MUNICIPAL CIVIL ticipation or influences of the appointing officer, or of any person other than the Municipal Commissioners, examiners or experts directly employed by the Municipal Commission. The Municipal Commission shall have power to authorize or to order the employment of an expert to assist any Board of Examiners, whether in a special case or in connection with the examinations for any special grade, position or office. Each examiner shall, exercise all due diligence to secure fairness and prevent all col lusion and fraud in the examination. All examinations shall relate to such matters as SERVICE RULES. RULE 20. ing on such question or paper, subject to the for a position in the Municipal Service as marked upon a scale of 100, which number RULE 21. mally certified by the examiners shall RULE 22. Handwriting shall be judged, first, by its will fairly test the relative capacity and fit- legibility (as to the ease with which it can ness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of that service to which they seek to be appointed. Excepting as these rules otherwise provide, the Board of Examiners may, in the examinations, give such relative importance to the different subjects or matters of examinations as to them may seem fit. RULE 15. All examinations shall be in writing, ex be read); second, from its appearance as to based on these three general characteristics, a cept such as refer to expertness or physical be so graded; the marking shall be only ac qualities, and except as herein otherwise provided. Whenever an oral examination shall be prescribed as part of any scheme of examination, a stenographic record of such oral questions and answers shall be made, and the transcript thereof shall be preserved with the examination papers of the candidate. RULE 16. The sheets of questions shall be numbered and shall be given out in the order of their numbers, each, after the first, being given only when the competitor has returned to the examiners the last sheet given to him. In general, no examination shall extend beyond five hours without intermission, and no questions given out at any session, to any candidate, shall be allowed to be answered at another session. Each candidate must complete his examination on the obligatory subjects before taking up any of the optional subjects. RULE 17. The time allowed for completing the examination shall be announced before the first paper is given out. For the obligatory subjects the examination shall be confined to a single day. At or before the commencement of every examination, the weight to be given every subject included in the examination, and the minimum, if any, allowable upon each subject, shall be announced to the applicants. The appointing officer shall state to the Municipal Commission, upon its request, the general qualifications or attainments, physical or mental, or both, which he deems necessary or proper in the position for which an eligible list is to be formed. RULE 18. No question in any examination or proceeding by or under these rules shall relate to political or religious opinions or affiliations, and no appointment or selection to or removal from an office or employment within the scope of these rules shall be in any manner affected or influenced by such opinions or affiliations. MARKING. The examination papers shall be reviewed by each examiner separately, except where otherwise directed by the Municipal Commission, and in any case of disagreement, the average of the markings made on any question or paper by all shall be the final mark cording to merit. In writing from dictation or copying from manuscript, the omission, repetition or substitution of words, the erasures, blots or other evidences of carelessness, shall, proportionately to their number, reduce the marking below 100. Words may be specially dictated for spelling, and the work shall be marked with reference to the ratio the misspelled words bear to the whole number. RULE 23. No applicant for the position of senior clerk, third grade, who receives in the ascertained average less than 80 per cent., or for any other position less than 70 per cent.. shall be placed upon the eligible list. No candidate for positions requiring technical or professional knowledge receiving less than 75 per cent. on the technical or special subjects shall be placed upon the eligible list. ex No applicant for the position of firemen or No applicant receiving 0 in any one sub- dates who seek promotion shall be required to This sheet should be promptly returned, as a failure to return it will be regarded as a refusal to certify to the character or compe tence of the applicant. cant? 2. Has he (or she) ever been employed by If he (or she) has ceased to work for you, why did he (or she) leave? (b) Was his (or her) work satisfactory? If not, in'what respect was it deficient? No person concerning whom recommendations are required shall be appointed to any ed to these questions by at least two of the sary, unless satisfactory answers are returnposition for which an examination is necespersons who have given such recommendations, or unless a satisfactory report of their answers shall have been made by the Character Examiner. RULE 26. The secretary may give a certificate to attained, and the proficiency in the several any person examined, except under Schedule G, stating the grade which such person subjects shown by the markings. APPEALS-REVISION. Complaints of injustice or unfairness on Board, or of any one acting under the Muthe part of any examiner or Examining shall, in all cases, be upon the applicant, the right to revise the marking and grading The burden of proof of good character such Municipal Commission, which shall have nicipal Commission, shall be considered by who may be required to furnish thereof, additional to the certificates required or otherwise act as substantial justice in evidence on the papers, or order a new examination, in the application. the premises may require. ELIGIBLE LIST. RULE 28. RULE 25. ex When a candidate shall have been amined, a circular letter, in the following form, shall be sent by the secretary to per- Eligible lists shall be prepared by the secsons who have given recommendation upon retary from time to time, as the needs of report of their answers shall have been made tions and grades in Schedules B, C, D, E his application paper, unless a satisfactory the service require, for the different posiby the Examiner of Character: and F. Upon each eligible list shall be placed MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISonly such persons as have been found by the To..... Examining Board to be duly qualified for the Sir-Apranded to the application of........ pared. The candidates shall be placed upon New York....... .189.. position for which such eigible list is pre SION. the eligible list in the order shown by the respective percentages of their aggregate markings upon their examinations, and when candidates have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the Civil War, that fact shall be indicated upon said list, and such candidates' names shall be placed at the head of the eligible list in the order shown by their respective percentages. Where an examination for any position or grade takes place before the eligible list for that position or grade is exhausted, a new eligible list shall be prepared after such examination, to take the place of the former eligible list. The persons upon the former eligible list who have not been examined for the new eligible list shall, unless a period of one year from the date of the original entry of their names on the former list has elapsed, be placed respectively upon the new eligible list in the position to which the percentages of their aggregate markings upon their former exam inations would entitle them if such markings had instead been given them upon the new examination. which the papers had not been completely cancies named by him, he shall not make se- RULE 29. Whenever a vacancy shall occur within any grade of any class in Schedules B, C, D, E or F, which, in the opinion of the appointing officer, the business of the city requires to be filled, he shall forthwith notify the Secretary of the vacancy and state whether the same is to be filled by appointment or by promotion, and the title of the position, the number of vacancies to be filled and compensation to be paid. If the position to be filled is a clerkship, the appointing officer shall state whether it is a minor clerkship, or whether any of the subjects are required, and if so, which. special qualifications denoted by the optional Appointments shall be made to or employment shall be given in all positions in the competitive class that are not filled by prounder the provisions of the Civil Service Law motion, reinstatement, transfer or reduction, graded highest in the open, competitive exand these rules, by appointment of those All positions filled by appointment based on optional subjects shall be specifically noticed in the published list of appointments in the official register. If the appoining officer shall certify that a person named in a certification has declined to accept a position offered, the Secretary may certify the name of the person standing next highest upon the eligible list of those already certified. In all cases where the appointing officer certifies that the person named failed to respond send notice to said person setting forth the to notice sent, the Secretary shall forthwith facts of the case, and if said eligible again fails to respond or fails to furnish satisfactory reasons therefor, the name of said eligible shall be stricken from the list. If a person who is not entitled to certifcation is certified and appointed, his appointment shall be immediately revoked by the appointing officer upon notification by the Municipal Commission. RULE 30. Notice shall within twenty-four hours be given in writing by the appointing officer to the Secretary, of the person or persons ap When two or more eligibles on a register have the same average percentage, preference in certification shall be determined by the order in which their applications were filed, but neither priority in the date of application nor of examination shall give any other aminations conducted by the Municipal Com-pointed, giving the application number, advantage in position on the registers of eligibles. In examinations for promotion, when two or more eligibles on a register have the same average percentage, preference in certification shall be determined by seniority in service. The term of eligibility for each eligible list for appointment or promotion is fixed at one year from the date of such list, unless, in the Interest of the public service, the Municipal Commission shall extend the term, but no eligible list shall remain in force for a period longer than four years. mission, except as otherwise provided in the Civil Service Law. The Secretary shall, as soon as practicable, certify to the appointing officer for appointment or for promotion from the eligible list appropriate to such position, the names of the persons graded highest as above provided, placing at the head of the list and indicating such of them as have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the Civil War. The certificate of the Secretary shall, in all cases, state the percentage of the maximum obtained by each of the persons certified. list most nearly appropriate for the group in Whenever an eligible certified for appointment shall fail to accept an offer of appoint- When a requisition is made to fill a position ment by mail within the four business days for which no eligible list exists, the Secretary next succeeding the mailing of notice of ap- shall, after a conference with the Chief Expointment he shall be deemed to have de-aminer, make certification from the eligible clined the appointment. An eligible who has declined an appointment shall not thereafter be certified for a position at the same or any less salary. Whenever one or more eligibles shall have declined any appointment