REGULATION 24. V The general character of the applicant, including habits and reputation, is to be ascertained in such manner as the Examining Board may determine. The burden of proof of good character shall, in all cases, be upon the applicant, who may be required to furnish evidence thereof, additional to the certificates required in the application. REGULATION 25. When a candidate shall have been examined, a circular letter, in the following form, shall be sent by the Secretary to persons who have given recommendation upon his application paper, unless a satisfactory report of their answers shall have been made by the Examiner of Character: NEW YORK CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, New York... 189 To.... Sir Appended to the application of for a position in the Municipal Service as a is your general certificate of his (or her) good character and habits. In addition to this it is necessary, before he (or she) can be appointed, that satisfactory information regarding his (or her) character, habits and associates, be received directly from his (or her) certifiers. I, therefore, respectfully request you to answer the following questions in writing after each, to sign your name, give your occupation and address at the foot, and return the paper to me at your earliest convenience. Very respectfully yours, Secretary. CERTIFIER'S STATEMENT. (This sheet should be promptly returned, as a failure to return it will be regarded as a refusal to certify to the character or competence of the applicant.) 1. How long have you known the applicant? 2. Has he (or she) ever been employed by you, and, if so, when and how long? (a) If he (or she) has ceased to work for you, why did he (or she) leave? (b) What was the nature of the work done by him (or her)? (c) Was his (or her) work satisfactory? (d) If not, in what respect was it deficient? 3. What is his (or her) present occupation? State upon whose information you answer. 4. In what other occupations has he (or she) been employed? State upon whose information you answer. 5. What is his (or her) character as to (a) Honesty? (b) Trustworthiness? (c) Habits as to the use of intoxicants? 6. Other things being satisfactory would you, with your knowledge of his (or her) capacity, condition of health, character, associates and habits, employ him (or her) in your own private business, had you occasion for such services as he (or she) desires to render the City? 7. Are you willing to allow your answers to the foregoing to be published? Name. No person from whom recommendations are required shall be appointed to any position for which an examination is necessary unless satisfactory answers are returned to these questions by at least two of the persons who have given such recommendations, or unless a satisfactory report of their answers shall have been made by the Character Examiner. REGULATION 26. V The Secretary may give a certificate to any person examined, except under Schedule G, stating the grade which such person attained and the proficiency in the several subjects shown by the markings. Appeals - Revision. Complaints of injustice or unfairness on the part of any Examiner or Examining Board, or of any one acting under the Commission, shall be considered by such Commission, which shall have the right to revise the marking and grading on the papers, or order a new examination, or otherwise act as substantial justice in the premises may require. Eligible List. REGULATION 28. An eligible list shall be prepared by the Secretary, from time to time, as the needs of the service require, for each of the different grades of every class in Schedules B, C, D, E and F. Upon each eligible list shall be placed only such persons as have been found by the Examining Board to be duly qualified for the positions for which such eligible list is prepared. The candidates shall be placed upon the eligible list, stating the order of merit, as shown by the respective percentages of their aggregate markings upon their examinations, and when the candidate has been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the late war, that fact shall be indicated upon said list. Where an examination for any grade takes place before the eligible list for that grade is exhausted, a new eligible list shall be prepared after such examination, to take the place of the former eligible list. The persons upon the former eligible list who have not been examined for the new eligible list shall, unless a period of one year from the date of their original examination has elapsed, be placed respectively upon the new eligible list in the position to which the percentages of their aggregate markings upon their former examinations would entitle them if such markings had instead been given them upon the new examinations. When two or more eligibles on a register have the same average percentage, preference in certification shall be determined by the order in which their applications were filed, but neither priority in the date of application or of examination will give any other advantage in position on the registers of eligibles. REGULATION 29. The aggregate results of each examination shall be entered in form as follows, upon a Whenever a vacancy shall occur within any grade of any clause in Schedules B, C, D, E and F which, in the opinion of the appointing officer, the business of the City requires to be filled, he shall forthwith notify the Secretary of the vacancy and state whether the same is to be filled by appointment or by promotion. If the position to be filled is a clerkship, the appointing officer shall state whether it is a minor clerkship, or whether any of the special qualifications denoted by the optional subjects are required, and, if so, which. war. The Secretary shall thereupon, as soon as practicable, certify to the appointing officer for appointment, or for promotion, from the eligible list appropriate to such position as it may then exist, the three persons having the highest standing on such eligible list, indicating such of them, if any, as have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States in the late The certificate of the Secretary shall, in all cases, state the percentage of the maximum obtained by each of the persons certified. If the appointing officer shall notify the Secretary of more than one vacancy at any time, the Secretary shall certify to the appointing officer for appointment or for promotion, as the case may be, the names of as many persons as there are vacancies to be filled, with the addition of two names. No requisition for names to fill more than ten vacancies shall be made at any one time. The appointing officer shall thereupon fill said vacancy or vacancies by the appointment of one or more of the persons so certified. Until such appointment has been made to all positions for which names have been certified, or until said certification has been cancelled, no new certification shall be made to fill said vacant position or positions. In all cases the vacancies shall be so filled within fifteen days after the receipt by the appointing power of the names certified by the Secretary, and the Secretary shall be at once notified by the appointing power of the appointments or promotions so made. No certification shall be in force for a longer period than fifteen days, and at the end of said fifteen days, such certification shall be cancelled by the Secretary, and the department making the requisition shall be notified accordingly. Whenever the appointing officer, who shall have made a requisition to fill a certain number of vacancies, shall appoint or promote to office a number smaller than that of the vacancies named |