therefor, whose application has been 
 accepted, shall be subjected to medical and physical tests having 
 reference to (a) measurements of weight, height and chest expan- 
 sion and mobility; (6) sight and hearing; (c) habits as to the use of 
 stimulants and narcotics; (d) general organic condition, and 
 (*) previous condition of health. The medical and physical exam- 
 iners shall report to the Commission in writing the results of such
 
 tests, and no applicant shall be admitted to the examination who is 
 not certified by them to be qualified and sound in each of the afore- 
 said particulars. 
 
 2. The minimum relative measurements required shall be as 
 follows : 
 
 FIREMEN. 
 
 Height. 
 
 Weight. 
 
 PATROLMEN. 
 
 Expansion. 
 
 Mobility. 
 
 Expansion. 
 
 Mobility. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3SX " 
 
 2 " 
 
 5 " 7% 
 
 138 " 
 
 33 !4 inches. 
 
 2 inches. 
 
 35 K " 
 
 2^ " 
 
 5 " 8 
 
 140 " 
 
 33^' " 
 
 K " 
 
 36 
 
 2^ " 
 
 5 " 9 
 
 145 
 
 34 " 
 
 2K " 
 
 36 
 
 H " 
 
 5 " 10 
 
 150 " 
 
 34 
 
 2^ " 
 
 36K " 
 
 2% " 
 
 5 " ii " 
 
 155 
 
 34'/2 " 
 
 2M " 
 
 36'A " 
 
 3 " 
 
 6 " o 
 
 160 " 
 
 34'^ " 
 
 3 
 
 37 
 
 3 " 
 
 6 " i 
 
 ,65 " 
 
 35 
 
 3 " 
 
 37 
 
 3 " 
 
 6 " 2 
 
 170 " 
 
 35 " 
 
 3 " 
 
 37 " 
 
 3 
 
 6 " 3 
 
 i?5 
 
 . 35% " 
 
 3 " 
 
 37 
 
 3% " 
 
 6 " 4 
 
 180 " 
 
 35>4 " 
 
 3K " 
 
 37 " 
 
 3% " 
 
 6 " 5 
 
 185 " 
 
 36 
 
 3 1 A " 
 
 3. The subjects of rating in such examination, and the relative 
 weights thereof, shall be as follows: Physical development, 20; 
 strength, 20; experience and previous training, 10; written papers, 
 covering knowledge of the ordinary functions of the state and city 
 governments, information as to city streets and localities, writing 
 from memory the substance of orders communicated orally or other- 
 wise, and such elementary subjects as may be prescribed, 50. 
 
 4. No applicant shall be eligible for appointment whose ascer- 
 tained average on either the physical development, strength, or 
 written tests is less than 70 per cent., or whose general average is 
 less than 70 per cent. 
 
 5. In a competition for promotion in the Police or the Fire 
 Service, the written examination shall cover: the writing of a report 
 to a superior officer on some designated subject; knowledge of the 
 administration, organization and discipline of the Police or the 
 Fire Department; knowledge of the administrative relations of
 
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 such department with .other branches of the city government; 
 knowledge of laws or ordinances relating to Police or Fire 
 duty; knowledge and construction of departmental rules and regula- 
 tions; knowledge of the simple rules of evidence (in the case of the 
 Police Service), and such other pertinent subjects as the Chief 
 Examiner, subject to the direction of the Commission, may 
 prescribe. 
 
 Such written examination shall be of higher and more exhaust- 
 ive character as the grade examined for advances. 
 
 6. No candidate shall be eligible for promotion whose ascer- 
 tained general average is less than 80 per cent. 
 
 7. Whenever a position in either the Police or the Fire Service 
 to which promotion is sought calls for qualifications of a special or 
 technical character, the Chief Examiner may, subject to the direction 
 of the Commission, fix such subjects therefor as may be appropriate, 
 in addition to those required for the promotion in grade; but such 
 subjects shall conform as nearly as possible to those set for similar 
 positions in other Parts of the Competitive Class. 
 
 8. The position of engineer of steamer, in Grade I of the Fire 
 Service, shall be filled by special competitive examination, open 
 to all firejnen of the First Grade as defined by section 740 of the 
 City Charter. 
 
 9. In every particular not herein specified appointments or pro- 
 motions in the Police or the Fire Service are subject to the general 
 provisions of these rules. 
 
 Rule Will. 
 
 THE NON-COMPETITIVE CLASS. 
 
 1. The positions in the Non-Competitive Class shall be those of 
 a minor nature, in the city institutions or elsewhere, that it is not 
 practicable to fill either through competition or through registration 
 under the provisions of Rule XIX, and that are specifically desig- 
 nated in the Classification. 
 
 2. In each department or institution where there are positions 
 in the Non-Competitive Class there shall be a Board of Examiners
 
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 for such positions, composed of not less than three superior officers 
 or employees of such department or institution, who shall be desig- 
 nated by the appointing officer therein, subject to confirmation by 
 the Commission. 
 
 A vacancy in any position in the said Class may be filled by the 
 appointment of any person who, upon nomination by the appoint- 
 ing officer to such Board of Examiners, and upon appropriate non- 
 competitive examination, shall be certified by such Board to be 
 qualified to perform the duties of such position. In any department 
 or institution having a number of such employees in the same class 
 of work, the appointing officer, in order to provide a list permitting 
 immediate selection, in case of necessity, may nominate for exam- 
 ination more than one person, but selection shall be made, in such 
 a case, in the order of the placing of the names upon such list. 
 
 3. Such examinations shall be conducted so as to show (a) that 
 the applicant is free from any physical defect likely to interfere 
 with the proper discharge of his duties; (6) that his general char- 
 acter and habits are satisfactory, and (c) that he possesses the requi- 
 site knowledge and ability, or that he is qualified by experience, to 
 discharge his duties efficiently and intelligently. 
 
 To preserve as far as practicable a uniform standard of qualifi- 
 cations for like positions in different departments the Commission, 
 after consultation with the appointing officer concerned, may pre- 
 scribe uniform conditions and tests of fitness for the guidance and 
 government of the examiners. 
 
 4. For the position of trained nurse, when the applicant is a 
 registered nurse, under chapter 293 of the Laws of 1903, a certifi- 
 cate of such registry may, when presented, be accepted in lieu of the 
 examination required herein, and for the position of master, mate 
 
 -or pilot, the certificate or license of the United States Steamboat 
 Inspection Bureau may be accepted in lieu of such examination. 
 
 5. Each Board of Examiners shall transmit to the Commission 
 at the end of each month a statement of the results of the examina- 
 tions they have conducted, setting forth the names of the persons 
 examined or appointed, the compensation of each, and such other 
 information as the Commission may require.
 
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 Rule XIX. 
 
 THE LABOR CLASS. 
 
 1. Positions in the Labor Class that are not filled through 
 transfer or reinstatement shall be filled by selection, in the man- 
 ner hereinafter provided from among those persons whose names 
 are highest on the most nearly appropriate eligible list, result- 
 ing from the registration, according to priority of application, of 
 duly qualified applicants therefor. 
 
 2. The Commission shall establish, and so far as practicable 
 shall maintain continuously, registration lists of persons eligible for 
 employment under each title in the Labor Class, and, where the char- 
 acter of the position requires, may establish separate lists under 
 such titles for each borough and for the counties of Westchester, 
 Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster and Nassau; but a person certified and 
 employed from a borough or county list shall not be eligible for 
 transfer or assignment to work in any other borough or county 
 within six months from the date of such employment. 
 
 3. For the purposes of such registration, and of the qualifying 
 examinations required, the Labor Class shall be subdivided as 
 follows: 
 
 PART I. Laborers and others registered for employment in a designated 
 borough or county; 
 
 PART II. Mechanics and others registered for employment in any borough ; 
 
 PART III. Mechanics registered for employment in any borough, subject 
 to trade examination. 
 
 The positions included in each of the aforesaid subdivisions 
 shall be those so designated in the Classification. 
 
 4. Applications for registration for positions in the Labor 
 Class shall be addressed to the Commission on a prescribed form, 
 signed by the applicant with his name or mark, indicating the 
 position sought, stating, under oath, such facts as to his age, 
 residence, citizenship, physical condition, previous occupation 
 and experience as the Commission may require, and accompanied 
 by the certificate of three reputable citizens, whose residences or 
 places of business are within the City of New York or within the 
 county in which he resides, to the effect that they have known him 
 personally for not less than one year, that they believe his character 
 and habits of industry and sobriety to be good, and that they have
 
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 read his statements and believe them to be correct. If the appli- 
 cant has been employed, at least one of such persons shall be an 
 employer or former employer, who shall certify as to his capacity 
 for the kind of work for which he applies, or an explanation satis- 
 factory to the Commission shall be given as to why such a certificate 
 can not be obtained. If the application is not in the handwriting 
 of the applicant he shall state by whom it was written, giving the 
 name, occupation and address of such person. 
 
 When the applicant desires to be registered for employment 
 in any recognized trade, he shall state the number of years of his 
 general experience as a journeyman in such trade, and shall present, 
 in addition to the certificates aforesaid, a certificate, signed by a firm, 
 or member thereof, by which he has been employed in such trade, or 
 by a superintendent or master workman, still in the service of such 
 firm, under whom he has worked therein, vouching for his practical 
 capacity and fitness as a mechanic. 
 
 No certificate required under this clause shall be based upon 
 previous employment in a city department unless signed both by the 
 head of such department, and by the officer under whose personal 
 supervision the services, in such case, were performed. 
 
 The Gassification of positions in the Labor Class, and the text 
 of this rule shall be printed, for the information of applicants, on 
 the blank form of application, and copies of such form shall be 
 procurable, on the personal or written request of the applicant, at the 
 Labor Bureau of the Commission only. 
 
 5. Applications for a given position shall be received either 
 continuously or between fixed dates, as the Commission may by 
 regulation or resolution require; but no such fixed period shall be 
 of less duration than two weeks and public notice thereof shall be 
 given, so far as practicable, in the manner prescribed for a position 
 in the Competitive Class. 
 
 6. On the receipt of an application properly filled out and 
 attested, and accompanied by the required certificates, a number 
 shall be affixed thereto, showing the order of such receipt, and the 
 name of the applicant shall be recorded in such order. As often as 
 may be necessary to meet or to anticipate the needs of the service, 
 such applicants shall be notified, in the order of application, to 
 appear for physical examination, at such time and place as the Com-
 
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 mission may require. The number called for such examination shall 
 be sufficient to provide an adequate registration list, but shall in no 
 case be less than fifty, if that number have applied. No application 
 when filed shall be subject to change, or be returned to the applicant 
 for any reason. 
 
 7. On appearing for the physical examination applicants shall 
 be questioned concerning- the statements made in their applica- 
 tion blanks and concerning their previous employment and expe- 
 rience. If the answers made are in any important respect at 
 variance with such statements, examination in such case shall be 
 suspended, and if it appears on investigation, or through information 
 otherwise received, that such applicant has wilfully made a false 
 statement or that he has connived at any false statement made in any 
 certificate, his name shall be removed from any list on which it 
 appears, and he shall be disqualified thereafter for either examination 
 or registration. 
 
 An applicant who fails to report for physical examination, 
 when duly notified, shall lose his application number, but his name 
 may, in the discretion of the Commission, be again recorded, with- 
 out renewal of his application, if a request in writing, stating the 
 reasons for such failure, be presented not later than ten days there- 
 after. 
 
 8. The physical examination shall have reference generally 
 to (a) measurements of weight and height; (6) sight and hear- 
 ing; (0 habits as to the use of stimulants and narcotics; (d) 
 general organic condition, and (c) previous condition of health; 
 and, particularly, to such qualities of strength or endurance as 
 may be important in the kind of work to be performed. 
 
 For positions in Part III. applicants shall be subjected, fur- 
 ther, to practical tests of skill and capacity in the use of the tools 
 of their trade. 
 
 The Commission may prescribe limits of age for any position 
 where, in its judgment, the nature of the work to be performed 
 demands, and subject to the provisions of law respecting vet- 
 erans. 
 
 9. The names of those persons who are certified by the exam- 
 iners to be physically qualified for the employment sought, and, 
 where the position is in Part III, to be qualified in their respect- 
 ive trades, shall be entered upon the appropriate registration list in
 
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 the order of original application; except that the names of veterans, 
 thus qualified, shall be placed at the head of such list, in the order 
 of application. 
 
 No person shall remain eligible for selection for employment 
 from such list who, on the first day of January, April, July or October, 
 in any year, has been carried thereon for one year or longer; but 
 the Commission may, at his request, and in its discretion, allow a 
 re-examination of such person, physically, at the termination of any 
 period of his eligibility, and if he shall again be qualified, as the 
 result of such examination, his name shall be retained on such list 
 for one year from such quarterly date. 
 
 No application shall remain in force which, on any such date, 
 has run for two years or longer without a call for examination; 
 unless, with the consent of the Commission, it be renewed for a 
 further period of two years. 
 
 Notice shall be sent, with a copy of this Clause, to each person 
 whose eligibility either for appointment from a registration list or 
 for examination is about to terminate, not less than two weeks in 
 advance of such termination. 
 
 10. When the services of laborers are required in any depart- 
 ment, office or institution, the appointing officer thereof shall 
 notify the Commission, stating the character of the work to be 
 performed, the place of employment, the number of persons required, 
 the wages to be paid and the probable duration of such employment. 
 The Commission shall thereupon certify from the appropriate 
 list the names of those standing highest thereon, and, except as 
 herein provided, such certification, and appointments or selections 
 for employment therefrom, shall be made in the manner prescribed 
 by Rule XI for positions in the Competitive Class. The name of 
 any person certified as eligible for employment from a county list 
 in connection with the water supply who shall decline such employ- 
 ment shall be stricken from the list from which such certification 
 is made, unless such declination be for the reason of residence in 
 a township other than that in which the duties are to be performed. 
 
 11. In a case of emergency, where it is not practicable to 
 secure laborers from an eligible list with sufficient promptness, 
 or where a list is temporarily exhausted, an appointing officer 
 may hire and employ for a period not exceeding five days as many 
 persons as may be required, but he shall in such a case report
 
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 his action, with the full particulars thereof, to the Commission, 
 and such action shall be subject to the Commission's subsequent 
 approval. 
 
 12. It shall be the duty of an appointing officer to submit in 
 such manner as the Commission may prescribe the report of 
 appointments and changes in the Labor Class required by law, 
 and upon the termination of an employment he shall m each case 
 certify to the Commission the reasons therefor. Where such termina- 
 tion is due to a reduction of force the name of the person affected, 
 if he has been employed for a period of three months or less, shall be 
 restored to the registration list, in its original relative order; if such 
 person has been employed for a longer period than three months, 
 he shall be deemed to be suspended from such employment, and 
 shall be registered upon a preferred list for reinstatement, if his 
 services be again required, in the manner prescribed by Clause I 
 of Rule XIII for positions in the Competitive Class. 
 
 No person whose employment is terminated for the reason of- 
 failure to work, incompetence, or physical or moral unfitness 
 shall be eligible for re-registration for a period of six months from 
 the date of such termination, and then only upon furnishing to 
 the Commission a satisfactory explanation of his failure to work, 
 or satisfactory evidence that such other disqualification no longer 
 exists. 
 
 A person employed in a Labor position under these rules, who, 
 after three months' service in such position, left it voluntarily, and 
 without fault or delinquency on his part, may be re-employed in 
 the same position, within one year of the date of his separation, 
 without further examination or registration if there be no persons 
 eligible for reinstatement upon a preferred list for such position. 
 
 13. A person who has served with fidelity for. one year in a 
 position in the Labor Class may be transferred to any other posi- 
 tion therein for which he may be shown to possess such qualifi- 
 cations, in respect either to previous experience or to physical or 
 technical fitness, as may be required in the case of original ap- 
 pointment to such other position, on the issuance by the Com- 
 mission of a certificate to such effect; but no person shall be other- 
 wise transferred or assigned to the duties of a different position, 
 except that in the Department of Street Cleaning, during the 
 winter season, persons in the uniformed force may be detailed in
 
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 emergencies for clerical service in the offices of the snow and ice 
 bureau. 
 
 14. Where, through the operation of these rules, the title of an 
 existing registration list is discontinued, the names of persons thereon 
 shall be placed upon such other existing list as the Commission, by 
 resolution, may declare to be most appropriate, in the same order, 
 with relation to other names upon such list, as though they had been 
 originally registered thereon. 
 
 Rule XX. 
 
 THE CIVIL LIST AND REPORTS OF CHANGES IN THE 
 
 SERVICE. 
 
 i. The Commission shall keep in its office an official roster of 
 the Classified City Service, which shall be known as the " CIVIL 
 LIST," and a transcript of which, omitting the names of persons in 
 the Labor or the Non-Competitive Class, and of date of December 
 31 of each year, shall be published in the " City Record " during 
 the month of January following. The Commission shall enter upon 
 such roster the name of every person who has been appointed to 
 or employed, promoted or reinstated in any position in such service, 
 upon such evidence as it may require or deem satisfactory, that such 
 person was appointed, employed, promoted or reinstated in con- 
 formity with the provisions of law and of these rules. Such roster 
 shall show opposite or in connection with each name placed thereon 
 the date of appointment, employment, promotion or reinstatement, 
 the compensation of the position, the date of commencement of 
 service, and the date of transfer in or of separation from the service 
 by suspension, removal, resignation, cancellation of appointment 
 or death. Such roster shall also bear the residence, by street 
 numbers where there are such, of each such person, which shall be 
 corrected when such residence is changed, on notice from the said 
 person in writing.
 
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 2. In preparing the transcript of such roster for publication, or 
 for transmission with its annual report to the State Civil Service 
 Commission, the Commission shall summarize the number of 
 persons employed in the Labor and in the Non-Competitive Class 
 respectively, and, as accurately as practicable, the details of such 
 employment, and, before publishing or transmitting such roster, 
 shall append thereto a copy of such summary. In connection with 
 such annual publication in the " City Record," the Commission shall 
 publish also a separate statement, giving, by departments, the names 
 of all persons whose official status has been changed during the 
 year covered, either by promotion or reduction, or by increase or 
 decrease of compensation, and showing, in each case, the date of 
 such change, the titles of positions interchanged, the differences in 
 salary, and, in cases of advance in status, whether such advance was 
 based upon examination under these rules. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of each appointing officer to report to 
 the Commission in writing each selection made by him for ap- 
 pointment to, or employment or reinstatement in, any position 
 in the Classified Service, except in the Non-Competitive Class, 
 upon the date thereof, stating, in each case, the name of the 
 appointee or employee, the title and character of his office or 
 employment, the date of commencement of service by virtue 
 thereof, and the amount of compensation to be paid; and it shall 
 be the duty of such officer to report to the Commission, in like 
 manner, upon the date of his official action therein or knowledge 
 thereof, in each case, every suspension, removal or resignation 
 from, or transfer to, any such position, with such pertinent data 
 with relation to each as the Commission may require. 
 
 Rule XXI. 
 
 CERTIFICATION OF PAY-ROLLS. 
 
 i. It shall be the duty of the appointing officer in any depart- 
 ment, office or institution the employees of which are paid direct
 
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 from the treasury of the city to submit to the Commission all pay- 
 rolls for certification, as required by section 19 of the Civil Service 
 Law, and to certify to the Commission that the persons named 
 therein were appointed or promoted to, or employed in the posi- 
 tions indicated, in compliance with the provisions of the Civil 
 Service Law and of these rules, and that they are regularly em- 
 ployed in the performance of the appropriate duties of such indi- 
 cated positions, and have at no time during the period covered by 
 such pay-roll been assigned to the performance of duties apper- 
 taining to any other title. 
 
 2. All pay-rolls shall, before transmission to the Comptroller or 
 other fiscal officer of the city, bear the certificate of the Commis- 
 sion that the persons whose names appear thereon have been 
 appointed or employed or promoted in pursuance of the Civil 
 Service Law and of these rules. Such pay-rolls shall in each case 
 be verified by comparison with the official roster, and if it appears 
 that any person whose name is borne thereon has been appointed 
 or employed, or continued in employment, in any manner contrary 
 to the provisions of law or of these rules, such certification, in the 
 case of such person, shall be denied. 
 
 The Commission, by resolution, may authorize either the Secre- 
 tary or the Assistant Secretary to attach the certificate herein 
 required. 
 
 Rule XXII. 
 
 TRANSMISSION OF RULES. 
 
 The Commission shall transmit a certified copy of these rules 
 within ten days of their promulgation to each board or officer 
 having power of appointment to any office or position in the City 
 Service, and in like manner to each such officer who may hereafter 
 be elected or appointed, on the assumption of the duties and 
 authority of his office.
 
 APPENDIX : CLASSIFICATION.
 
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 CLASSIFICATION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE. 
 
 THE EXEMPT CLASS. 
 OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF ACCOUNTS. 
 
 Chief Accountant Chief Engineer 
 
 Chief Clerk 2 Examining Engineers 
 
 16 Examiners of Accounts 2 Stenographers to Commissioners 
 
 8 Chief Examiners of Accounts 8 Examining Inspectors 
 
 i Law Examiner 
 
 ARMORY BOARD. 
 
 Secretary of the Board 
 
 BOARD OF ASSESSORS. 
 
 Secretary of the Board 
 
 
 
 AQUEDUCT COMMISSION. 
 
 Secretary of the Commission Stenographer to the President 
 
 Auditor of Accounts 4 DrVision Engineers 
 
 Chief Engineer Consulting Engineer 
 2 General Inspectors 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF BRIDGES. 
 
 Deputy Commissioner 4 Consulting Engineers 
 
 Chief Engineer Secretary to the Commissioner 
 
 BELLEVUE AND ALLIED HOSPITALS. 
 
 Secretary to the President 3 Chaplains
 
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 BROOKLYN DISCIPLINARY TRAINING SCHOOL. 
 
 Superintendent 3 Chaplains 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES. 
 
 3 Superintendents of Bureau of Dependent Adults, for the Boroughs of 
 Manhattan and The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, and Richmond, 
 respectively 
 
 Deputy Commissioner . Secretary to the Second Deputy 
 Second Deputy Commissioner Commissioner 
 
 Secretary of the Department General Inspector 
 
 Secretary to the Commissioner 7 Chaplains 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION. 
 
 Deputy Commissioner 7 Wardens (Prisons or Workhouse). 
 
 Secretary of the Department 9 Chaplains 
 
 Secretary to the Commissioner Secretary to the Board of Parole 
 
 BOARD OF CITY RECORD. 
 
 Supervisor of the City Record 
 
 CITY COURT. 
 
 Clerk Clerk's Attendant 
 
 Deputy Clerk 
 
 CITY MAGISTRATES' COURT. 
 
 Clerk of each Court , Probation officer (to be appointed 
 
 under chapter 357, Laws 1903) 
 
 COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. 
 
 Clerk Attendant to each Judge 
 
 Deputy Clerk 
 
 THE MUNICIPAL COURT. 
 
 Clerk to each District Deputy Clerk for each District in 
 
 the Boroughs of Manhattan, 
 Brooklyn, The Bronx, and the 
 First District of Queens 
 
 Clerk to each Justice Assistant Court Clerk
 
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 COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS. 
 
 Clerk 
 
 Clerk of the Court for Brooklyn, 
 
 Queens and Richmond, Second 
 
 Division 
 
 Deputy Clerk of the First Division 
 Deputy Clerk of the Second Division 
 Clerk of the Children's Court 
 Deputy Clerk of the Children's Court 
 
 Clerk of the Children's Court, Sec- 
 ond Division 
 
 Deputy Clerk of the Children's Court, 
 Second Division 
 
 Female Probation Officer, in the First 
 Division, to be appointed under 
 chapter 582 of the Laws of 1903 
 
 MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. 
 
 Secretary of the Commission 
 
 Assistant Secretary 
 10 Expert Examiners 
 
 CORONERS. 
 