offered If the appointing officer shall signify that atand an eligible whose relative standing is tainment in one or more of the optional sublower shall have been appointed to the posi-jects is essential, the Secretary shall certify tion the salary or compensation of such appointee shall not be increased within a period of six months after his appointment beyond that offered to the persons so declining. If the appointment shall be made of any person other than the one standing highest on the eligible list the appointing officer shall forward to the Commission, with the notice of appointment, copies of all correspondence to and from the persons declining such appointment, No person, while on the eligible list for any position, shall be allowed to take his or her name off sald list for the purpose of entering another examination to increase his or her rating, except at the end of nine months from the date of the eligible list, without the consent of the Commission. All eligible lists completed and in force on April 19, 1899, are hereby continued in force for the balance of the period of eligibility originally attaching to such lists, subject to the power of extension herein contained, except, however, eligible lists formed after separate fitness examinations, which are hereby abolished. Eligible lists from examinations completed prior to April 19, 1899, in the name of the person whose standing on the Whenever the appointing officer who shall appointment, and such other information as name, address, position, salary and date of the Municipal Commission may require, and a record of the same shall be kept by said Secretary. RULE 31. these rules shall be forwarded by the SecreNotice of all appointments made under tary of the Commission within five days to the City Record for publication. RULE 32. The Commission shall keep in its office an City of New York, and shall enter thereon official roster of the classified service of the been appointed to, employed, promoted or rethe name of each and every person who has instated in any position in such service upon isfactory that such person was appointed to, such evidence as it may require or deem satservice in conformity with the provisions of or employed, promoted or reinstated in the law and of these rules. The official roster shall show opposite, or in connection with each name, the date of appointment, employ-ment, promotion or reinstatement, and the office in which and the compensation of the position, date of commencement of service, and the date of transfer in or separation from the service by dismissal, resignation, cancellation of appointment, or death. any Within five days from the date of transfer, promotion, suspension, resignation, death or removal of any person holding a position in the service of the city, notice thereof shall be given in writing by the appointing officer to the Secretary, who shall keep a record of the same. Appointing officers of any department, office, bureau or institution whose employes are paid direct from the treasury of the city, shall furnish the Municipal Commission with pay-rolls showing the names of the persons to be paid, residence, title of position held or kind of service performed by each person, the rate and amount of compensation to which he is entitled and the period for which he is paid, and shall certify that the persons named therein are employed solely in the performance of the appropriate duties of the positions and employments indicated, and have not been assigned to perform duties appertaining to any other title. Upon satisfactory evidence that, with in MUNICIPAL CIVIL tent to evade the provisions of law and of these rules any person appointed to or employed in any position in the classified ser vice 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 the certification required by section 19 of the Civil Service Law, and remove the name from the official roster. RULE 33. When the services to be rendered by an appointee are for a temporary period, not to exceed three months, and the need of such service is important and urgent, the appointing officer may appoint from the appropriate eligible list in accordance with the second paragraph of Rule 29, any person willing to accept such temporary appointment, but the acceptance or declination of any such temporary appointment shall not deprive the appointee of his right to future certification for permanent appointment, nor shall said appointee be entitled to the privileges conferred by the provisions of the rules relating to promotion, transfer, and reinstatement. SERVICE RULES. higher shall be on the basis of ascertained RULE 37. An increase in salary or other compensation of any person holding an office or position within the scope of these rules beyond the limit fixed for the grade in which such office or position is classified, shall be deemed a promotion. Positions in the competitive class are graded according to the fixed limit of compensation, as follows: Group I. For all positions included in ule B: First Grade-Office boy (or girl). Annual Annual combut not more Whenever a vacancy is to be filled in any Sched-position in the competitive class above the lowest grade, the Municipal Commission shall forthwith arrange to hold a promotion examination limited to those persons who have for more than six months served with fidelity in the next lower grade in the same office, department or institution, provided, that if there are no persons who have served with fidelity for six months in the next lower grade, or provided all persons in the next lower grade fail in any promotion examination, then all persons in the next lower grade who have served with fidelity for six months in the same office, department or institution, shall have the right to compete in said promotion examination. On the request of the appointmit persons occupying two or more of the ing officer the Municipal Commission may per Fifth Grade-Senior clerks. Annual com- Sixth Grade-Senior clerks. Annual com- Seventh Grade-Senior clerks. Annual