6. In applications for examination for positions requiring scientific, professional or technical qualifications, the Commission may require evidence of special education in, and of practical experience for a satisfactory term in, the science, profession, art or trade involved; and may require the production of such certificates of competency and licenses as are required by the statutes of this State, or by the ordinances of the city of Buffalo, preliminary to the practice of such science, profession, art or trade.

7. The Commission may prescribe such limits of age for any position where, in its judgment, the nature of the work to be performed so demands, subject to the provisions of law respecting veterans.

Rule X. Applications for Police Department

Applicants for examination for patrolman in the Police Department shall, in addition to the general requirements of Rule 9:

1. Be not less than 24 nor more than 30 years of age at the date of their examination and not more than 33 at the time of their appointment.

2. Be not less than 5 feet 10 inches, nor more than 6 feet 4 inches in height.

3. Shall have a chest expansion of not less than 3 inches and shall possess the minimum normal chest measurement fixed in the following schedule for their respective height:

4. Shall weigh not more than 10 per cent. above nor more than 5 per cent. below the standard weight according to their respective height and age as fixed in the following schedule:

Rule XI.

Applications for Fire Department

Applicants for examination for firemen in the Fire Department shall, in addition to the general requirements of Rule 9:

1. Be not less than 21 nor more than 30 years of age at the date of their examination and not more than 33 at the time of their appointment.

2. Be not less than 5 feet 7 inches, nor more than 6 feet 4 inches in height.

3. Shall have a chest expansion of not less than 3 inches and shall possess the minimum normal chest measurement fixed in the following schedule for their respective height.

4. Shall weigh not more than 5 per cent. above, nor more than 10 per cent. below the standard weight according to their respective height and age as fixed in the following schedule:

Rule XII. Applications for Positions in the Fire and Police Departments other than Patrolman or Fireman

Applicants for examination to positions in the Police and Fire Departments other than patrolman or fireman shall possess the physical qualifications prescribed for patrolman or fireman, except as to minimum height and weight, which latter shall be fixed by the Commission.

Rule XIII. Disqualification of Applicants

The Commission 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 he 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 misconduct; 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. Any of the foregoing disqualifications shall be cause for the removal of the name of such applicant from an eligible list or from the service after his appointment.

Rule XIV. Waiver as to Residence and Citizenship

The restrictions as to residence and citizenship may be waived by the Commission, as to all positions which require special, scientific or technical training and education, or in cases where, because of low compensation or other reason such requirements are disadvantageous to the public service, and also as to all positions in the hospital service.

1. All examinations shall be public and shall be practical in their character and relate to such matters as 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.

2. The Commission shall prepare lists of preliminary requirements and subjects of examination for the several positions or groups of positions in the Competitive Class, and shall, from time to time, prepare such examinations for the positions and groups of positions aforesaid as shall be pertinent to them.

3. The Commission may further direct oral examinations or practical tests of fitness for any particular positions requiring any scientific, professional or technical knowledge or manual skill.

4. When the position to be filled involves fiduciary responsibility, the appointing officer, where otherwise permitted by law, may require the appointee to furnish a bond or other security and shall notify the Commission of the amount and necessary details thereof.

5. Whenever physical qualifications are of essential importance to the proper discharge of the duties of any position, applicants must pass such physical examination as the Commission may require and must be certified as qualified in such respects, either before admission to the examination, or before record on the proper eligible list, or before certification for appointment, as the Commission may determine.

6. At least twenty days' public notice of examination shall be given by publication thereof, at least twice, in a city newspaper.

7. Examination papers shall be rated on a scale of 100, and the subjects therein shall be given such relative weights as the Commission may prescribe for each examination. The Commission may in any case require applicants to attain a specified percentage in any one or more subjects embraced within the examination. The subjects and weights for each examination and any specified percentage, not below 60, required in any one subject, shall be fixed and determined in advance and announced in the notice of the examination.

8. The Commission may retain, without examination, such assistants or experts, as it may require in conducting examinations for positions of a professional, scientific, technical or other expert character.