 Chief Clerk in each Borough office 
 I Clerk to each Coroner in the Bor- 
 oughs of Manhattan, Richmond, 
 The Bronx, Brooklyn and 
 Queens 
 
 Replevin Clerk in each Borough 
 
 office 
 
 COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 Assistant Secretary Secretary to the President 
 
 Secretary of the College 
 Secretary to the President 
 
 NORMAL COLLEGE. 
 
 Bellringer 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS AND FERRIES. 
 
 Deputj Commissioner 
 Secretary of the Department 
 Secretary to the Commissioner 
 Superintendent of Ferries 
 
 Assistant Superintendent of Ferries 
 
 Chief Engineer 
 
 Cashier 
 
 BOARD OF EXAMINERS. 
 
 Clerk to the Board 
 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Secretary of the Board of Education 
 Secretary to the City Superintendent 
 
 Supt. of School Buildings 
 Supt. of School Supplies
 
 BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT. 
 
 Chief Clerk 
 
 Stenographer to the Board 
 
 Chief Engineer 
 
 Secretary 
 
 BOARD OF ELECTIONS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 Board and 
 
 6 Chief Clerks for 
 
 Boroughs 
 6 Deputy Chief Clerks for Board 
 
 and Boroughs 
 
 2 Secretaries to Commissioners 
 2 Stenographers to Commissioners 
 6 Clerks to Board 
 20 Clerks for the Boroughs 
 
 BOARD OF WATER SUPPLY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 
 I Chief Engineer 
 6 Consulting Engineers 
 I Deputy Chief Engineer 
 4 Division Engineers 
 I Secretary 
 
 I Assistant Secretary 
 i Chief Clerk 
 I Auditor 
 
 I Confidential Secretary 
 Commissioner 
 
 to each 
 
 FINANCE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 2 Deputy Comptrollers 
 Assistant Deputy Comptroller 
 
 14 Auditors of Accounts 
 
 3 Deputy Auditors of Accounts 
 18 Examining Inspectors 
 
 7 Expert Accountants 
 Secretary to the Comptroller 
 City Paymaster 
 7 Deputy City Paymasters 
 
 Chief Stock and Bond Clerk 
 7 Stock and Bond Clerks 
 Security Deposit Clerk 
 Collector of City Revenues and 
 
 Superintendent of Markets 
 Clerk to the Comptroller 
 Deputy Collector of City Reve- 
 nues 
 
 Deputy Supt. of Markets 
 10 Bank Messengers 
 
 Messenger in the Paymaster's 
 office and Auditing Bureau 
 
 Collector of Assessments and 
 
 Arrears 
 
 Deputy Collector of Assessments 
 and Arrears, in each Borough 
 Receiver of Taxes 
 2 Deputy Receivers of Taxes in 
 
 each Borough 
 29 Cashiers 
 
 2 Appraisers of Real Estate 
 7 Examiners of Accounts of Insti- 
 tutions " 
 
 Deputy Chamberlain 
 4 Warrant Clerks in the office of 
 
 the Chamberlain 
 2 Bank Messengers in the office of 
 
 the Chamberlain 
 
 Examiner of Endorsements and 
 Coupons in the office of the 
 Chamberlain 
 Stenographer to the Receiver of 
 
 Taxes 
 Medical Examiner
 
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 FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Deputy Commissioner 
 
 Deputy Commissioner Brooklyn and 
 
 Queens 
 
 Secretary of the Department 
 Secretary to the Commissioner 
 Secretary to the Deputy Commis- 
 sioner 
 
 Secretary of the Relief Fund 
 Cashier Manhattan, Richmond and 
 
 The Bronx 
 
 Cashier Brooklyn and Queens 
 Inspector of 'Combustibles 
 4 Chaplains 
 
 HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Secretary of the Department Sanitary Superintendent 
 
 2 Secretaries to the President. Assistant Sanitary Superintendent in 
 
 2 Sanitary Engineers each Borough 
 
 Chaplain 
 
 75 Assistants to the 
 
 Counsel 
 Chief Clerk 
 
 Secretary to the Corporation 
 Counsel 
 
 LAW DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Corporation Attendant to the Corporation Coun- 
 sel 
 
 Attendant to the First Assistant 
 Corporation Counsel, Brooklyn 
 
 OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF LICENSES. 
 
 Secretary to the Commissioner 
 
 MAYOR'S OFFICE. 
 
 Secretary to the Mayor 
 Assistant Secretary 
 Chief Clerk and Bond and War- 
 rant Clerk 
 3 Executive Clerks 
 Executive Stenographer 
 
 Chief of the Bureau of Licenses 
 
 Deputy Chief of the Bureau of Li- 
 censes, Manhattan and The Bronx 
 
 Deputy Chief of the Bureau of Li- 
 censes, Brooklyn 
 
 Chief of the Bureau of Weights and 
 Measures 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 
 
 Secretary of the Park Board 
 Secretary to each Commissioner 
 Stenographer to the Commissioner 
 
 for Manhattan and Richmond 
 Stenographer to the Commissioner 
 
 for Brooklyn and Queens 
 Chief Engineer Brooklyn and 
 
 Queens 
 
 Superintendent of Parks Man- 
 hattan and Richmond 
 2 Assistant Superintendents of 
 Parks The Bronx 
 
 2 Assistant Superintendents of 
 Parks Manhattan and Rich- 
 mond 
 
 Landscape Architect 
 
 Chief Engineer Manhattan and 
 Richmond 
 
 Chief Engineer The Bronx 
 
 Superintendent of Parks Brook- 
 lyn and Queens 
 
 Superintendent of Parks The 
 Bronx
 
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 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 3 Deputy Commissioners Complaint Clerk 
 
 Secretary to the Commissioner Property Clerk 
 
 Secretary to each Deputy Com- Assistant Property Clerk 
 
 missioner Auditor of Accounts 
 
 Stenographer to the Commissioner 
 Stenographer to each Deputy 
 
 Commissioner 
 
 OFFICE OF THE BOROUGH PRESIDENT IN EACH BOROUGH. 
 
 Secretary of the Borough Executive Clerk 
 
 Stenographer to the President Secretary to the President, Brooklyn 
 
 Confidential Inspector Manhattan 
 
 BUREAU OF BUILDINGS IN EACH BOROUGH. 
 
 Superintendent of Buildings Consulting Architect 
 
 Asst. Supt. of Buildings Chief Inspector 
 
 Secretary to the Superintendent 
 
 BUREAU OF PUBLIC WORKS IN EACH BOROUGH. 
 
 Commissioner of Public Works Superintendent of Public Buildings 
 
 Assistant Commissioner of Public and Offices 
 
 Works Superintendent of Street Cleaning 
 
 Secretary to the Commissioner of in Queens and in Richmond 
 
 Public Works Consulting Engineer of Public 
 
 Superintendent of Highways Buildings Manhattan 
 
 Superintendent of Sewers Chief Engineer of Sewers, Manhat- 
 
 Cashier, Bureau of Highways tan 
 
 Chief Engineer of Highways, Man- 
 hattan 
 
 QUEENS BOROUGH LIBRARY. 
 Librarian 
 
 RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSION. 
 
 Secretary of the Commission 3 General Inspectors 
 
 Chief Engineer Secretary to the Chief Engineer 
 
 Principal Assistant Engineer Auditor of Accounts 
 
 Division Engineers Photographer
 
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 SINKING FUND COMMISSION. 
 Clerk of the Commission 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF STREET CLEANING. 
 
 Deputy Commissioner Secretary to the Commissioner 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. 
 
 Assistant to each Commissioner Secretary to the President 
 
 Stenographer to each Commissioner Chief Clerk in each Borough except 
 Secretary to the Board Manhattan 
 
 TENEMENT HOUSE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 2 Deputy Commissioners Secretary to the Superintendent 
 
 Superintendent Brooklyn The Bronx 
 
 Superintendent The Bronx Assistant Superintendent The 
 
 Secretary of the Department Bronx 
 
 Secretary to the Commissioner Stenographer to each Deputy 
 
 Secretary to the First Deputy Commissioner 
 Commissioner 3 Chief Inspectors 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY, GAS AND ELECTRICITY. 
 
 Deputy Commissioner in each Bor- Chief Engineer of Water Supply 
 
 ough Manhattan 
 
 Secretary of the Department Chief Engineer of Water Supply- 
 Secretary to the Commissioner Brooklyn 
 
 Secretary to the Deputy Commis- Chief Engineer of Light and Power 
 
 sioner, Borough of Manhattan Consulting Engineer of Water Sup- 
 Stenographer to the Commissioner ply 
 
 Stenographer to the Deputy Com- Consulting Engineer in the Electri- 
 
 missioner, Borough of Brooklyn cal Bureau 
 
 Water Register Manhattan Cashier in each Borough 
 Water Register Brooklyn 
 Water Register The Bronx 
 
 The classification of any office or position in the Exempt Gass, becoming 
 effective through the adoption of these rules at the time of such adoption, shall 
 in no case be deemed to permit a new appointment to such office or position, 
 except where a vacancy exists or may hereafter be created with authority of 
 law; nor shall such classification be deemed to transfer to the competitive 
 class any office or position classified prior to the adoption of this rule as exempt.
 
 So 
 
 THE COMPETITIVE CLASS. 
 PART I. UNGRADED POSITIONS. 
 
 Croup i Inspectors or Overseers of Public Work: 
 
 Inspector of Chief Inspector 
 
 (1) Regulating, Grading and Paving Superintendent of 
 
 (2) Pipe Laying, Pipes and Hydrants (i) Conduits and Reservoirs 
 
 (3) Meters and Water Consumption (2) Dam Construction 
 
 (4) Sewer Construction (3) Dock and Pier Construc- 
 
 (5) Sewer Connections tion 
 
 (6) Masonry Construction (4) Street Openings 
 
 (7) Iron and Steel Construction Assistant Superintendent 
 
 (8) Cement Tests 
 
 (9) Dock and Pier Construction 
 
 tion 
 (10) Dredging 
 
 Group 2 Inspectors of Buildings or Building Conditions: 
 
 Inspector of (4) Light and Ventilation 
 
 (1) Carpentry and Masonry (5) Tenements 
 
 (2) Iron and Steel Construction Lay Sanitary Inspector. 
 