com- Successive temporary appointments shall not be made to the same position under this Group 2. For all positions included in Sched rule. RULE 34. ule C: Force of the Fire Depart ment. First Grade-Fireman. Annual compensa- Third Grade-Engineer of Steamer. Annual Whenever there are urgent reasons for All-Uniformed ing a vacancy in any position in the competitive class and there is no list of persons eligible for appointment after competitive examination, the appointing officer may nominate a person to the Municipal Commissionfor non-competitive examination, and if such nominee shall be certified by such Commission as qualified after such non-competitive examination, he may be appointed provisionally to fill such vacancy until a selection and appointment can be made after competitive examination, but such provisional appointment shall not continue for a longer period than one month, nor shall any provisionalĮ appointment in force at the time of the adoption and promulgation of these rules continue Fourth Grade-Foreman. Annual compen- Fifth Grade-Chief of Battalion, Annual Sixth Grade-Deputy Chief. Annual com- Seventh Grade-Chief. next lower grades to compete for the promo tion, reasons for such course being set forth in detail. Whenever after due trial it is found not practicable to fill a vacancy in any position through promotion in the manner herein prescribed, such vacancy shall be filled by original appointment through competitive examination in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 2 of Rule 29. No promotion can be made from a position in one class to a position in another class unless the same be specially authorized by the Municipal Commission, but a person employed in any position shall not, because of such appointment, be barred from the open competitive examination provided for original entrance to any other position. The test of actual service being the main for a longer period than one month, nor shall Uniformed Force of the Police Depart- factor for fitness in promotion, there shall be successive temporary appointments be made to the same position under this rule. PROBATION. RULE 35. Every original appointment to or employment in any position in the competitive class shall be for a probationary term of three months, and an appointing or nominating offcer in notifying a person certified to him for appointment or employment shall specify the same as for a probationary term only; and if the conduct, capacity and fitness of the probationer are satisfactory to the appointing offcer, his retention in the service, after the end of such term, shall be equivalent to his permanent appointment, but if his conduct, capacity or fitness be not satisfactory, he may be discharged at any time during the probationary term, without regard to any provision of law or of these rules limiting the power of removal. Every officer under whom any probationer shall serve during any part of his probation shall carefully observe the quality and value of the services rendered by such probationer, and his conduct, and if so required shall report in writing to the proper appointing officer the facts observed by him, showing the character and qualifications of such probationer, and of the service rendered by him, and such reports shall be preserved on file. PROMOTION. RULE 36. Promotion from the lower grades to the Annual com- Fifth Grade-Inspector. Annual compen- An tion of $900 or less. Third Grade-Leveler. Annual compensa or less. tention and general good conduct of all persons employed therein. Such records shall at all times be open to inspection to the Municipal Commission, and if the same 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. If such records have not been regularly and properly kept, the Chief Examiner shall prescribe such tests as to him may best seem calculated to determine the relative merit and fitness of the persons entitled to enter the promotion examination. The appointing officer shall notify the Municipal Commission of any vacancy in a position in his office to be filled by promotion, and thereupon, after consultation with the appointing officer the Municipal Commission shall direct a competitive examination of those entitled to enter the same under the provisions of this rule, and shall publish the same by notice, giving date and place, posted conspicuously in the office where such vacancy exists, and sent by mail 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 their joint or several certificates as to the efficiency, character and conduct of every person in such inferior grade who desires to become an applicant for such promotion and a copy of the record of said person in the department to which he belongs. The examining body shall have the right to call upon the appointing officer for further information upon any of the matters before them. RULE 39. Examiners of persons named for promotion shall personally question them concerning their office work and its purposes, in order to ascertain if they have a general and telligent knowledge of the business in the department in which they are employed, and may require the persons examined to give a written description of the work done by them and its relation to the duties of others. TRANSFER. RULE 40. and until a statement of the causes of such No person holding a position by appointment A person who has received a permanent appointment to any position in the competitive class may be transferred without examination to a position in the same class, in any other office, provided that for original entrance to the position proposed to be filled by transfer there is not required by these rules, in the opinion of the Municipal Commission, an examination involving essential tests or qualifications different from or higher than those involved in the examination for original entrance to the position held by the person proposed to be transferred, or provided he shall have served the city with fidelity for at least three years in a similar position; but this restriction shall not apply in case the name of such person shall be upon the eligible list for the position to which he is proposed to be transferred. No transfer shall be made from any position in the unclassified service to any position in the classified service, nor from any position in one class to any position in another class, nor from any position in any grade in the competitive class to any different grade in that class unless the same shall be specially authorized by the Municipal Commission, and such authorization shall be reported, with the reasons therefor, in the annual report to the State Civil Service Commission. Upon the written request of an appointing officer, stating the essential facts in regard to any proposed transfer, the Commission will, if such transfer be in accordance with law and the provisions of these rules, issue its certificate of that fact to such officer. AM transfers herein authorized shall be made only after the issuance of such certificate. DISMISSAL. RULE 43. service, and no person shall be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so. No person in said service shall use his official authority or 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 in such service because of his political or religious opinions or affiliations. SCHEDULE B. Clerical Positions. RULE 45. The general examinations for admission to positions in Schedule B shall be in writing and on the following subjects: RULE 47. 30 13 15 20 20 100 The process of ascertaining the absolute standing of each competitor shall be as follows: MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Subjects. Any person employed in any position in the Whenever in any department or institution an office or position is abolished, or whenever No person dismissed from the service for the number of positions of a certain character delinquency or misconduct shall be eligible to is reduced, the person or persons legally holdappointment in any capacity in any departing the office, or filling the position, shall be ment of the Municipal service within two entitled to reappointment to or reinstatement years. RULE 42. To secure compliance with the provisions of the Civil Service Law prohibiting removals because of political opinions or affiliations, no removal of any person in the classified service of the City of New York shall be valid unless in the said position or office if it is thereafter RULE 44. No person in the public service is for that reason under any obligation to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political tion The standing in each of the optional subjects in which any competitor is examined shall be marked on a scale of 100 and shall be recorded in the preceding form as there shown. A similar form shall be used in stating the result of examination for appointment to positions under Schedules A, Part II, C, D, E and F. At competitive examinations held for the position of Clerk, a separate eligible list will be made up having handwriting as its basis, and where a requisition is made calling for good handwriting rather than proficiency in the other required subjects, certification will be made from such eligible list. Public notice of this rule will be given before each examination. SCHEDULE C. Firemen and Patrolmen. RULE 48. MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE All applications for appointment to any position in Schedule C shall be made upon blanks furnished by the Secretary of the Municipal Civil Service Commission and Examining Board, and the same shall be filed in the office of the said Secretary. For all positions in said schedule, except for Doorman in the Police Department, the first of said blanks to be presented by the applicant in person, shall be substantially as follows: City of New York,... ........189.... Occupation Have you any disease now?.... RULE S. What diseases have you had during the last seven Do you know of any hereditary disease in your If your parents, brothers or sisters, or any of Have you ever had and fracture or dislocation?.... Are you subject to piles?... Applicant. The medical and physical examiners of the To the Municipal Civil Service Commissioners of Civil Service Boards shall examine the applithe City of New York: The undersigned states that he is........years of age, respectfully asks an appointment as ........in the Department, City of New York, and refers you to the following testimonials: Signed..... Each of the undersigned respectfully represents to the Commissioners of..... ....City any of New York, that he can and does hereby testify Residence.. Signature of officer administering oath. If the applicant has been in the military or naval service of the United States he should furnish the name and address of one or more of his surviving officers if practicable. In any case he shall give satisfactory evidence of honorable discharge. cant in reference to the matters designated in Name SCHEDULE. .Age......Residence B. Is the character of the Respiration Full, Easy B. C. Are there any indications of Disease of the C. A. IS THE CHARACTER of the Heart's Action A. B. C. A. B. B. Are its Sounds and Rhythm Regular and C. Are there any indications of Disease of this A. IS THE SIGHT good? B. Is the Hearing good? IS THE APPLICANT SUBJECT TO COUGH, A. ARE THE FUNCTIONS of the Brain and A. B. Has the Brain or Spinal Cord ever been Dis- B. IF THE APPLICANT has had any serious ill- HAS THE APPLICANT any predisposition, either c.t At forced piration......in ches. On full Inspiration......inches Stature and Weight.The stature shall not be below 5 feet 74 inches nor the weight below that marked as its minimum accompaniment in the subjoined table:** Height. Min. Weight Inches. Feet. Inches. Pound Circum- 5 5 Height. of chest. 33 34 5 9 34% 10 35 (a) In examining the sense of sight, not only partment the minimum height required is 5 feet (b) In the case of Patrolmen in the Police De (c) In the case of firemen in the Fire Department, the stature shall not be below 5 feet 61⁄2 inches, nor the chest measurement and weight 176 180 |