commission for the purpose of verification, or otherwise, and if the same shall have been regularly and properly kept, they shall constitute one of the elements in such promotion examination, with such relative weight as shall be assigned to them by the examining board, subject to the approval of the municipal commission. If such records have not been regularly and properly kept the chief examiner shall prescribe such tests as to him may seem best calculated to determine the relative merit and fitness of persons entitled to enter the promotion examination, subject to the approval of the municipal commission. On receiving the notification of an appointing officer that a vacancy exists which is to be filled by promotion, the municipal commission, after consultation with such officer, shall set the earliest date practicable for the examination required under this rule and shall publish the same, by notice, posted conspicuously in the department, office or institution in which such vacancy exists and communicated to those eligible for such examination. No person shall be promoted from any position in Schedule G to any position classified as subject to competitive examination, unless such person shall have served the city creditably for a period of three years in the department in which he is employed, and then only when the promotion is in accordance with these rules, and is in the direct line of duty and according to grade, and the person named shall pass an examination of the same character as required for original appointment to said position. It shall be the duty of the officer or officers constituting the appointing power in the department in which a vacancy exists to make and forward to the municipal commission a certified copy of the record of the department, showing the efficiency, character and conduct of every person in such inferior grade who desires to become an applicant for such promotion. The municipal commission shall not be bound to accept such certified copies as final, but may in their discretion call for the original records instead. The municipal commission or examining board shall have the right to call upon the appointing officer for further information upon any of the matters before them. Whenever there are less than three persons eligible for promotion to fill a vacancy and willing to compete therefor, or whenever an appointing officer wishes to promote uniformly all persons in a particular grade entitled to compete, the person or persons nominated by him may be promoted to the next higher grade, upon a certificate of the facts and on passing a non-competitive examination, approved by the commission. (11) Rule XLV is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: The provisions of this rule, or the provisions of rules XLVI and XLVII may be waived and the subjects and the weights attaching thereto may be fixed by the examining board, in its discretion, in the case of any position in Schedule B, except that of clerk; but the subjects and the weights in examinations for positions in any schedule shall be specified in the advance advertisement thereof. (12) Rule XLVII is hereby amended by striking therefrom the schedule designations "F" and "A, Part II" wherever they occur. (13) Rule LI is hereby amended by adding to the first para graph thereof the following: "Except that the provisions of this rule or the provisions of rules LII to LV, inclusive, shall not apply to candidates for positions in the street cleaning department." (14) Rules LVI and LVII as at present constituted are hereby stricken out and the following substituted therefor: The general examination for admission to offices or positions in Schedule D shall be in writing. The subjects of examination and the weights attached thereto shall be set in each case by the examining board. No person shall be admitted as a competitor for appointment to any position in Schedule D requiring technical or professional qualifications who shall not present satisfactory evidence that he has received a diploma or certificate from some reputable educational institution, showing that he has pursued in such institution with credit for two years a course of study adapted to qualify him for the position he seeks or for which his appointment is desired. He may, however, produce, in lieu of such diploma or certificate, certificates from one or more professional men of good standing to the effect that he has pursued with them or under their direction and with credit to himself, a course of study similar to that before mentioned, covering a period of three years. The examining board may require candidates for any. position classified in Schedule D, to present satisfactory evidence, or to pass a preliminary physical examination showing that they are free from any physical defect or disease likely to interfere with the proper discharge of their duties of the position sought. (15) Rule LVIII as at present constituted is hereby stricken out and the following substituted therefor: RULE LVIII SCHEDULE E The positions coming under Schedule E being of a miscellaneous character and the qualifications for examination being necessarily varied, the subjects of examination shall be selected by the examining board, but shall only be such as will fairly test the qualifications of the applicants for the positions desired. (16) Rule LIX as at present constituted is hereby stricken out and the following substituted therefor: RULE LIX APPOINTMENTS IN THE NON-COMPETITIVE CLASS Vacancies in positions in the non-competitive class may be filled by the appointment of such persons as upon proper non competitive examination shall be certified as qualified to discharge the duties of such positions by a designated board of examiners. The head of any department or institution in which a vacancy or vacancies may occur in this class may nominate for examination a person for each vacancy, but in any institution where a number of persons are employed in the same class of work the appointing officer may nominate for examination more than one person, in order to provide a list of quali fied persons from which an immediate selection may be made in case of vacancy. Such nomination may be made to the commission or directly to the examiners as the commission may by regulation prescribe. The municipal commission may at any time appoint and commission a board of examiners for positions of this class who may be officers or employees of the department or institution in which such positions exist. Such examiners shall transmit to the commission monthly a statement of the results of the examinations conducted by them, with the names of persons examined or appointed, and such other information as the commission may require. Examinations for positions in the non-competitive class shall be such as shall show (1) that the applicant is free from any physical defect or disease likely to interfere with the discharge of his duties, (2) that his general character is satisfactory, and (3) that he possesses the requisite knowledge and ability, or that he is qualified by experience to discharge his duties efficiently and intelligently. To preserve a uniform standard in qualifications for like positions and employments in different institutions, the com mission, after consultation with the appointing officers concerned, may at any time, by regulation, prescribe uniform limitations and tests, for the government of the examiners. Resolved, That the municipal civil service rules of the city of New York be and they are hereby amended as follows: (1) By striking therefrom appendix I, entitled "classification of the civil service of the city of New York," and by establishing a new rule to be known as rule LXVIII and to read as follows: RULE LXVIII Classification of the civil service of the city of New York I. THE EXEMPT CLASS Schedule A Including the following positions in the departments respectively named: Commissioners of accounts Chief accountant. Chief clerk. 13 Examiners of accounts. Chief engineer. 2 Examining engineers. 2 Stenographers to commissioners. Armory board Secretary of the board. Board of assessors Secretary of the board. Aqueduct commission Secretary to the commission. Auditor of accounts. Chief engineer. Stenographer to the president. 4 Division engineers. Department of bridges Deputy commissioner. Chief engineer. 4 consulting engineers. Secretary to the commissioner. Cashier in main office. Cashier in the office of the New York and Brooklyn bridge. Bellevue and allied hospitals Secretary to the president. |