 (3) Plumbing Chief Inspector 
 
 Group 3 Electrical Positions: 
 
 Assistant Electrical Engineer Inspector of Electric Lighting and 
 
 Electrician Conductors 
 
 Dynamo Engineman 
 
 Group 4 Architectural Positions: 
 
 Architect, permanently employed Deputy Superintendent of School 
 
 Plan Examiner Buildings 
 
 Architectural Draftsman 
 
 Group 5 Mechanical Engineering Positions: 
 
 Mechanical Engineer Inspector of Boilers 
 
 Mechanical Draughtsman 
 
 Group 6 Law Positions: 
 
 Junior Assistant Corporation Coun- Assistant Court Clerk. 
 
 sel Law Examiner 
 
 Law Clerk
 
 Croup 7 Medical Positions: 
 
 General Medical Officer Coroner's Physician 
 
 General Medical Superintendent Police Surgeon 
 Medical Superintendent Examiner in Lunacy 
 
 Deputy Medical Superintendent Oculist 
 
 Medical Inspector ' Medical Clerk 
 Physician 
 
 Croup 8 Laboratory Positions: 
 
 Pathologist Apothecary 
 
 Bacteriologist Laboratory Assistant 
 
 Chemist 
 
 Group g Hospital and Asylum Positions Lay: 
 
 Superintendent Matron 
 
 Deputy Superintendent Nurse 
 
 Supervising Nurse Orderly 
 Steward 
 
 Croup 10 Library Positions: 
 
 Superintendent of Library Depart- Librarian 
 
 ments Assistant Librarian 
 
 Assistant Superintendent of Library Junior Assistant Librarian 
 
 Departments Cataloguer 
 
 Croup ii Positions of a Special or Miscellaneous Character: 
 
 Arboriculturist 
 
 Assistant Fire Marshal 
 
 Attendance Officer 
 
 Attendant 
 
 Court Attendant 
 
 Chief of Bertillon System 
 
 Collector 
 
 Temporary Clerk 
 
 Foreman Bookbinder 
 
 Bookbinder 
 
 Bridgekeeper 
 
 Computer of Assessments 
 
 Deputy Commissioner of Taxes and Assessments 
 
 Deputy Supervisor of the City Record 
 
 Deputy Superintendent of School Supplies 
 
 Dietician 
 
 Disinfector 
 
 Dock Master 
 
 Doorman (Police Dep't)
 
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 Examiners : 
 
 (1) Chief Examiner, Civil Service Commission 
 
 (2) Civil Service Examiners 
 
 (3) Examiner, Board of Education 
 
 (4) Examiner, Board of City Record 
 
 (5) Examiner of Charitable Institutions 
 
 Enginemen : 
 
 (1) Supervisory Engineman 
 
 (2) Stationary Engineman 
 
 (3) Pile Driving Engineman 
 
 (4) Automobile or Locomobile Engineman 
 Foreman of Repair Shops 
 
 Head Gardener 
 Gardener 
 Interpreter 
 Hydrographer 
 Inspector of 
 
 (1) Lamps and Gas 
 
 (2) Combustibles 
 
 (3) Fire Alarm Boxes 
 
 (4) Incumbrances 
 
 (5) Foods 
 
 (6) Fuel 
 
 (7) Lumber 
 
 (8) Weights and Measures 
 
 (9) Supplies and Repairs 
 
 Deputy Inspector of Weights and Measures 
 
 Gas Inspector 
 
 Chief Gas Inspector 
 
 Chief Inspector 
 
 Janitor 
 
 Janitor Engine-man 
 
 Director of Menagerie 
 
 Keeper of Menagerie 
 
 Keeper of Morgue 
 
 Keeper on Aqueduct 
 
 Marine Engineer 
 
 Matron (Police or Prison Services) 
 
 Measurer 
 
 Messenger 
 
 Oil Surveyor 
 
 Photographer 
 
 Prison Orderly 
 
 Purchasing Agent 
 
 Searcher
 
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 Steward 
 
 Storekeeper 
 
 Sealer of Weights and Measures 
 
 Superintendent of 
 
 (1) Incumbrances 
 
 (2) Docks 
 
 (3) Public Baths and Comfort Stations 
 
 (4) Laundries 
 
 (5) Supplies and Repairs 
 
 (6) Hospital Supplies 
 Supervisor of Complaints 
 Teacher 
 
 Telephone Switchboard Operator 
 
 Telegraph Operator 
 
 Veterinarian 
 
 Visitor, Department of Public Charities 
 
 Watchman 
 
 PART [II. THE CLERICAL SERVICE. 
 
 Group i. Clerks: 
 
 Office Boy, or Girl Tenement Department Clerk 
 
 Junior Clerk Chief Clerk 
 
 Clerk, or Copyist Assistant Secretary 
 Financial Clerk 
 
 Group 2 Accountants: 
 
 Accountant Chief Accountant or Bookkeeper 
 
 Bookkeeper Auditor 
 
 Examiner 
 
 Group 3 Stenographers: 
 
 Typewriting Copyist Stenographer and Typewriter 
 
 Book Typewriter Court Stenographer 
 
 Group 4 Statisticians: 
 
 Statistical Clerk Assistant Registrar of Records 
 
 Statistician Registrar of Records 
 
 Tabulator
 
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 The positions under the above titles are graded according to the 
 amount of the annual compensation, or its equivalent, attaching to each, 
 as follows: 
 
 Grade 4 $1,200 annually 
 " 5- 1,500 " 
 
 6 1,800 
 
 7 2,100 
 
 8 2,400 
 
 9 2,700 
 
 Grade A Not exceeding $300 an- 
 nually 
 
 " B $480 annually 
 " C- 540 " 
 " D 600 
 " i- 750 " 
 "2900 
 " 3- 1,050 
 
 10 3,000 annually, or over 
 
 PART III. THE POLICE SERVICE. 
 
 Grade i Patrolman (Of the First Grade 3 Sergeant 
 
 Grade as defined by Sec- Detective Sergeant 
 
 tion 299 of the City " 4 Captain 
 
 Charter) " 5 Inspector 
 " 2 Roundsman 
 
 PART IV. THE FIRE SERVICE. 
 
 Grade I Fireman (Of the First 
 Grade as defined by 
 Section 740 of the City 
 Charter) 
 
 Engineer of Steamer 
 " 2 Assistant Foreman 
 " 3 Foreman 
 
 Grade 4 Battalion Chief 
 
 Chief of Construction and 
 
 Repairs 
 
 Chief Instructor 
 Fire Marshal 
 5 Deputy Chief 
 " 6 Chief 
 
 PART V. THE PRISON SERVICE. 
 
 Grade i-Keeper 
 
 " 2 Head Keeper 
 
 Grade 3 
 
 Head Keeper of Branch Work- 
 house at Riker's Island or 
 Hart's Island 
 
 Deputy Warden, Kings County 
 Penitentiary 
 
 PART VI. THE STREET CLEANING SERVICE. 
 
 Grade I Assistant Stable Foreman 
 Dump Inspector 
 2 Section Foreman 
 Stable Foreman 
 Dump Inspector 
 Time Collector 
 
 Grade 3 Assistant Superintendent 
 
 of Final Disposition 
 Superintendent of Final 
 
 Disposition , 
 Master Mechanic 
 District Superintendent 
 4 Assistant Superintendent 
 " 5 Superintendent
 
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 PART VII. THE ENGINEER SERVICE. 
 
 Grade i Axeman 
 
 Draftsman's Helper 
 " 2 Chainman 
 Rodman 
 Draughtsman: 
 
 (1) Topographical 
 
 (2) Structural Steel 
 
 (3) Taxes and Assess- 
 ments 
 
 " 3 Leveler 
 
 " 4 Transitman and Computer 
 Engineer Inspector 
 
 Grade 5 Assistant Engineer: 
 
 (1) Rapid Transit 
 
 (2) Bridges and Struc- 
 tural Steel 
 
 (3) Docks 
 
 (4) Sewers, Highways 
 and Parks 
 
 (5) Aqueduct and Water 
 Supply 
 
 Chief Draughtsman 
 Examining Engineer 
 Hydrographic Engineer 
 Assistant Surveyor 
 " 6 Principal Assistant En- 
 gineer 
 Surveyor 
 
 THE NON-COMPETITIVE CLASS. 
 
 Positions in the Department of Public Charities, the Department of Correction, 
 the Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, the New York and Brooklyn Truant 
 Schools, and the Brooklyn Disciplinary Training Schools, as follows: 
 
 Superintendent New York Training 
 
 School for Nurses 
 Assistant Superintendent, New York 
 
 Training School for Nurses 
 Head Pupil Nurse of Training 
 
 School 
 
 Pupil Nurse of Training School 
 Trained Nurse 
 Ambulance Driver 
 Apothecary 
 Baker 
 Barber 
 
 Basket Maker 
 Butcher 
 Cleaner 
 Cook Female 
 Cook Male 
 Cutter 
 Deckhand 
 
 Hospital Helper, with compensation 
 not exceeding $600 per annum, with 
 maintenance 
 
 Hospital Helper Mechanic 
 
 Gardener Driver 
 
 Laundress 
 
 Master or Pilot 
 
 Mate 
 
 Orderly, with compensation not 
 exceeding $240 per annum, with 
 maintenance 
 
 Printer 
 
 Seamstress 
 
 Stoker 
 
 Shoemaker 
 
 Tailor 
 
 Waiter or Waitress 
 
 Minor employees, of whatever des- 
 ignation, whose compensation 
 does not exceed $150 per annum, 
 with maintenance
 
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 Positions in the Department of Public Charities, as follows: 
 
 Pupil Examiner, with compensation not exceeding $480 per annum, with- 
 out maintenance. 
 
 Clerical Assistant to be selected from among the patients or other 
 recipients of, or applicants for, care or relief in the department with 
 compensation not exceeding $300 per annum with maintenance, or $420 
 without maintenance, the number receiving the latter compensation not 
 to exceed twenty. 
 
 Positions in the Hospitals for Contagious Diseases, Department of Health, 
 
 as follows: 
 
 Attending Physician at the Tuber- Fireman 
 
 culosis Clinics of the Department Gardener 
 
 of Health Helper 
 
 Boatman Hospital Physician 
 
 Carpenter Hospital Clerk 
 
 Captain Laborer 
 
 Domestic Medical Interne, with compensation 
 
 Deckhand not exceeding $10 per month, with 
 
 Driver maintenance 
 
 Engineman Nurse 
 
 Elevator Man Orderly 
 
 Errand Boy Watchman 
 
 Positions in the Nautical School, Board of Education, as follows: 
 
 Superintendent Quartermaster 
 
 Executive Officer Sailmaker 
 
 Boatswain Ship's Cook 
 
 Cabin Boy Steward 
 
 Cabin Steward Surgeon 
 
 Captain of Hold Fireman 
 
 Carpenter Seaman 
 
 Instructor Wardroom Boy 
 
 Master-at-Arms Wardroom Steward 
 
 Positions in the Department of Docks: 
 
 Master or Pilot Diver 
 
 Mate Diver's Tender 
 
 Positions in the Department of Street Cleaning: 
 
 Deckhand Mate 
 
 Fireman Marine Engineman 
 
 Master 
 
 Positions in the Public Libraries: 
 
 Cleaner, with compensation not exceeding $20 per month.
 
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 Positions in the Fire Department: 
 Pilot 
 
 Positions in the Office of the Borough Presidents and Department of Water 
 Supply: 
 
 Lighter of Markets 
 
 THE LABOR CLASS. 
 PART I. 
 
 Bridge Tender 
 
 Cleaner (Women) 
 
 Cleaner ( Women ), Dep't of Education 
 
 Cleaner (Men), Dep't of Education 
 
 Driver 
 
 Driver, Dep't St. Cleaning 
 
 Dump Boardman, Dep't of St. Clean- 
 ing 
 
 Driver, St. Cleaning Bureau, Office 
 of the Borough Presidents, Rich- 
 mond and Queens 
 
 Sweeper, St. Cleaning Bureau, Office 
 of the Borough Presidents, Rich- 
 mond and Queens 
 
 Dump Boardman, St. Cleaning 
 Bureau, Office of the Borough 
 Presidents, Richmond and Queens 
 
 Foreman of Laborers, Common 
 Foreman of Park Laborers, Dep't of 
 
 Parks 
 Foreman of Dock Laborers, Dep't 
 
 of Docks and Ferries 
 Foreman's Assistant 
 Hostler 
 
 Laborer, Common 
 Park Laborer, Dep't of Parks 
 Dock Laborer, Dep't of Docks 
 Paver 
 Rammer 
 Stoker 
 
 Stoker, Marine 
 
 Sweeper, Dep't of St. Cleaning 
 Sewer Cleaner, Office of the Borough 
 
 President in each Borough 
 
 PART II. 
 
 Batteryman, Fire Dep't 
 
 Batteryman's Assistant, Fire Dept. 
 
 Bridge Painter 
 
 Cabinet Maker 
 
 Cable Splicer, Fire Dep't 
 
 Cement Worker 
 
 Deckhand 
 
 Elevator Man 
 
 Flagger 
 
 Harness Maker 
 
 Hose Repairer, Fire Dep't 
 
 Lineman 
 
 Machinist's Apprentice 
 
 Marine Sounder, Dep't of Docks 
 
 Oiler 
 
 Mechanics' Helper: 
 Mason 
 Pipe Fitter 
 Blacksmith 
 Machinist 
 Plumber 
 
 Plumber's Apprentice 
 
 Rigger 
 
 Scowman, Dep't of St. Cleaning 
 
 Ship Carpenter 
 
 Ship Caulker 
 
 Stone Cutter 
 
 Stone Mason 
 
 Wheelwright 
 
 Wireman 
 
 Water Tender, Dep't Docks and Fer- 
 ries
 
 PART III. 
 
 Blacksmith Painter: 
 
 Bricklayer Decorator 
 
 Carpenter Grainer 
 
 Dock Builder House 
 
 Foreman Blacksmith Letterer 
 
 Bricklayer Striper 
 
 Carpenter Pipe Caulker 
 
 Dockbuilder Pipe Fitter 
 
 Machinist . Plasterer 
 
 House Painter Plumber 
 
 Pipe Caulker Riveter 
 
 Plumber Saw Filer 
 
 Riveter Tapper 
 
 Housesmith Tapper's Assistant 
 
 Machinist Tinsmith and Roofer 
 
 Varnisher 
 
 NEW YORK, December 2, 1903. 
 
 THE foregoing rules and classification, prescribed by the 
 Municipal Civil Service Commission, are hereby approved. 
 
 SETH Low, Mayor. 
 
 STATE OF NEW YORK, 
 
 OFFICE OF THE STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, 
 ALBANY, December 4, 1903. 
 
 The foregoing Civil Service Rules of the City of New York 
 having been duly examined, are hereby approved by the State Civil 
 Service Commission. 
 
 Attest : 
 
 [SEAL.] JOHN C. BIRDSEYE, 
 
 Secretary.
 
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 CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 CIVIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS. 
 
 9. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the 
 state, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and vil- 
 lages, shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be ascer- 
 tained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as prac- 
 ticable, shall be competitive ; provided, however, that honorably dis- 
 charged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United 
 States in the late civil war, who are citizens and residents of this 
 state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, 
 without regard to their standing on any list from which such 
 appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to 
 provide for the enforcement of this section. 
 
 CHAP. 370. 
 
 AN ACT in relation to the civil service of the state of New York and 
 the cities and civil divisions thereof. 
 
 Became a law April 19, 1899, as amended by L. 1900, chs. 66 and 
 675; L. 1902, chs. 270 and 355. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
 Assembly, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section i. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the civil 
 service law. 
 
 2. Definitions. When used in this chapter, 
 
 1. The term " Commission " or " State commission " means the 
 State Civil Service Commission. 
 
 2. The term " municipal commission " means the municipal civil 
 service commission of a city. 
 
 3. The " civil service " of the state of New York or any of its 
 civil divisions or cities includes all offices and positions of trust or 
 employment in the service of the state or of such civil division or
 
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 city, except such offices and positions in the militia and the military 
 departments as are or may be created under the provisions of 
 article eleven of the constitution. 
 
 4. The "state service " shall include all such offices and -positions 
 in the service of the state or of any of its civil divisions except a city. 
 
 5. The " city service " shall include such positions in the service 
 of any city. 
 
 6. The term " appointing officer " signifies the officer, commis- 
 sion, board or body having the power of appointment to subordinate 
 positions in any office, court, department, commission, board, or 
 institution. 
 
 3. State civil service commission. The governor is author- 
 ized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
 three persons, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of 
 the same political party, as civil service commissioners, and said 
 three commissioners shall constitute the state civil service commis- 
 sion. They shall hold no other official place under the state of New 
 York. The governor may remove any commissioner, and any 
 vacancy in the position of commissioner shall be so filled by the 
 governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, as to 
 conform to said conditions for the first selection of commissioners. 
 The three commissioners shall each receive a salary of three thou- 
 sand dollars a year, and each of said commissioners shall be paid 
 his necessary traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of his 
 duty as a commissioner. 
 
 4. Officers and employees of the commission. The commis- 
 sion may elect one of its members to be president, and may 
 employ a chief examiner, a secretary, and such other officers, 
 clerks and examiners as it may deem necessary or proper 
 to carry out the purposes of this act, and such employees shall hold 
 office during the pleasure of the commission. The chief examiner 
 shall be entitled to receive a salary at the rate of three thousand six 
 hundred dollars a year, and he shall be paid his necessary traveling 
 expenses incurred in the discharge of his duty. The secretary, and 
 other officers, clerks and examiners shall receive salaries to be fixed 
 by the commission, and the secretary shall also be paid his neces- 
 sary traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of his duty. The
 
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 commission may select suitable persons in the official service of the 
 state or any of its civil divisions, after consulting the head of the 
 department or office in which such persons serve, to act as exam- 
 iners under its direction. Persons so selected shall be entitled to 
 compensation from the commission for their necessary expenses 
 occasioned by the service actually rendered, in addition to the 
 regular service required in the department or office where they are 
 regularly employed. The compensation of examiners shall not 
 exceed five dollars per day, except in the case of special and expen 
 examiners employed in the preparation of questions and rating of 
 candidates; the commission shall not expend or authorize the ex- 
 penditure of moneys for any purpose in excess of the sums appro- 
 priated therefor by law. 
 
 5. Rooms and accommodations. It shall be the duty of the 
 trustees of public buildings to cause suitable and convenient rooms 
 and accommodations to be assigned or provided, and to be fur- 
 nished, heated and lighted, at the capitol in the city of Albany, for 
 carrying on the work and examinations of said commission, and 
 said commission may order the necessary stationery, postage stamps, 
 an official seal and other articles to be supplied, and the necessary 
 printing to be done for its official use. It shall be the duty of the 
 officers of the state of New York or of any civil division thereof, at 
 any place where examinations are directed by the commission or its 
 rules to be held, to allow the reasonable use of public buildings, and 
 to heat and light the same for holding such examinations, and in all 
 proper ways to facilitate the same. 
 
 6. The powers and duties of the commission. The state civil 
 service commission shall 
 
 First. Prescribe, amend and enforce suitable rules and regula- 
 tions for carrying into effect the provisions of this act and of section 
 nine of article five of the constitution of the state of New York, as 
 herein provided. The rules prescribed by the state and municipal 
 commissions pursuant to the provisions of this act shall have the 
 force and effect of law. 
 
 Second. Keep minutes of its own proceedings and records of its 
 examinations and other official action. 
 
 Third. Make investigations concerning and report upon all mat- 
 ters touching the enforcement and effect of the provisions of this
 
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 act and the rules and 'regulations prescribed thereunder, concerning 
 the action of any examiner or subordinate of the commission and 
 any person in the public service, in respect to the execution of this 
 act, and in the course of such investigations each commissioner and 
 the secretary and the chief examiner shall have power to administer 
 oaths. 
 
 Fourth. Have power to subpoena and require the attendance in 
 this state of witnesses and the production thereby of books and 
 papers pertinent to the investigation and inquiries hereby authorised 
 and to examine them and such public records as it shall require in 
 relation to any matter which it is required to investigate. And for 
 the purposes of the examination hereby directed, the commission 
 possesses all the powers conferred by the legislative law upon a com- 
 mittee of the legislature or by the code of civil procedure upon a 
 board or committee, and may invoke the power of any court of 
 record in the state to compel the attendance and testifying of wit- 
 nesses and the production thereby of books and papers as aforesaid. 
 
 Fifth. Make an annual report to the governor for transmission 
 to the legislature, showing its own action, the rules and regulations 
 and the exceptions thereto in force, and the practical effects thereof 
 and any suggestions it may approve for the more effectual accom- 
 plishment of the purposes of this act. 
 
 Sixth. Meet in Albany at least once in each calendar month, 
 except the month of August, and hold such other meetings as the 
 needs of the public service may require. A majority of the members 
 of the commission shall constitute a quorum. 
 
 7. Duties of public officers. It shall be the duty of all officers 
 of the state of New York or of any city or civil division thereof to 
 conform to and comply with and to aid in all proper ways in carry- 
 ing into effect the provisions of this act, and the rules and regula- 
 tions prescribed thereunder and any modification thereof. No 
 officer or officers having the power of appointment or employment 
 shall select or appoint any person for appointment, employment, pro- 
 motion or reinstatement except in acordance with the provisions of 
 this act and the rules and regulations prescribed thereunder. Any 
 person employed or appointed contrary to the provisions of this act 
 or of the rules and regulations established thereunder, shall be paid by 
 the officer or officers so employing or appointing, or attempting to em-
 
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 ploy or appoint, him, the compensation agreed upon for any services 
 per formed under such appointment or employment, or in case no com- 
 pensation is agreed upon, the actual value of such services, and any 
 expenses incurred in connection therewith, and shall have a cause 
 of action against such officer or officers or any of them for such sum 
 or sums and for the costs of the action. No public officer shall be 
 reimbursed by the state or any of its civil divisions for any sums so 
 paid or recovered in any such action. 
 
 8. Unclassified service ; classified service. The civil service of 
 the state and of each of its civil divisions and cities shall be divided 
 into the unclassified service and the classified service. The unclassi- 
 fied service shall comprise all elective offices; all offices filled by 
 election or appointment by the legislature on joint ballot ; all persons 
 appointed by name in any statute; all legislative officers and em- 
 ployees ; all offices filled by appointment by the governor, either upon 
 or without confirmation by the senate, except officers and employees 
 in the executive offices ; all election officers ; the head or heads of any 
 department of the government, and persons employed in or who 
 seek to enter the public service as superintendents, principals or 
 teachers in a public school or academy or in a state normal school 
 or college. The classified service shall comprise all positions not 
 included in the unclassified service. All appointments or employ- 
 ments in the classified service, except those of veterans of the civil 
 war, honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the 
 United States, shall be for a probationary term not exceeding the 
 time fixed in the rules. 
 
 9. Rules for the classified state service. Within one month 
 .after the passage of this act, the commission shall make rules for the 
 classification of the offices, places and employments in the classified 
 service of the state, and thereafter from time to time rules for the 
 classification of the offices, places and employments in such other 
 civil divisions thereof, except cities, as after due inquiry by the com- 
 mission shall be found practicable, and for appointments and promo- 
 tions therein and examinations therefor, not inconsistent with the 
 constitution and the provisions of this act, and shall amend the same 
 from time to time. No examination or registration shall be required 
 of persons to be employed as laborers in the state service. Such 
 rules a.*d any modifications thereof, shall take effect when approved
 
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 by the governor. Due notice of the contents of such rules, and of 
 any modifications thereof, shall be given by mail to appointing of- 
 ficers and heads of departments affected thereby, and such rules 
 shall be printed for public distribution. Subject to the provisions 
 of this act and of the rules established thereunder, the commission 
 shall make regulations for and have control of examinations for the 
 service of the state and the civil divisions thereof, except cities, and 
 shall supervise and preserve the records of the same, but such ex- 
 aminations shall be held at least once a year in each of the following 
 places: Albany, Amsterdam, Auburn, Binghamton, Buffalo, Dun- 
 kirk, Elmira, Geneva, Hornellsville, Ithaca, Jamestown, Johnstown, 
 Kingston, Lockport, Malone, Middletown, Newburg, New York, 
 Ogdensburg, Olean, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburg, Poughkeepsie, 
 Rochester, Saratoga, Syracuse, Utica and Watertown; and shall 
 cover in each place all offices and positions for which competitive 
 examinations are required, except such examinations as require 
 special tools, machinery, appliances, or laboratory facilities. 
 
