CIVIL SERVICE LAW CHAPTER 15, LAWS OF 1909. AN ACT in relation to the civil service of the state of New York and the civil divisions and cities thereof, constituting chapter seven of the consolidated laws. CHAPTER SEVEN OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS. CIVIL SERVICE LAW. ARTICLE 1. Short title; definitions (§§ 1, 2). 2. General provisions (§§ 3-28). 3. Classification of state employees (§§ 40-45). 4. § 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Civil Service Law." § 2. Definitions. When used in this chapter, 1. The term "commission" or "state commission means the state civil service commission. 2. The term "municipal commission" means the municipal civil service commission of a city. 3. The "civil service" of the state of New York or any of its civil divisions or cities includes all offices and positions of trust or employment in the service of the state or of such civil division or city, except such offices and positions in the militia and the military departments as are or may be created under the provisions of article eleven of the constitution. 4. The "state service" shall include all such offices and positions in the service of the state or of any of its civil divisions except a city. 5. The "city service" shall include such positions in the service of any city. 6. The term " appointing officer" signifies the officer, commission, board or body having the power of appointment to subordinate positions in any office, court, department, commission, board or institution. 12. Classification. 13. The exempt class. 14. The competitive class. 15. Exceptions from competitive examination. 16. Promotion; transfer; reinstatement; reduction. 18. The labor class in cities. 19. Official roster; reports of appointing officers. 20. Disbursing officers. 21. Preferences allowed honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines. 22. Power of removal limited. 23. Compensation of veterans reinstated by order of the courts. 25. Recommendations for appointment or promotion. 26. Political assessments prohibited. 27. Officers or candidates not to promise influence; "public officer " and "public employee" defined. 28. Taxpayer's action. § 3. State civil service commission.- The governor is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, three persons, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same political party, as civil service commissioners, and said three commissioners shall constitute the state civil service commission. They shall hold no other official place under the state of New York. The governor may remove any commissioner, and any vacancy in the position of commissioner shall be so filled by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, as to conform to said conditions for the first selection of commissioners. The three commissioners shall each receive a salary of three thousand dollars a year, and each of said com. missioners shall be paid his necessary traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of his duty as a commissioner. § 4. Officers and employees of the commission.- The commission may elect one of its members to be president, and may employ a chief examiner, a secretary, and such other officers, clerks and examiners as it may deem necessary or proper to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and such |