CLASS 39. BOILER FIREMEN. Grade A.-Boiler firemen, $1,000 or less. CLASS 40. BATH KEEPERS. Grade A.-Keepers, $1,000 or less. CLASS 41. PARK POLICE. Grade A.-Policemen. Grade B.-Station officers. Grade C.-Sergeants Grade D.-Captains. ALBANY, N. Y., July 1, 1897. The foregoing Civil Service Rules and Regulations for the city of Brooklyn, having been duly examined, are hereby approved by the New York Civil Service Commission. Attest: [L. S.] CLARENCE B. ANGLE, Secretary. Rules for the Civil Service of the City of Elmira. We, Frank P. Robinson, W. A. Jewett and Robert J. Round, the Civil Service Commissioners of the city of Elmira, N. Y., do hereby establish the following as the rules and regulations to carry into effect in said city chapter 428 of the Laws of 1897. FRANK P. ROBINSON, R. J. ROUND. Dated October 11, 1897, at ELMIRA, N. Y. RULE I.-DIVISIONS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE. 1. The Civil Service of the city shall be divided into the unclassified service and the classified service. 2. The unclassified service shall comprise all elective positions; all positions filled by election or appointment by the common council; all clerks of officers or boards holding elective positions or positions filled by election or appointment of the common council; all persons appointed by name in a statute; all persons appointed by the mayor, either with or without the confirmation of the common council; the cemetery superintendent; health officer and inspectors under the supervision and control of the board of health; clerk of the board of health; city engineer and surveyor; superintendent of public works; chief of police; police matron; chief engineer of the fire department; superintendent of public schools; secretary of the board of education; secretary of the board of health; all persons employed or who seek to enter the public service under the educational department of the city; the general foreman of streets, and all persons employed as laborers or day workmen, including all janitors of the public schools. 3. The classified service shall comprise all positions not included in the unclassified service. RULE II.-GENERAL PROVISIONS. 1. No information concerning the political or religious opinions or affiliations of any applicant or any person eligible for appointment shall be sought by the Civil Service Commissioners or the appointing person or body, and no discrimination by either said Commissioners or the appointing body shall be exercised, threatened or promised against or in favor of any applicant or eligible person because of his political or religious opinions or affiliations. 2. No person in the Civil Service of the city shall use his official influence to coerce the political action of any person or body, or shall dismiss or cause to be dismissed or make any attempt to procure the dismissal of, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of any person of the classified division of the Civil Service because of his political or religious opinions or affiliations. No person in the Civil Service of the city shall directly or indirectly use his authority or official influence to compel any other person in such service to pay or promise to pay any political assessment. RULE III.-APPOINTMENTS TO CLASSIFIED SERVICE. 1. No person shall be appointed to or employed in any position in the classified service until he shall have passed the examinations for merit and fitness, unless the position to which he is appointed is especially exempted by these rules and regulations or statute; and except also that promotions may be made as hereinafter provided. 2. All examinations shall be practical in their character, and shall relate to those matters which shall fairly test the intelligence, competency, suitability and character of the applicants to discharge the duties of that service for which they seek to be appointed. 3. Applications for examination for merit must be addressed to the Secretary of the Civil Service Commissioners, City Hall, Elmira, N. Y., and the applicant must state therein, on oath, and in his own handwriting-(a) his full name, residence, giving street and street number; (b) his term of residence in the city; (c) his citizenship; (d) his date of birth and place of birth; (e) his previous employment in the public service, if any; (f) his business or employment for the last preceding five years; (g) the extent, place and nature of his education; (h) if in the military or naval service of the United States in the late war the name of the organization or vessel to which attached, date of enlistment or commission, position or rank, date and cause of discharge from the service, and any physical disability incurred in such service. The application must be accompanied by the certificate of not less than three nor more than five citizens of the city that they have been personally acquainted with the applicant for at least one year, and believe him to be of good moral character, of temperate and industrious habits, and in all respects fit for the service which he wishes to enter, and that they are willing that such certificate shall be published for public information. The applicant must also state the position he seeks. Defective applications will be suspended and applicants notified to amend the same, but no such notice will be given or opportunity granted the second time. 4. The minimum percentage of rating necessary to entitle an applicant to a place upon the list of persons eligible for merit shall be thirty-five. The names of persons who have passed above such minimum percentage will be entered on the list in the order of their rating. Such eligibility shall continue for one year. 5. Upon the application in writing of any person or body having the appointing power, the Civil Service Commissioners will certify to such person or body a list containing the names and the rating of all the applicants for the office or offices to be filled, upon the merit list therefor. The Civil Service Commissioners will also, upon the written request of the person or body having the appointing power, furnish him or it with the applications and examination papers of all persons so certified or any thereof. All papers furnished upon such requisition must be returned to the secretary of the Commissioners. 6. The secretary of the Civil Service Commissioners will duly notify all applicants of examinations for merit at which they are to appear. 7. The appointing person or body shall cause a competitive examination for fitness of the persons named upon such list, to be held, and shall give notice to such persons to appear at a specified time and place for the purpose of being examined by him or it in relation to their fitness for the position named and to be filled. The minimum rating for fitness shall be 35 per cent. and no person whose rating is lower than such minimum shall be eligible for appointment. S. The rating for fitness shall be added to the rating for merit of each applicant. The result so obtained constitutes the eligible list for appointment, and appointments must be made therefrom in the order of the combined rating of each applicant. 9. Whenever there are urgent reasons for making an appointment, and there is no merit list from which an eligible list for appointments may be made, the appointing person or body may make such appointment temporarily until a selection and ap pointment can be made from an eligible list for appointment. 10. There shall be no permanent list for appointment. Examinations for fitness sall be made immediately prior to appoint. ments. RULE IV.-FALSE STATEMENTS. 1. Every false statement knowingly made by any person in his application for examination, and every connivance by him at any false statements made in any certificate which may accompany his application, or any wilful complicity by him in any fraud to improve upon his examinations shall be regarded as good cause for removal or discharge of such person from his office. RULE V.-PROMOTIONS. 1. Promotion shall in all cases be based upon the positive merits and fitness of the person promoted, and upon his superior qualifications as shown by his previous service. Whenever the appointing person or body deems it practicable, it shall be made only after a competitive examination for fitness. |