 10. The classified city service. The mayor of each city in this 
 state shall appoint and employ suitable persons to prescribe, amend 
 and enforce rules for the classification of the offices, places and 
 employments in the classified service of such city, and for appoint- 
 ments and promotions therein and examinations therefor; and for 
 the registration and selection of laborers for employment therein, 
 not inconsistent with the constitution and the provisions of this act 
 and shall amend the same from time to time. Such persons shall be 
 municipal civil service commissioners and shall constitute the 
 municipal civil service commission of such city. All appointments 
 or designations of municipal civil service commissioners shall be 
 made in such manner that not more than two-thirds of such com- 
 missioners in any city shall at any time be adherents of the same 
 political party. Such rules herein prescribed and established and all 
 regulations now existing for appointment and promotion in the 
 civil service of said city and any subsequent modification thereof, 
 whether prescribed under the authority of a general law or of any 
 special or local law, shall be valid and take or continue in effect only 
 upon the approval of the mayor of the city and of the state civil 
 service commission. The authority by this section conferred shall not 
 be so exercised as to take from any policeman or fireman any right
 
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 or benefit conferred by law, or existing under any lawful regulation 
 of the department in which he serves. All examinations herein 
 authorized shall be public, and all rules shall be published, and, 
 with all the proceedings and papers connected with said examina- 
 tions shall be at all times subject to the inspection of said state com- 
 mission and its agents; and said commission shall set forth in its 
 reports the character and practical effects of such examinations, 
 together with its views as to the improvement and extension of the 
 same, and also copies of all rules made under the authority hereby 
 conferred. Subject to the provisions of this act and of said rules, 
 the municipal commission of any city shall make regulations for and 
 have control of examinations and registration for the service of 
 such city and shall supervise and preserve the records of the same. 
 In case, for any reason, the mayor of any city within sixty days after 
 he has the power to appoint, fails to appoint such municipal com- 
 missioners, the state commission shall appoint them to hold office 
 until the expiration of the term of the mayor then in office and 
 their successors are appointed and qualify. It shall be the duty of 
 such persons to prepare and to procure the approval of the rules 
 herein provided for, and, if they fail to do so within sixty days after 
 their appointment, the state commission shall forthwith make said 
 rules. It shall be the duty of such persons to make reports from 
 time to time to the state commission, whenever said commission 
 may request, of the manner in which this law, and the rules and 
 regulations thereunder, have been and are administered, and the 
 results of their administration in such city, and of such other 
 matters as said commission may require, and annually on or before 
 the fifteenth day of January, to make such a report to said commis- 
 sion ; and it shall be the duty of said state commission in its annual 
 report to set out either these reports, or a sufficient abstract or 
 summary thereof, to give full and clear information as to their con- 
 tents. A copy of the roster of the classified civil service of such 
 city shall be transmitted to the state commission with the annual 
 report aforesaid, and shall be filed in the office of said commission 
 as a public record. The mayor may at any time remove any munic- 
 ipal civil service commissioner appointed by him. Whenever a 
 municipal civil service commissioner has been removed by the 
 unanimous vote of the three state commissioners, with the written 
 approval of the governor, or whenever any municipal commissioner
 
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 shall resign or be removed by the mayor pending an investigation 
 by the state commission of the administration of the civil service of 
 the city in which such person is a municipal commissioner, or when- 
 ever any municipal commissioner shall resign or be removed by 
 the mayor pending a hearing by the state commission of charges 
 preferred against such municipal commissioner, the state commis- 
 sion and not the mayor of such city shall have power to appoint 
 persons to fill such vacancies, and such persons so appointed by 
 the state commission shall hold office as municipal civil service com- 
 missioners of such city until the expiration of the term of the 
 mayor then in office and until their successors are appointed and 
 qualify. Said state commission may also, by unanimous vote of 
 the three commissioners, with the written approval of the governor, 
 remove any municipal civil service commissioner appointed or em- 
 ployed under the authority of this section, for incompetence, in- 
 efficiency, neglect of duty or violation of the provisions of this act,, 
 or of the rules and regulations in force thereunder, or of any of 
 them, specifying in writing the particulars of the incompetency, 
 inefficiency, neglect of duty or violation charged, and filing the 
 same as a public document in the office of the city clerk, or if there 
 be no city clerk, in the office of the clerk of the board of aldermen, 
 and a certified transcript thereof in the office of the state civil ser- 
 vice commission, first giving him an opportunity to make a personal 
 explanation in self-defense. Said state commission may at any 
 time, by unanimous vote of the three commissioners, amend or 
 rescind any rule, regulation or classification prescribed under pro- 
 visions of this section, provided that said state commission shall 1 
 state the reasons for such action in writing, and file the same and a 
 certified transcript thereof as a public document as hereinbefore 
 provided, and give an opportunity to the municipal civil service 
 Commissioners concerned to make a personal explanation and to 
 file papers in opposition to such action. The said state commission, 
 however, shall not take such action upon any ground other than 
 that the provisions or purposes of this act are not properly or 
 sufficiently carried out by such rule, regulation or classification, nor 
 without specifying in writing and detail in what particular such 
 provisions or purposes are not carried out, nor shall said state com- 
 mission exempt from competitive examination any position, or
 
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 place or employment in any city without the consent of the 
 municipal commission of such city. 
 
 11. Classification. The offices and positions in the classified 
 service of the state or of any city or civil division thereof for which 
 civil service rules shall be established pursuant to this act, shall be 
 arranged in four classes to be designated as the exempt class, the 
 competitive class, the non-competitive class and, in cities, the labor 
 class. 
 
 12. The exempt class. The following positions shall be in- 
 cluded in the exempt class: 
 
 1. The deputies of principal executive officers authorized by law 
 to act generally for and in place of their principals; 
 
 2. One secretary of each officer, board and commission author- 
 ized by law to appoint a secretary; 
 
 3. One clerk, and one deputy clerk if authorized by law, of each 
 court, and one clerk of each elective judicial officer; 
 
 4. In the state service, all unskilled laborers and such skilled 
 laborers as are not included in the competitive class or the non- 
 competitive class: and in addition thereto there may be included in 
 the exempt class all other subordinate offices for the filling of 
 which competitive of non-competitive examinations may be found 
 to be not practicable. But no office or position shall be deemed to 
 be in the exempt class unless it is specifically named in such class 
 in the rules, and the reasons for each such exemption shall be stated 
 separately in the annual reports of the commission. Not more than 
 one appointment shall be made to or under the title of any such 
 office or position, unless a different number is specifically men- 
 tioned in such rules. Appointments to positions in the exempt class 
 may be made without examination. 
 
 13. The competitive class. The competitive class shall in- 
 clude all positions for which it is practicable to determine the 
 merit and fitness of applicants by competitive examination, and 
 shall include all positions now existing, or hereafter created, of 
 whatever functions, designations or compensation, in each and 
 every branch of the classified service, except such positions as are 
 in the exempt class, the non-competitive class or the labor class.
 
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 Appointments shall be made to or employment shall be given in all 
 positions in the competitive class that are not filled by promotion, 
 reinstatement, transfer or reduction under the provisions of this 
 act and the rules in pursuance thereof, by appointment of those 
 graded highest in open competitive examinations conducted by the 
 state or municipal commission, except as herein otherwise pro- 
 vided. The term, of eligibility shall be fixed for each eligible list 
 at not less than one nor more than four years. Appointment shall 
 be made from the eligible list most nearly appropriate for the group 
 in which the position to be filled is classified, and a new list shall 
 be created for a stated position or group of positions only when 
 there is no appropriate list existing from which appointment may be 
 made. No person shall be appointed or employed under any title 
 not appropriate to the duties to be performed, and no person shall 
 be transferred to, or assigned to perform the duties of, any position 
 subject to competitive examination, unless he shall have previously 
 passed an open competitive examination equivalent to that required 
 for such position, .or unless he shall have served with fidelity for at 
 least three years in a similar position. Appointments to positions in 
 the state service, the duties of which are confined to a locality out- 
 side o, Albany county, shall, so far as practicable, be made from 
 residents of the judicial district including such locality. The exam- 
 inations shall be public and shall be practical in their character and 
 shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative 
 capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the 
 duties of that service into which they seek to be appointed. Such 
 commissions shall prepare lists of preliminary requirements and 
 subjects of examination for the several positions or groups of 
 positions in the competitive class and shall publish its rules and 
 such information, and advertise such examinations in such manner 
 as the nature of the examinations may require. Each of such com- 
 missions shall require intending competitors to file in its office a 
 reasonable length of time before the date of any examination, a 
 formal application in which the applicant shall state under oath: 
 
 1. His full name, residence and post-office address. 
 
 2. His age, place and date of his brith. 
 
 3. His health and physical capacity for the public service. 
 
 4. His right of preference by reason of military or naval service.
 
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 5. His business or employment, and residence for at least the 
 previous five years. 
 
 6. Such other information as may reasonably be required touch- 
 ing the applicant's merit and fitness for the public service. 
 
 Blank forms for such applications shall be furnished by said 
 commissions without charge to all persons requesting the same. 
 Such commissions may require in connection with such application 
 such certificates of citizens, physicians, public officers or others hav- 
 ing knowledge of the applicant, as the good of the service may re- 
 quire. Such commissions may refuse to examine an applicant, or 
 after examination to certify an eligible, who is found to lack any of 
 the established preliminary requirements for the examination or 
 position for which lie applies ; or who is physically so disabled as to 
 be rendered unfit for his performance of the duties of the position to 
 which he seeks appointment ; or who is addicted to the habitual use 
 of intoxicating beverages to excess ; or who has been guilty of a 
 crime or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct; or who 
 has been dismissed from the public service for delinquency or mis- 
 conduct; or who has intentionally made a false statement of any 
 material fact, or practiced, or attempted to practice, any deception 
 or fraud in his application, in his examination, or in securing his 
 eligibility or appointment. When the position to be filled involves 
 fiduciary responsibility, the appointing officer, where otherwise per- 
 mitted by law, may require the appointee to furnish a bond or other 
 security and shall notify the state or municipal commission of the 
 amount and necessary details thereof. 
 
 14. Exceptions from competitive examination. Positions in 
 the competitive class may be filled without examination as follows: 
 
 I. Whenever there are urgent reasons for filling a vacancy in 
 any position in the competitive class and there is no list of persons 
 eligible for appointment after competitive examination, the appoint- 
 ing officer may nominate a person to the state or municipal commis- 
 sion for non-competitive examination, and if such nominee shall be 
 certified by such commission as qualified after such non-competitive 
 examination, he may be appointed provisionally to fill such vacancy 
 until a selection and appointment can be made after competitive ex- 
 amination, but such provisional appointment shall not continue for
 
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 a longer period than two months, nor shall successive temporary 
 appointments be made to the same position under this subdivision. 
 
 2. In case of a vacancy in a position in the competitive class 
 where peculiar and exceptional qualifications of a scientific, profes- 
 sional or educational character are required, and upon satisfactory 
 evidence that for specified reasons competition in such special case 
 is impracticable and that the position can be best filled by the selec- 
 tion of some designated person of high and recognized attainments 
 in such qualities, the state or municipal commission may suspend 
 the provisions of the rule requiring competition in such case, but 
 no such suspension shall be general in its application to such place, 
 and all such cases of suspension shall be reported in the annual 
 reports of such commissions with the reasons for the same. 
 
 3. When the services to be rendered by an appointee in the state 
 service are for a temporary period not to exceed one month and the 
 need of such service is important and urgent, the appointing officer 
 may select for such temporary service any person on the proper list 
 of those eligible for permanent appointment without regard to his 
 standing on such list. 
 
 15. Promotion, transfer, reinstatement, reduction. Vacancies 
 in positions in the competitive class shall be filled, so far as prac- 
 ticable, by promotion from among persons holding positions in a 
 lower grade in the department, office or institution in which the 
 vacancy exists. Promotion shall be based upon merit and competi- 
 tion and upon the superior qualifications of the person promoted as 
 shown by his previous service, due weight being given to seniority. 
 For the purposes of this section an increase in the salary or other 
 compensation of any person holding an office or position within the 
 scope of the rules in force hereunder beyond the limit fixed for the 
 grade in which such office or position is classified, shall be deemed 
 a promotion. No promotion, transfer or reinstatement shall be 
 made from a position in one class to a position in another class un- 
 less the same be specially authorized by the state or municipal com- 
 mission, nor shall a person be promoted or transferred to a position 
 for original entrance to which there is required by this act or the 
 rules an examination involving essential tests or qualifications differ- 
 ent from or higher than those required for original entrance to the 
 position held by such person, unless he shall have passed the exam-
 
 ination or attained a place upon the eligible list for such higher 
 position. 
 
 16. The non-competitive class. The non-competitive class 
 shall include such positions as are not in the exempt class or the 
 labor class and which it is impracticable to include in the competi- 
 tive class. Appointments to positions in the non-competitive class 
 shall be made after such non-competitive examination as is pre- 
 scribed by the rules. 
 
