Civil Service Rules and Regulations of the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., Adopted by the Civil Service Commission of

Brooklyn, on June 16, 1897.

Commissioners.-Alexander E. Orr, chairman; Jackson Wallace, vice-chairman; Truman J. Backus, Edward B. Jordan, Ludwig Nissen, George A. Price, Arthur S. Somers. Edward B. Lent, secretary.

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS.

REGULATION I.

Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the city of Brooklyn shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive.

APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS.

REGULATION II.

For the purpose of conducting the inquiries and examinations for merit, the mayor shall appoint seven suitable persons, citizens of Brooklyn, who shall constitute the Civil Service Commission of Brooklyn (hereinafter for brevity also called "The Commission"), and each member of which shall be known as a Civil Service Commissioner of Brooklyn. Not more than four of the Commissioners shall belong to the same political party, and no one of them shall be otherwise in the employ of the city. Each Commissioner shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, take and file with the city clerk an oath, in the general form prescribed for other city officers.

The mayor may, at any time, by filing with the city clerk a written notification of the change, appoint another citizen in place of any one so appointed, who shall thereupon cease to be such Commissioner. The Commissioners shall serve without pay.

The Commissioners shall from their number choose a chairman and a vice-chairman to act during their pleasure; and they may, from time to time, designate committees from their own number and may employ experts to conduct any of the various examinations and classes of examinations. The schedule of rating of the candidates, and the certificate or certificates upon each examination, and of recommendation, shall be signed by the chairman of the Commission. During the absence or inability to act of the chairman or vice-chairman, a temporary chairman, chosen by the Commission from its own number, may, in all respects, act as chairman.

The Commission may appoint and employ a secretary, a stenographer and typewriter, and such clerks and assistants as said Commission may consider necessary, and may fix the salaries or compensation of the persons so appointed and employed; and said Commission may also appoint and employ assistant examiners or experts, and may fix the compensation to be paid to them for their services, and may otherwise incur expenses not to exceed in the aggregate the amount which may have been appropriated for the expenses of said Commission.

The secretary of the Commission shall, under the direction of the Commission, keep minutes of its proceedings, and all necessary records of applicants, their examinations and standings, and a complete record of all persons employed in the several departments to which these regulations apply, and of all appointments, promotions, dismissals, resignations and changes of any sort therein.

All official action taken by the mayor under these regulations shall be recorded in writing under his own signature, and shall be filed among the papers of the Commission.

CLASSIFICATION OF POSITIONS.

REGULATION III.

These regulations shall apply to all positions in the public service of the city of Brooklyn, with the following exceptions specified in chapter 354 of the Laws of 1883, as amended by chapters 357 and 410 of the Laws of 1884, viz.:

"Officers elected by the people and the subordinates of any such officer for whose errors or violation of duty said officer is financially responsible, and the head or heads of any department of the city government, and persons employed in or who seek to enter the public service under the educational department of any city, and any subordinate officer who, by virtue of his office, has personal custody of public moneys or public securities, for the safe keeping of which the head of an office is under official bonds."

Appendix A, entitled "Excepted Positions," specifies the officers so excepted.

REGULATION IV.

The several clerks and persons employed, or being in the public service of Brooklyn, are hereby, pursuant to the provisions of the said act, first classified as follows (the excepted class being heretofore stated in Regulation III):

Schedule A shall include all persons who are not employed as laborers or day workmen, and who are not to be appointed upon competitive examination. The positions in Schedule A are specified in Appendix B, which is to be deemed part of these regulations, entitled "Positions in Schedule A.”

There shall also be included in Schedule A, in the event of an epidemic or other similar emergency, in which the public health is seriously endangered, such experts and special inspectors as the commissioner of health may, with the written approval of the Commission, appoint. Such appointment shall, however, continue only during the existence of such epidemic or similar emergency.

Schedule B shall include all persons who are to be appointed upon competitive examination.

Schedule D shall include all persons employed as laborers or day workmen. The positions in Schedule D are specified in Appendix C, which is to be deemed part of these regulations, entitled "Positions in Schedule D."

Any new position in any of the departments, or any position omitted from these schedules and the said appendices (and not within the excepted class), is also to be deemed included in these

regulations; and, if occasion should arise, such position will be assigned by the Commission to its proper schedule, under the provisions of Regulation XLIII. Until so assigned, any such position shall be deemed to be in Schedule B, and in the class and grade therein, if any, containing positions like such new or omitted position. If there be no such class and grade, then a new class or a grade shall be constituted by the Civil Service Commission, to include such new or omitted position.

REGULATION V.

The several clerks and persons employed or being in the public service of Brooklyn, and included in Schedule B, are hereby, pursuant to the provisions of the said act, further arranged in classes as shown in the Appendix D, which is to be deemed part of these regulations, entitled "Classification of the positions in Schedule B, for the purposes of examination."

APPLICATION.

REGULATION VI.

Applications of competitors for positions included in Schedule B must be made in the form prescribed by the Commission, which form shall be spread in full upon the minutes of the Commission at the meeting at which it is adopted. All applications must be addressed to the "Secretary of the Civil Service Commission, City Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y.," and must be accompanied by the following papers:

First. The affidavit of the applicant that he is a citizen of the United States, giving his address and stating the place, street and number of his residence for the last preceding year; his age and place of birth; the extent, place and nature of his education, and also of his business training and experience, and whether he has ever been in official service before, and, if so, when and where; and also whether he was honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States during the War of the Rebellion-in such case the discharge, or a duly certified copy thereof from the War or Navy Department at Washington, D. C., must be submitted with the application.

Second. The certificates of not less than five reputable citizens of Brooklyn, each certifying that he, individually, has been personally acquainted with the applicant for at least one year, and believes him to be of good moral character, of temperate and industrious habits, and in all respects fit for the service he wishes to enter, and that such citizen is willing that his certificate. should be published for public information. Certificates in favor of the applicant of present or former employers doing business or residing out of the city, will be received on the same basis as certificates of citizens of Brooklyn.

In case the applicant resides out of Brooklyn, two of the citi zens making such certificates may be residents of the applicant's place of residence.

REGULATION VII.

Defective applications will be suspended and applicants notified to amend the same; but no such notice will be given or opportunity granted a second time. Whenever the application does not show that the applicant is within the prescribed limits. of age, and is otherwise qualified under the regulations, the application will be rejected.

REGULATION VIII.

Registers of all applicants shall be kept by the Secretary of the Commission. When the applicants on a register for any one position, or for several positions for which one examination may be had, are in excess of such number as can be examined conveniently on the same day, the applicants will be notified to appear for examination in their order on the register.

REGULATION IX.

All applicants for appointment in the police department as patrolmen, that is to say, in Schedule B, Class 8, First Grade A, or in the park department as park policemen, that is to say, in Schedule B, Class 44, must have the following special qualifi

cations: