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APPENDIX E.

Civil Service Regulations of the Various Cities

of the State.

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APPENDIX E.

Civil Service Regulations of the Various Cities of the State.

ALBANY.

Examiners.- Andrew B. Uline, chairman; John L. Van Valkenburgh, Edward J. Graham; William K. Brown, secretary.

Pursuant to the statutes of this State, to regulate and improve the civil service thereof, I, A. Bleecker Banks, mayor of the city of Albany, hereby prescribe the following regulations for the admission of persons into the public service of the city of Albany, to take effect from the date of their approval by the New York Civil Service Commission:

Regulation 1. These regulations shall apply to all positions in the public service of the city of Albany, with the following excep tions, required by the statute, namely:

First.- Officers elected by the people, viz.: The mayor, aldermen, justices of the city court, justices of the police court, police commissioners, school commissioners.

Second.--The subordinates of any of such officers, for whose errors or violation of duty said officer is financially responsible: Mayor's first clerk.

Third. The head or heads of any department of the city government, viz.:

1. Officers appointed by the mayor, viz.: Assessors, corpora tion counsel, excise commissioners, park commissioners.

2. Officers appointed by the common council on the nomination of the mayor, viz.: City chamberlain, city engineer and surveyor, city physician, city marshal, inspector of weights and measures, overseer of the poor, receiver of taxes, street commis sioner, superintendent of the alms-house.

3. Officers elected by the common council, viz.: Clerk of the common council, fire commissioners, members of the board of health, water commissioners, marshal of the city court.

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Fourth.- Persons employed in or who seek to enter the educational department of the city.

Fifth. 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, viz: Assistant corporation counsel, deputy chamberlain, deputy receiver of taxes, deputy overseer of the poor.

(As amended December 29, 1884.)

Regulation II.— No person in the public service is, for that reason, under any obligation to contribute to any political fund or purpose, or to render any political service, and no person shall be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing so to do.

Regulation III.- No person in the publie service, has the right to use his official authority or influence, to coerce the political action of any person or body.

Regulation IV.-The civil service of the city of Albany shall be classified as follows:

Schedule A.-1. All deputies of officers and commissioners duly authorized by law to act for their principals, and all persons whose official relations are necessarily strictly confidential to the head of the office in which they serve.

2. Clerks of boards and commissions who are by law required to be members of boards and commissions on which they serve, viz.: Secretary of the police commissioners, secretary of the fire commissioners.

3. Subordinate officers, who, by virtue of their offices, have personal custody of public moneys, for the safe keeping of which the head of the office is under a special bond.

Schedule B.- First.- Mayor's office; Mayor's second clerk.
Second. Assessor's office: Clerks.

Third.- Chamberlain's office: Clerks.

Fourth.- Office of the clerk of the common council: Deputy clerk.

Fifth.- Engineering

department:

inspector of paving, inspector of sewers.

Draughtsmen, rodmen,

supervising

Sixth.-Fire department: Assistant engineers, engineers, superintendent of fire alarm telegraph, assistant superintendent fire-alarm telegraph, operators of fire-alarm telegraph, janitors, superintendent hose depot, assistant superintendent hose depot, engineers of steamers, drivers, foremen, firemen, tillermen, clerk to commission.

Seventh.- Office of the overseer of the poor: Assistant overscer of the poor, examiners.

Eighth.- Police department: Captains, sergeants, patrolmen, roundsmen, court officers, detectives, clerks.

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