 17. The labor class in cities. The labor class in cities shall 
 include unskilled laborers and such skilled laborers as are not in- 
 cluded in the competitive class or the non-competitive class. Vacan- 
 cies in the labor class in cities shall be filled by appointment from lists 
 of applicants registered by the municipal commissions. Preference 
 in employment from such lists shall be given according to date of 
 application. There shall be separate lists of applicants for different 
 kinds of labor or employment, and the commissions may establish 
 separate labor lists for various institutions and departments. Where 
 the labor service of any department or institution extends to sep- 
 arate localities, the commissions may provide separate registration 
 lists for each district or locality. The commissions shall require an 
 applicant for registration for the labor service to furnish such evi- 
 dence or pass such examination as they may deem proper with re- 
 spect to his age, residence, physical condition, ability to labor, skill, 
 capacity and experience in the trade or employment for which he 
 applies. 
 
 1 8. Official roster; reports of appointing officers. No person 
 shall be appointed to or employed in any position in the classified 
 service of the state or of any city or civil division thereof for which 
 rules have been prescribed pursuant to the provisions of this act, 
 until he has passed an examination or is shown to be especially ex- 
 empted from such examination in conformity with such rules and 
 the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of each appointing 
 officer of the state or any such civil division thereof, except cities, 
 to report to the state civil service commission forthwith upon such 
 appointment or employment the name of such appointee or em- 
 ployee, the title and character of his office or employment, the date 
 of the commencement of service by virtue thereof and the salary or
 
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 -compensation thereof, and to report from time to time and upon 
 the date of official action in or knowledge of each case, any 
 separation of a person from the service, or other change therein, 
 and such other information as the commission may require, in 
 order to keep the roster hereinafter mentioned. The commission 
 shall keep in its office an official roster of the classified civil service 
 of the state and of each of the civil divisions thereof for 
 which rules have been prescribed pursuant to this act, except 
 cities, and shall enter thereon the name of each and every person 
 who has been appointed to, employed, promoted or reinstated in 
 any position in such service, upon such evidence as it may require 
 -or deem satisfactory that such person was appointed to, pro- 
 moted or reinstated in the service in conformity with the pro- 
 visions of law and the rules prescribed pursuant to this act. The 
 official roster shall show opposite or in connection with each name 
 the date of appointment, employment, promotion or reinstatement, 
 the compensation of the position, the date of commencement of 
 service, and date of transfer in or Separation from service by 
 dismissal, resignation, cancellation of appointment or death. In 
 like manner the municipal commission of each city shall keep 
 in its office an official roster of the classified civil service of such 
 city, and shall enter thereon the name of each and every person 
 who has been appointed to, employed, promoted or reinstated in 
 any position in such service, upon such evidence as it may require 
 or deem satisfactory that such person was appointed to, or 
 employed, promoted or reinstated in the service in conformity 
 with the provisions of law and of the rules, and it shall be the 
 duty of each appointing officer of such city to report to such 
 municipal commission in like manner as is hereinbefore provided 
 for reports from appointing officers to the state commission. 
 
 19. Disbursing officers. It shall be unlawful for the comp- 
 troller or other fiscal officer of the state or any city or civil division 
 thereof for which civil service rules have been prescribed pursu- 
 ant to this act, to draw, sign or issue, or authorize the drawing, 
 signing or issuing of any warrant on the treasurer or other dis- 
 bursing officer of the state or such city or civil division thereof, 
 for the payment of, or for the treasurer or other disbursing officer 
 of the state or of such city or civil division thereof, to pay any
 
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 salary or compensation to any officer, clerk or other person in 
 the classified service of the state or of such city or civil division 
 thereof, unless an estimate, payroll or account for such salary or 
 compensation, containing the names of the persons to be paid, 
 shall bear the certificate of the state civil service commission, or 
 in case of the service of a city, the certificate of the municipal 
 civil service commission of such city, that the persons named 
 in such estimate, payroll or account have been appointed or 
 employed or promoted in pursuance of law and of the rules made 
 in pursuance of law. Any officer, clerk or other person entitled 
 to be certified by said commission, or either of them, to the comp- 
 troller, treasurer or other fiscal or disbursing officer of the state 
 or any city or civil division thereof, as having been appointed 
 or employed in pursuance of law and of the rules made in pursu- 
 ance of law, and refused such certificate, may maintain a proceed- 
 ing by mandamus to compel such commission or commissions 
 to issue such certificate. Any sums paid contrary to the provisions 
 of this section may be recovered from any officer or officers 
 making such appointment in contravention of the provisions of 
 law and of the rules made in pursuance of law, or any officer 
 signing or countersigning, or authorizing the signing or counter- 
 signing of any warrant for the payment of the same, and from the 
 sureties on his official bond, in an action in the supreme court 
 of the state, maintained by a citizen resident therein, who is 
 assessed for and is liable to pay, or within one year before the 
 commencement of the action, has paid a tax therein. All moneys 
 recovered in any action brought under the provisions of this 
 section must, when collected, be paid into the treasury of the 
 state or such civil division thereof, except that the plaintiff in 
 any such action shall be entitled to receive for his own use the 
 taxable costs of such action. 
 
 20. Preferences allowed honorably discharged soldiers, sail- 
 ors and marines. In every public department and upon all public 
 works of the state of New York and of the cities, counties, towns 
 and villages thereof, honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and 
 marines from the army and navy of the United States in the late 
 civil war who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be 
 entitled to preference in appointment and promotion without
 
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 regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment 
 or promotion may be made to all competitive and non-competitive 
 positions, provided their qualifications and fitness shall have been 
 ascertained as provided in this act and the rules and regulations 
 in pursuance thereof; and the persons thus preferred shall not 
 be disqualified from holding any position in the civil service on 
 account of his age or by reason of any physical disability, provided 
 such age or disability does not render him incompetent to perform 
 the duties of the position applied for. Whenever any list of 
 eligible persons, prepared under authority of this act, shall con- 
 tain the names of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and 
 marines entitled to preference as aforesaid any reference in this 
 act or in the rules and regulations in pursuance thereof to the 
 persons standing highest on such list shall be deemed to indicate 
 those standing highest of those entitled to preference by the 
 provisions of this section and such person shall be given prefer- 
 ence on any list of registered applicants for employment in the 
 labor service, in accordance with the dates of their several appli- 
 cations as though such applications had been filed prior to those 
 of any persons on such lists not entitled to the preference 
 provided by this section. A refusal to allow the preference pro- 
 vided for in this and the next succeeding section to any honorably 
 discharged soldier, sailor or marine or a reduction of his compensa- 
 tion (intended to bring about his resignation) shall be deemed 
 a misdemeanor, and such honorably discharged soldier, sailor or 
 marine shall have a right of action therefor in any court of compe- 
 tent jurisdiction for damages, and also a remedy by mandamus 
 for righting the wrong. 
 
 21. Power of removal limited. Every person whose rights 
 may be in any way prejudiced contrary to any of the provisions of 
 this section shall be entitled to a writ of mandamus to remedy the 
 wrong. No person holding a position by appointment or employ- 
 ment in the state of New York or in the several cities, counties, 
 towns or villages thereof, who is an honorably discharged soldier, 
 sailor or marine, having served as such in the Union army or navy 
 during the war of the rebellion and who is an honorably discharged 
 soldier, sailor or marine, having served as such in the volunteer 
 army or navy of the United States during the Spanish war, or
 
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 who shall have served the term required by law in the volunteer 
 fire department of any city, town or village in the state, or who 
 shall have been a member thereof at the tinfe of disbandment 
 of such volunteer fire department, shall be removed from such 
 position or employment except for incompetency or misconduct 
 shown after a hearing upon due notice, upon stated charges and 
 with the right to such employee or appointee to a review by a writ 
 of certiorari. If the position so held by any such honorably 
 discharged soldier, sailor or marine, or volunteer fireman shall 
 become unnecessary or be abolished for reason of economy or 
 otherwise, the said honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine, 
 or volunteer fireman holding the same shall not be discharged 
 from the public service, but shall be transferred to any brajnch 
 of the said service for duty in such position as he may be fitted 
 to fill, receiving the same compensation therefor, and it is hereby 
 made the duty of all persons clothed with power of appointment 
 to make such transfer effective. The burden of proving incompe- 
 tency or misconduct shall be upon the person alleging the same. 
 Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the 
 position of private secretary, cashier or deputy, of any official 
 or department. 
 
 22. Misdemeanor to obstruct right of examination ; false rep- 
 resentation; impersonation in examination. Any commissioner, or 
 examiner, or any other person who shall willfully by himself or in 
 co-operation with one or more persons, defeat, deceive or obstruct 
 any person in respect of his or her right of examination, or registra- 
 tion, according to any rules or regulations prescribed pursuant to 
 the provisions of this act, or who shall willfully and falsely mark, 
 grade, estimate or report upon the examination or proper standing 
 of any person examined, registered or certified, pursuant to the pro- 
 visions of this act, or aid in so doing, or who shall willfully make 
 any false representations concerning the same, or concerning the 
 person examined, or who shall willfully furnish to any person any 
 special or secret information for the purpose of either improving 
 or injuring the prospects or chances of any person so examined, 
 registered or certified, or to be examined, registered or certified, or 
 who shall personate any other person, or permit or aid in any man- 
 ner any other person to personate him, in connection with any
 
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 examination or registration, or application or request to be exam- 
 ined or registered, shajl for each offense be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor. 
 
 23. Recommendations for appointment or promotion. No- 
 recommendation or question under the authority of this act shall 
 relate to the political opinions or affiliations of any person whatever ; 
 and no appointment or selection to or removal from an office or em- 
 ployment within the scope of the rules established as aforesaid, shall 
 be in any manner affected or influenced by such opinions or affilia- 
 tions. No person in the civil service of the state or of any city or 
 civil division thereof, is for that reason under any obligation to con- 
 tribute to any political fund or to render any political service, and 
 no person shall be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing 
 so to do. No person in the said civil service shall discharge or pro- 
 mote or reduce, or in any manner change the official rank or com- 
 pensation of any other person in said service, or promise or threaten 
 so to do for giving or withholding or neglecting to make any con- 
 tribution of money or service or any other valuable thing for any 
 political purpose. No person in said service shall use his official 
 authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or 
 body, or to interfere with any election. 
 
 24. Political assessments prohibited. No officer, agent, clerk 
 or employee under the government of the state of New York or any 
 civil division or city thereof shall, directly or indirectly, use his 
 authority or official influence to compel or induce any other officer, 
 clerk, agent or employee under said government, or any civil 
 division or city thereof, to pay or promise to pay any political assess- 
 ment, subscription or contribution. Every said officer, agent, clerk 
 or employee who may have charge or control in any building, office 
 or room occupied for any purpose of said government, or any said 
 division or city thereof, is hereby authorized to prohibit the entry of 
 any person, and he shall not knowingly permit any person to enter 
 the same for the purpose of therein making, collecting, receiving or 
 giving notice of any political assessment, subscription or contribu- 
 tion ; and no person shall enter or remain in any said office, building 
 or room, or send or direct any letter or other writing thereto, for the 
 purpose of giving notice of, demanding or collecting a political 
 assessment, nor shall any person therein give notice of; demand, col-
 
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 lect or receive any such assessment, subscription or contribution; 
 and no person shall prepare or make out, or take any part in pre- 
 paring or making out, any political assessment, subscription or con- 
 tribution with the intent that the same shall be sent or presented to 
 or collected of any officer, agent or employee, subject to the pro- 
 visions of this act, under the government of the state of New York, 
 or that of any civil division or city thereof, and no person 
 shall knowingly send or present any political assessment, subscrip- 
 tion or contribution to or request its payment of any said officer, 
 agent or employee. Any person who shall be guilty of violating any 
 provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 25. Officers or candidates not to promise influence, et cetera ; 
 " public officer " and " public employee " defined. Whoever, 
 while holding any public office, or in nomination for, or while seek- 
 ing a nomination or appointment for any public office, shall cor- 
 ruptly use or promise to use, whether directly or indirectly, any 
 official authority or influence (whether then possessed or merely an- 
 ticipated) in the way of conferring upon any person; or in order 
 to secure or aid any person in securing any office or public employ- 
 ment, or any nomination, confirmation, promotion or increase of 
 salary, upon the consideration or condition that the vote or political 
 influence or action of the last-named person, or any other, shall be 
 given or used in behalf of any candidate, officer or party, or upon 
 any other corrupt condition or consideration, shall be deemed guilty 
 of bribery or an attempt at bribery. And whoever, being a public 
 officer, or having or claiming to have any authority or influence for 
 or affecting the nomination, public employment, confirmation, pro- 
 motion, removal or increase or decrease of salary of any public 
 officer, shall corruptly use, or promise, or threaten to use any such 
 authority or influence, directly or indirectly, in order to coerce or 
 persuade the vote or political action of any citizen or the removal, 
 discharge or promotion of any officer or public employee, or upon 
 any other corrupt consideration, shall also be guilty of bribery or 
 of an attempt at bribery. Every person found guilty of such bribery, 
 or an attempt to commit the same, as aforesaid, shall, upon convic- 
 tion thereof, be liable to be punished by a fine of not less than one 
 hundred dollars nor more than three thousand dollars, or to be im- 
 prisoned not less than ten days nor more than two years, or to both said
 
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 fine and said imprisonment in the discretion of the court. The phrase 
 " public officer " shall be held to include all public officials in this 
 state, whether paid directly or indirectly from the public treasury of 
 the state, or from that of any civil division thereof, or by fees or 
 otherwise ; and the phrase " public employee " shall be held to 
 include every person not being an officer who is paid from any said 
 treasury. 
 
