STATE OF NEW YORK
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7948
IN SENATE
March 12, 2018
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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:
1 Section 1. Section 57 of the civil service law, as added by chapter 83
2 of the laws of 1963, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 57. Continuous recruitment for certain positions. Notwithstanding
4 any other provisions of this chapter or any other law, the civil service
5 department or a municipal commission may establish a continuing eligible
6 list for any class of positions for which it finds [inadequate numbers
7 of well qualified persons available for recruitment] such lists appro-
8 priate. Names of eligibles shall be inserted in such list from time to
9 time as applicants are tested and found qualified in examinations held
10 at such intervals as may be prescribed by the civil service department
11 or municipal commission having jurisdiction. Such successive examina-
12 tions shall, so far as practicable, be constructed and rated so as to be
13 equivalent tests of the merit and fitness of candidates. The name of any
14 candidate who passes any such examination and who is otherwise qualified
15 shall be placed on the continuing eligible list in the rank correspond-
16 ing to his final rating on such examination. The period of eligibility
17 of successful candidates for certification and appointment from such
18 continuing eligible list, as a result of any such examination, shall be
19 fixed by the civil service department or municipal commission but,
20 except as a list may reach an announced terminal date, such period shall
21 not be less than one year; nor shall such period of eligibility exceed
22 four years. Subject to such conditions and limitations as the civil
23 service department or municipal commission may prescribe, a candidate
24 may take more than one such examination; provided, however, that no such
25 candidate shall be certified simultaneously with more than one rank on
26 the continuing eligible list. With respect to any candidate who applies
27 for and is granted additional credit in any such examination as a disa-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 bled or non-disabled veteran, and for the limited purpose of granting
2 such additional credit, the eligible list shall be deemed to be estab-
3 lished on the date on which his name is added thereto.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
