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Senate Bill S7948

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Authorizes the civil service department or a municipal commission to establish a continuing eligible list for certain classes of positions

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

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2017-S7948 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §57, Civ Serv L

2017-S7948 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the civil service department or a municipal commission to establish a continuing eligible list for certain classes of positions.

2017-S7948 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7948 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7948
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 12, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN  --  (at request of the Department of Civil
   Service) -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when  printed  to  be
   committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil  service law, in relation to establishing
   continuing eligible lists
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 57 of the civil service law, as added by chapter 83
 of the laws of 1963, is amended to read as follows:
   § 57. Continuous  recruitment  for certain positions.  Notwithstanding
 any other provisions of this chapter or any other law, the civil service
 department or a municipal commission may establish a continuing eligible
 list for any class of positions for which it finds  [inadequate  numbers
 of  well  qualified persons available for recruitment] SUCH LISTS APPRO-
 PRIATE.  Names of eligibles shall be inserted in such list from time  to
 time  as  applicants are tested and found qualified in examinations held
 at such intervals as may be prescribed by the civil  service  department
 or  municipal  commission  having jurisdiction. Such successive examina-
 tions shall, so far as practicable, be constructed and rated so as to be
 equivalent tests of the merit and fitness of candidates. The name of any
 candidate who passes any such examination and who is otherwise qualified
 shall be placed on the continuing eligible list in the rank  correspond-
 ing  to  his final rating on such examination. The period of eligibility
 of successful candidates for certification  and  appointment  from  such
 continuing  eligible list, as a result of any such examination, shall be
 fixed by the civil  service  department  or  municipal  commission  but,
 except as a list may reach an announced terminal date, such period shall
 not  be  less than one year; nor shall such period of eligibility exceed
 four years. Subject to such conditions  and  limitations  as  the  civil
 service  department  or  municipal commission may prescribe, a candidate
 may take more than one such examination; provided, however, that no such
 candidate shall be certified simultaneously with more than one  rank  on
 the  continuing eligible list. With respect to any candidate who applies
 for and is granted additional credit in any such examination as a  disa-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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