 Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the State, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far...  Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York - Page 560by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1906Full view - About this book
 | New York (State). Department of Civil Service - 1896 - 452 pages
...convention adopted and the people have inserted and added an entirely new section, which reads as follows : "Appointments and promotions in the Civil Service...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive. * * * Laws shall be made to provide for' the enforcement of this section." (§ 9.) The provisions of... | |
 | 1896 - 916 pages
...convention adopted and the people have inserted and added an entirely new section, which reads as follows: "Appointments and promotions in the civil service...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive. . . . Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section" (S9). The provisions of the... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1905 - 820 pages
...STOVER, J. (dissenting) : Section 9 of article 5 of the Constitution of the State of New York provides : "Appointments and promotions in the civil service...examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall l>e competitive ; provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1921 - 1108 pages
...violation of section 9 of article 5 of the State Constitution adopted in 1894, which provides as follows: " Appointments and promotions in the civil service of...as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practiFirst Department, December, 1920. [Vol. 194. cable, shall be competitive; provided, however,... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1912 - 1094 pages
...observed in this connection that the constitutional provision relating to the civil service and requiring merit and fitness to be ascertained so far as practicable...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive, is not selfexecuting, but that the civil service section in which it is found (Art. 5, § 9) further... | |
 | 1897 - 354 pages
...The provision of the constitution is, that all appointments in the civil service of the state and of the civil divisions thereof, including cities and...which so far as practicable shall be competitive. In the case of the People er rrl McClellan vs. Roberts (148 N. Y., 360,) the Court say: "If the legislature... | |
 | 1897 - 1084 pages
...that " appointments and promotions in the civil service of the State . . . shall be made according The Court holds that the Legislature is required to provide the methods for the enforcement of this... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Civil Service - 1898 - 1166 pages
...classes wherein a preliminary examination is required. The Constitution therefore was made to read ('article V, section 9): "Appointments and promotions...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive." In the case of Chittendeu v. Wurster, 132 NY, 345, Judge Haight, speaking for a majority of the court,... | |
 | David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield - 1898 - 1206 pages
...370. The civil service section of the constitution of ,\~eu> York (art. 5, § 9), which provides that appointments and promotions in the civil service of...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive, contemplates the existence of positions for which a competitive examination is not practicable. Under... | |
 | New York (State). Civil Service Commission - 1898 - 1204 pages
...the meaning, scope and application of a new provision which has been inserted in the Constitution : "Appointments and promotions in the civil service...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; * * * Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section." (Art. 5, § 9.) No one can... | |
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