ination and payment, as required by law, and one of said duplicates shall accompany the warrant on the treasurer or other disbursing officer. 2 For payments for irregular or occasional services, the head of such a department, office or institution shall transmit to the commission the original account or a special payroll bearing his written approval, which approval shall be deemed to be a certifi cate of the facts required by the preceding section to be certified on the regular payrolls. Upon examination and certification by the commission such account shall be forwarded to the cham'berlain or other fiscal officer. 3 The secretary of the commission shall compare such payroll or account for services with the official roster and shall attach thereto or place thereon a certificate in form substantially as follows: I hereby certify that the persons named in the above payroll occupying positions in the classified service, have been appointed or employed in pursuance of the civil service law and of the rules made in pursuance of said law (chap. 370, laws 1899). Secretary, Municipal Civil Service Commission The commission may designate an employee in its office as assistant secretary for the purpose of making certificates in such cases, in the absence of the secretary. 4 Upon satisfactory evidence that, with intent to evade the provisions of law and of these rules, any person appointed to or employed in any position in the classified service has been assigned to perform duties other than those for which he was examined and certified, or under any title not appropriate to the duties to be performed, the commission will refuse certification of such person for payment of compensation and remove his name from the official roster. RULE XXXVIII When rules take effect These rules shall take effect on and after the date of their approval by the State Civil Service Commission of the state of New York. Classes The following is a list of the offices and positions in the civil service of the city of Albany, classified in accordance with the foregoing rules, and therein referred to: UNCLASSIFIEd Service First-Officers elected by the people, viz: the mayor, the recorder, aldermen, justices of the city court, justices of the police court. Second-The head or heads of any department of the city government, viz: 1 Officers appointed by the mayor, viz: assessors, corporation counsel, school commissioners, police commissioners, water commissioners, park commissioners, examining board of plumbers, district physicians. 2 Officers appointed by the common council on the nomination of the mayor, viz: city chamberlain, city engineer, city physician, city marshal, fire commissioners, inspector of weights and measures, members of the board of health, overseer of the poor, receiver of taxes, street commissioner, superintendent of the almshouse. 3 Officer elected by the common council, viz.: clerk of the common council. Third-Persons employed in or who seek to enter the public service as superintendents, principals or teachers under the educational department of the city: all superintendents, principals and teachers employed by the board of public instruction. CLASSIFIED SERVICE Exempt class Assistant corporation counsel. Deputy chamberlain. Deputy receiver of taxes. Deputy overseer of the poor. Deputy engineer and surveyor. Secretary of board of fire commissioners. Competitive class First-Mayor's office: mayor's second clerk. Third-Chamberlain's office: clerks. Fourth-Office of the clerk of the common council: deputy clerk. Fifth-Engineering department: assistant engineers, draughtsmen, rodmen, inspectors of sewers, inspectors of paving, chainmen, levelers. Sixth-Fire department: assistant engineers, supervising engineers, superintendent of fire-alarm telegraph, assistant superintendent fire-alarm telegraph, operators of fire-alarm telegraph, lineman, batterymen, superintendent hose depot, assistant superintendent hose depot, engineers of steamers, fireman of steamers, drivers, foremen, tillermen, permanent hosemen and laddermen, clerk to commission, relief truckmen, firemen, engineers and drivers. Seventh-Office of the overseer of the poor: assistant overseer of the poor, examiners. Eighth-Police department: captains, sergeants, patrolmen, court officers, detectives, clerks, station-house keepers, police matrons. Ninth-Park department: head gardener, clerk. Tenth-Receiver of taxes office: clerks. Eleventh-Health department: clerk, inspectors, inspector of garbage, bathhouse keeper, bathhouse attendants. Twelfth Street department: superintendent of streets, clerks, bridgetenders in the employ of the city. Thirteenth-Water department: clerks, engineers, firemen, foremen, assistant foremen, machinists, inspectors, tappers, timekeepers, head keeper. Fourteenth-The janitor of the city building, the assistant janitor of the city building. Fifteenth-Department of public instruction: superintendent of school buildings and repairs, clerks, stenographer, janitors and caretakers of school buildings. The competitive class includes, furthermore, all clerks, copyists, recorders, stenographers, bookkeepers and others rendering clerical services, and not included in the exempt class, and all policemen, firemen, messengers, orderlies, court attendants, guards and keepers in station-houses, and all persons employed or appointed in the public service and not specially included in the exempt, non-competitive and labor classes. Non-Competitive Class The non-competitive class shall include such positions as are not in the exempt class, and which it is impracticable to include in the competitive class. It shall comprise the following positions and such positions as may hereafter be added; provided, that from time to time, the commission shall transfer positions from this class to the competitive class whenever it may be found practicable to hold competitive examinations to fill them: 1 Chief of police. Chief engineer of the fire department. Engineer and secretary of park commissioners. Superintendent of the waterworks. Secretary of the board of health. Master mechanic of waterworks. Mayor's first clerk. Labor Class First-Park department: laborers, teamsters, gardeners. Second Street department: laborers, cartmen, teamsters. Third-Water department: general laborers, day workmen, oilers, caulkers, watchmen, keepers, coal passers. Fourth-The labor class shall include all persons employed as laborers or day workmen. Respectfully submitted for approval. JOHN WALLACE JAS. H. LEAKE CHAS. B. TILLINGHAST Commissioners Approved, Albany, May 17, 1899 THOS. J. VAN ALSTYNE Mayor STATE OF NEW YORK OFFICE OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION ALBANY, June 27, 1899 The foregoing civil service rules for the city of Albany, having been duly examined, are hereby approved by the State Civil Service Commission. Attest JOHN C. BIRDSEYE Assistant Secretary Under date of July 15, 1899, the Commission addressed the following letter to the several municipal civil service commissions of the cities of the state: "I send to you, under separate cover, by direction of the State Civil Service Commission, copies of the state civil service rules and the Albany city civil service rules. These rules have been prepared after careful consideration and it is the desire of the Commission that the rules for your city shall contain, so far as applicable, all the requirements that are included in these rules. It is the the wish of the Commission that all municipal rules shall |