 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 558by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1906Full view - About this book
 | New York (State). Department of Civil Service - 1914 - 1018 pages
...State of New York is governed by article 5, section 9, of the State Constitution, which provides : "Appointments and promotions in the civil service...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive; * * *" This is the fundamental law of the State by which every question affecting the civil service... | |
 | New York (State). Dept. of Labor - 1926 - 470 pages
...weights and measures, or shall prevent the creation of any office for such purposes hereafter. § [9] 6. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of...practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, f.hii (, honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1928 - 876 pages
...concur). That section six of article five of the constitution be amended to read as follows: § 6. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of...practicable, shall be competitive; provided, however, any honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, marines or nurses of the army, navy or marine corps of... | |
 | New York (State). Attorney General's Office - 1916 - 542 pages
...became part of the fundamental law. Section 9 of article V of the Constitution reads as follows: " Appointments and promotions in the civil service of...examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall bo competitive; provided, however, that honorably discharged .soldiers and sailors from the army and... | |
 | New York (State). Attorney General's Office - 1916 - 536 pages
...positions exempt from competitive examination, merely providing that appointments shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained so far as practicable...which so far as practicable, shall be competitive. Judicial interpretation of this phraseology will be considered later. By chapter 184 of the Laws of... | |
 | Ernst Freund - 1928 - 786 pages
...judicial question within the constitutional provision requiring appointments thereto to be made "according to merit and fitness, to be ascertained so far as...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive," has been held by this court. Chittenden v. Wurster, 152 NY 345, 46 NE 857, 37 LRA 809. Any other principle... | |
 | 1900 - 1272 pages
...authorities thereof, as the legislature shall designate for that purpose,"— while section 9 declares: "Appointments and promotions in the civil service...provided, however, that honorably discharged soldiers and Bailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late Civil War, who are citizens and residents... | |
 | 1905 - 1274 pages
...that appointments and promotions In the civil service of the city of New York shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be ascertained, so far as...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive (rule 1), and that promotion from a lower to a higher grade shall be on the basis of ascertained merit... | |
 | 1909 - 1280 pages
...Constitution, which requires that both appointments and promotions in the civil service shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be ascertained, so far as...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive. Section 9, art. 5. The respondent claims that this question has been authoritatively decided adversely... | |
 | National Civil Service League - 1919 - 554 pages
...civil service law. 2. Classification and Examination. The constitution, article V, section 9, provides: Appointments and promotions in the civil service of...which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive. The civil service commission performs a great variety of work incident to this and allied provisions... | |
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