 26. Attendance of witnesses ; fees. Witnesses and officers to 
 subpoena and secure the attendance of witnesses before said commis- 
 sion, shall be entitled to the same fees as are allowed witnesses in 
 civil cases in courts of record. Such fees need not be prepaid, but 
 the comptroller shall draw his warrant for the payment of the 
 amount thereof, when the same shall have been certified to by the 
 president of the commission, and duly proved by affidavit or other- 
 wise to the satisfaction of the said comptroller ; and all state, county, 
 town, municipal and other officers and their deputies, clerks, subor- 
 dinates and employees shall afford the said board all reasonable 
 facilities in conducting the inquiries specified in this act, and give 
 inspection to said board of all books, papers and documents belong- 
 ing, or in any way appertaining to the respective offices, and shall 
 also produce said books and papers, and shall attend and testify 
 when required to do so by said commission. 
 
 27. Taxpayer's action. The right of any taxpayer to bring 
 an action to restrain the payment of compensation to any person 
 appointed to or holding any office, or place or employment in viola- 
 tion of any of the provisions of this act, shall not be limited or 
 denied by reason of the fact that said office, or place or employment 
 shall have been classified as, or determined to be, not subject to 
 competitive examination; provided, however, that any judgment or 
 injunction granted or made in any such action shall be prospective 
 only, and shall not affect payments already made or due to such 
 persons by the proper disbursing officers, in accordance with the 
 civil service rules in force at the time of such payments. 
 
 28. Saving clause. All rules, regulations and classifications 
 for appointment or promotion in the civil service of the state or any 
 city or civil division thereof, not inconsistent with the provisions of 
 this act, established with the approval of the governor or the state
 
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 commission under authority of law prior to the passage of this act, 
 shall continue in full force and effect until annulled or amended pur- 
 suant to the provisions of this act; and the state civil service com- 
 missioners and the municipal civil service commissioners of any 
 city, now in office, appointed or designated under the provisions of 
 law prior to the passage of this act, shall continue in office until 
 their successors are appointed and qualify, and shall have the same 
 tenure and all the powers and duties which they would have if 
 appointed under the provisions of this act. All merit and eligible 
 lists of persons examined prior to the passage of this act, under the 
 civil service rules and regulations in force at the time of such exam- 
 inations, shall be continued in full force and effect as if formed 
 under the provisions of this act, subject, however, to such reason- 
 able regulation and revision as the rules shall prescribe. 
 
 29. Repeal. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto 
 annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed. All 
 other acts or parts of acts, whether general, special or local, and 
 all rules, regulations and classifications for appointment or promo- 
 tion in the civil service of the state or any civil division thereof, in- 
 consistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed ; pro- 
 vided, however, that any act done or right accruing, accrued or 
 acquired, or liability, penalty, or punishment incurred prior to the 
 passage of this act shall not be affected or impaired ; but the same 
 may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully, and to 
 the same extent, as if the several acts herein referred to had not been 
 amended or repealed. 
 
 30. When to take effect. This act shall take effect imme- 
 diately.
 
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 SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. 
 
 Laws of. 
 
 Chapter. 
 
 Sections. 
 
 1883 
 
 354 
 
 All. 
 
 1884 
 
 312 
 
 AIL 
 
 1884 , 
 
 357 
 
 All. 
 
 1884 
 
 410 
 
 All. 
 
 1886 
 
 29 ..; 
 
 All. 
 
 1887 
 
 464 
 
 AIL 
 
 1888 
 
 119 
 
 All. 
 
 1890 
 
 .., 67 
 
 All. 
 
 1892 
 
 577 
 
 All. 
 
 1894 
 
 681 
 
 AIL 
 
 1894 
 
 716 
 
 AIL 
 
 1894 
 
 717 
 
 All. 
 
 1895 
 
 344 
 
 All. 
 
 1896 
 
 821 
 
 All 
 
 1897 
 
 428 
 
 AIL 
 
 1898 
 
 184 
 
 All. 
 
 1898 
 
 186 
 
 All. 
 
 STATE OF NEW YORK, ) 
 
 ' ss ' 
 Office of the Secretary of State,] ' 
 
 I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in 
 this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript 
 therefrom, and the whole of said original law. 
 
 Given under my hand and the Seal of office of the Secretary 
 [L. s.] of State, at the City of Albany, this 2ist day of April, in 
 the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. 
 
 J. B. H. MONGIN, 
 
 Deputy Secretary of State.
 
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 PROVISIONS OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF 
 
 NEW YORK. 
 
 Laws of 1901, Chapter 466. 
 
 AUTHORITY AND DUTY OF COMMISSIONERS OF MUNICIPAL CIVIL 
 SERVICE. 
 
 125. The municipal civil service commission shall have the 
 power to make investigations concerning all matters touching the 
 enforcement and effect of the provisions of the civil service law, 
 in so far as it applies to The City of New York, and the rules and 
 regulations prescribed thereunder, or concerning the action of 
 any examiner or subordinate of the commission, or of any person 
 in the classified municipal service, in respect to the execution 
 of that act, and in the course of such investigations each com- 
 missioner and the secretary shall have the power to administer 
 oaths. The municipal civil service commission shall have the 
 further power to subpoena and require the attendance of witnesses, 
 and the production thereby of books and papers pertinent to the 
 investigations and inquiries hereby authorized, and to examine 
 them, and such public records as it shall require in relation to 
 any matter which it is required to investigate. For this purpose 
 the commission shall possess all the powers conferred by the code 
 of civil procedure upon a board or committee and may invoke the 
 power of any court of record in the state to compel the attendance 
 and testifying of witnesses or the production thereby of books 
 and papers as aforesaid. 
 
 WARRANTS FOR PAYMENT OF SALARY OF PERSON WHOSE APPOINT- 
 MENT HAS NOT BEEN MADE UNDER CIVIL SERVICE LAW, PRO- 
 HIBITED. 
 
 126. Any officer of said city whose duty it is to sign or 
 countersign warrants, shall not draw, sign or issue, or authorize 
 the drawing, signing or issuing of any warrant on the chamber- 
 .lain or other disbursing officer of the city for the payment of 
 salary to any person in its service whose appointment or retention 
 has not been in accordance with the civil service law and its amend- 
 ments and of the valid rules in force thereunder.
 
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 VETERANS IN MUNICIPAL SERVICE. 
 
 127. All veterans either of the army or navy or the volunteer 
 fire departments, now in the service of either of the municipal 
 and public corporations hereby consolidated*who are now entitled 
 by law to serve during good behavior, or who cannot under exist- 
 ing law be removed except for cause, shall be retained in like 
 positions and under the same conditions by the corporation 
 constituted by this act, to serve under such titles, and in such 
 way as the head of the appropriate department or the mayor may 
 direct. 
 
 HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS ; CONTROL OVER SUBORDINATES ; REMOVAL. 
 
 1543. The heads of all departments and all borough presi- 
 dents (except as otherwise 'specially provided) shall have power 
 to appoint and remove all chiefs of bureaus (except the chamber- 
 lain), as also all clerks, officers, employees and subordinates in 
 their respective departments, except as herein otherwise specially 
 provided, without reference to the tenure of office of any existing 
 appointee. But no regular clerk or head of a bureau, or person 
 holding a position in the classified municipal civil service subject 
 to competitive examination, shall be removed until he has been 
 allowed an opportunity of making an explanation ; and in every 
 case of a removal, the true grounds thereof shall be forthwith 
 entered upon the records of the department or board or borough 
 president, and a copy filed with the municipal civil service. In 
 case of a removal, a statement showing the reason therefor shall 
 be filed in the department. The number of all officers, clerks, 
 employees, laborers and subordinates in every department shall 
 be such as the heads of the respective departments and borough 
 presidents shall designate and approve, not exceeding the number 
 limited by any ordinance of the board of aldermen. The duties 
 of all such officers, clerks, employees, laborers and subordinates 
 shall be such as the heads of the respective departments and 
 borough presidents shall designate and approve, subject to the 
 provisions of law and to the ordinances of the board of aldermen. 
 The salaries or wages of all such officers, clerks, employees, 
 laborers and subordinates in every department shall be such as 
 shall be fixed by the board of aldermen upon the recommendation
 
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 of the board of estimate and apportionment in the manner pro- 
 vided in this act. Any head of department or borough president, 
 may, with the consent of the board of estimate and apportionment, 
 consolidate any two or more bureaus established by law, and 
 may change the duties of any bureau; and it shall be the duty 
 of the head of the finance department to bring together all officers 
 and bureaus authorized to receive money for taxes, assessments 
 or arrears, in such manner that the payment of the same can be 
 made, as nearly as practicable, at one time and place, and in one 
 office. Every head of department or borough president, and every 
 officer of any of the counties contained within the territorial limits 
 of The City of New York, is empowered to make ratable deduc- 
 tions from the salaries and wages of the employees and subordi- 
 nates of his department or office on account of absence from duty 
 without leave ; provided, however, that nothing contained in this 
 section shall effect departments or offices as to which other pro- 
 vision is made by this act for deductions for absence or disci- 
 plinary fines and penalties. Wherever in any department or 
 institution an office, position or employment is abolished, or made 
 unnecessary through the operation of this act, or in any other 
 manner, or whenever the number of offices, positions or employ- 
 ments of a certain character is reduced, the person or persons 
 legally holding the office or filling the position or employment 
 thus abolished or made unnecessary shall be deemed to be sus- 
 pended without pay, and shall be entitled to reinstatement in the 
 same office, position or employment, or in any corresponding or 
 similar office, position or employment, if within one year there- 
 after there is need for his or their services. Whenever such offices, 
 positions or employments are abolished or made unnecessary, it 
 shall be the duty of the head of the department or institution to 
 furnish the names of the person or persons affected to the munici- 
 pal civil service commission, with a statement in the case of each 
 of the date of his original appointment in the service. It shall 
 be the duty of the municipal civil service commission forthwith 
 to place the names of such persons upon a list of suspended 
 employees for the office, or position, or for the class of work in 
 which they have been employed, or for any corresponding or 
 similar office, position or class of work, and to certify the said 
 persons for reinstatement, in the order of their original appoint-
 
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 ment, before making certifications from any other list. The failure 
 of any person on any such list for reinstatement to accept, after 
 reasonable notice, an office or position in the same, borough and 
 at the same salary or wages as the position formerly held by him 
 shall be held to be a relinquishment of his right to reinstatement 
 as herein stated.