Group D. Engineers, which term shall include all positions where qualifications of an engineering or cognate character are required. Subdivision 1. Civil engineers. 2. Levelers, surveyors, rodmen. 3. Chainmen. 4. Architects. 5. Architectural draftsmen. 6. Engineering draftsmen. 8. Electrical engineers, dynamo tenders, 9. Steam engineers, firemen, engine drivers. Group E. Inspectors, which term shall include all positions, the duties of which are the inspection of materials or workmanship or the supervision of laborers. Subdivision 1. Superintendents of construction or repairs when not civil engineers or architects. 2. Inspectors of masonry, iron work and other materials and workmanship. 3. Electrical inspectors. 4. Overseers, foremen. Group F. Special agents, which term shall include all positions requiring detective ability. Subdivision 1. Examiners for the banking department. 2. Examiners for the insurance depart ment. 3. Examiners for the Comptroller and other State officers. Subdivision 4. Examiners for State boards and com missions. 5. Deputy factory inspectors. 6. Special excise agents. 7. Inspectors of milk, butter, cheese, vine gar, etc. Group G. Law positions, which term shall include all positions requiring some legal knowledge. Subdivision I. Law clerks, brief clerks, statutory revision clerks, clerks in other offices, whose duties require some legal 2. Corporation examiners and clerks. Group H. Medical positions, which term shall include all positions requiring medical or pharmaceutic knowledge. Subdivision 1. Superintendents of asylums and hospitals, who are necessarily physicians. 2. Physicians, surgeons. 3. Medical examiners. 4. Medical internes. 5. Pathologists. 6. Health officers. 7. Sanitary experts and inspectors. 8. Pharmacists, apothecaries. 9. Veterinarians. Group I. Mathematicians, which term shall include all positions requiring special mathematical qualifications. Subdivision 1. Actuaries, statisticians, computers. 2. Expert accountants. Group J. Scientists, which term shall include all positions requiring special scientific knowledge. Subdivision 1. Geologists. 2. Paleontologists. 3. Botanists. 4. Entomologists. 5. Bacteriologists. Group K. Agriculturists, which term shall include all positions requiring agricultural or horticultural knowledge, including arboriculture and the breeding and care of domestic animals. Subdivision 1. Agriculturists, farmers. 2. Horticulturists, gardeners, arboricul turists. Group L. Instructors, which term shall include all positions, the duties of which are scholastic instruction, or to educate or test the ability to instruct. Subdivision 1. Principals of schools. 2. Teachers in all branches, other than such as are otherwise specially pro vided for in this classification. 3. Examiners of educational and scholastic qualifications. Group M. Mechanics and craftsmen, which term shall include all positions requiring special mechanical skill, or as tradesmen, not classed as laborers. Subdivision 1. Mechanics, craftsmen and tradesmen, whose duties shall be actual service as such. 2. Instructors in any handicraft or me chanical or other trade. Group N. Miscellaneous positions, which term shall include all positions requiring expert or other qualifications not embraced in the exempt or noncompetitive classes, or in other groups in this class. Subdivision 1. Superintendents of institutions, who are not necessarily physicians or in structors. 2. Chief and assistant librarians. 3. Interpreters. 4. Proofreaders. 5. Superintendents of hatcheries. 6. Other positions, except those specifically named in this classification as in other groups or hereafter included in them. 1. The omission in the above classification of any official designation or appellation of a position in the service shall not exclude such position from the classification, as it will be comprised in the group and subdivision to which it belongs by the general definition and specifications of such group and subdivision. 2. The Commission may further subdivide for the purposes of examination the positions in any group or subdivision thereof, so as to test practically the special qualifications requisite for such positions. 3. The classification of all positions shall be governed solely by the respective duties and functions of such positions, and in requesting from the Commission certifications from eligible lists for selection for appointment, the heads of offices shall give in detail the duties attached to such positions, and shall name so near as may be the groups and subdivisions that comprise respectively such duties. and functions. 4. For the purpose of orderly arrangement and of regulated promotion, the positions in each subdivision of each group shall be divided into grades based upon the rates of annual compensation. Grades of employment fixed by law, or by regulation of any department, office or institution made in pursuance of law, shall be the grades for purposes of promotion under this rule. In all other cases positions shall be graded as follows: Grade 1. All positions, the compensation of which is at the rate of not more than $600 per annum. Grade 2. All positions, the compensation of which is at the rate of more than $600, but not more than $900 per annum. Grade 3. All positions, the compensation of which is at the rate of more than $900, but not more than $1,200 per annum. Grade 4. All positions, the compensation of which is at the rate of more than $1,200, but not more than $1,400 per annum. Grade 5. All positions, the compensation of which is at the rate of more than $1,400, but not more than $1,600 per annum. Grade 6. All positions, the compensation of which is at the rate of more than $1,600, but not more than $1,800 per annum. Grade 7. All positions, the compensation of which is at the rate of more than $1,800, but not more than $2,100 per annum. |