9. After an eligible list has been established, each competitor shall be notified of the result of his examination and of his relative standing on the list. Any competitor may, in person, or by his agent, authorized in writing, at such times as the Commission may prescribe, inspect his examination papers, and he may within fifteen days after the adoption of such eligible list, appeal to the Commission from the rating allowed him, which appeal shall be in writing and shall specify in detail his cause for complaint. No one shall be permitted to see any papers but his own or those of the candidate for whom he is acting as authorized agent.

10. The Commission shall have the power whenever in its judgment the interests of the public service require, to order a re-examination of applicants for any position; and it shall also have power to correct any error and to amend or revoke any eligible list or other paper or record, where it appears

that an error has been made or an injustice has been done. Whenever any person whose name appears upon any eligible list has for any reason become incapacitated for appointment to the public service, the Commission may strike such name from said list. The reasons for every such action above specified shall be recorded in full in the minutes of the Commission; and notice of such action shall be given by mail, or as the Commission may otherwise direct, to all persons whose standing upon such list may be unfavorably affected thereby.

Rule XVI. Suspension of Rule Requiring Competition

In case of a vacancy in any position in the Competitive Class, where peculiar and exceptional qualifications of a scientific, professional 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 selection of some designated person of high and recognized attainments in such qualities, the 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.

Rule XVII. Eligible Lists

1. The names of all competitors who attain an average percentage of 75 or over in any examination shall be entered on the eligile list or proper register, in the order of their average percentages; provided, however, that the names of competitors who have attained such average percentage and who claim and are entitled to preference in appointment in accordance with Article V, Section 9, of the Constitution, shall, after such preference has been allowed by the Commission, be placed in the order of their respective average percentages at the head of such register or list.

2. The term of eligibility for each eligible list shall be not less than one nor more than four years.

3. An eligible list which has been in force for over one year shall terminate upon the establishment and adoption of a new list for the same position; and all persons whose names appear upon any such eligible list shall be notified by mail of such termination and of the time and place when a new examination for such position is to be held.

Rule XVIII. All Appointments Subject to the Civil Service Law and These Rules

No appointing officer shall select or appoint any person for appointment, employment, promotion or reinstatement, except in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Service Law and these Rules.

Rule XIX. Appointments to, and Employments in, Positions in the Competitive Class

1. No person shall be appointed to or employed in any position in the Classified Service of the city, until he has passed an examination or is

shown to be especially exempted from such examination in conformity with these rules and the provisions of law.

2. 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.

Rule XX. Appointments to Positions in the Competitive Class. From the Eligible List

1. Appointments shall be made to, or employment shall be given in, all positions in the Competitive Cla's that are not filled by promotion, reinstatement, transfer, or reduction, under the law and rules, by appointment from among those graded highest in open competitive examination, on 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.

2. Whenever an appointing officer shall request a certification from which to make an appointment to, or give employment in, any position in the Competitive Class, he shall specify the title, duties and compensation of such position so that certification may be made from the proper eligible list. The Commission shall thereupon certify to the appointing officer the names of the three persons, if there be so many, standing highest on the proper eligible list. Such certification shall indicate those who are entitled to preference in appointment in accordance with Article V, Section 9, of the Constitution, together with the average percentages and post office addresses of such persons.

3. If the appointing officer shall notify the Commission of more than one vacancy, the Commission shall certify the names of as many persons as there are vacancies to be filled, and two names in addition thereto.

4. No person shall be certified to the same appointing officer for the same, or a similar position at the same rate of compensation, more than three times, except at the request of said officer; and also except such person be a veteran entitled to preference, in which case his name shall continue to be certified so long as it remains on the eligible list.

5. Whenever the sex of those whose names are to be certified is specified by law, or in the request for certification, the names of those only of the sex so specified shall be certified; but in all other cases certification shall be made without regard to sex.

6. When an eligible certified for appointment shall fail or refuse to accept, within the four business days next succeeding the mailing of an offer of appointment, he shall be deemed to have declined the appointment, and upon notice of such fact the Commission shall certify an additional name to replace the name of the person so declining.

7. The name of any person certified as eligible for appointment who shall decline an offer of appointment shall be stricken from the list from which