value of the services rendered by such probationer, and his conduct, and if so required shall report in writing to the proper appointing officer the facts observed by him, showing the character and qualifications of such probationer, and of the services rendered by him, and such reports shall be preserved on file. Rule 36. PROMOTION. Promotion from the lower grades to the higher shall be on the basis of ascertained merit, seniority of service and examination, as hereinafter provided. Rule 37. THE GRADED SCHEDULES. For purposes of orderly arrangement and of regulated promotion the offices and positions in Schedules B, C and D of the competitive class shall be divided into grades, based upon the relative character of the duties performed and the rates of annual compensation. Such grades shall be, until otherwise established, as follows: JUNIOR CLERKS OR OTHERS. $300. SCHEDULE B. Grade I. Office Boy (or girl). Annual compensation not exceeding Grade II. Junior Clerks or others. Grade III. Junior Clerks or others. Grade IV. Junior Clerks or others. CLERKS OR OTHERS. Grade IV. Annual compensation of $480. Grade I. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $750. Grade II. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $900. Grade III. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $1,050. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $1,200. Grade V. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $1,350. Grade VI. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $1,500. Grade VII. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $1,650. Grade VIII. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $1,800. Grade IX. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $1,950. Grade X. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $2,100 Grade XI. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $2,250. Grade XII. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $2,400. Grade XIII. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $2,550. Grade III. Assistant Superintendent of Final Disposition. Grade IV. District Superintendent. Superintendent of Final Disposition. Grade I. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $750 or less. Grade II. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $900. Offices or positions having an annual compensation of $1,200. Grade IV. or over. For purposes of promotion, a position in either Schedule B or D, the annual compensation of which is different from that specified for any grade of the aforesaid schedules, shall be deemed as of the grade of such schedule the salary of which is next lower. When a person permanently occupying an office or position in either of said schedules is paid at a weekly or at a per diem rate, the grading of such office or position shall be according to the corresponding annual rate, computed on a basis of 52 weeks or of 304 working days to a year. An increase in salary or other compensation of any person holding an office or position within the scope of this rule beyond the rate fixed for the grade in which such office or position is classified, shall be deemed a promotion. Rule 38. Whenever a vacancy is to be filled in any position in Schedules B, C or D, above the lowest grade, and there is no appropriate or adequate eligible list for promotion, the Municipal Commission shall forthwith arrange to hold a competitive examination for promotion, limited to those persons who have served with fidelity for six months in the next lower grade, or for one year in the second lower grade, except as provided in Rule 54. On the request of an appointing officer the Commission may admit to such examination persons holding positions in three or more grades, providing such persons shall have served with fidelity for a period equivalent to service of six months for each of such grades, the reasons for such request to be set forth, in each case, in detail. No promotion shall be made from a position in one class to a position in another class unless the same be specially authorized by the Municipal Commission; but a person employed in any classified position shall be admissible to the open competitive examination prescribed for original entrance to any other position. The test of actual service being the main factor for fitness in promotion, there shall be kept in every office continuous and comparative records of the efficiency, punctuality, attention and general good conduct of all persons employed therein. Such records shall at all times be open to inspection to the Municipal Commission for the purpose of verification, or otherwise, and if the same shall have been regularly and properly kept, they shall constitute one of the elements in such promotion examination, with such relative weight as shall be assigned to them by the Examining Board, subject to the approval of the Municipal Commission. If such records have not been regularly and properly kept the Chief Examiner shall prescribe such tests as to him may seem best caiculated to determine the relative merit and fitness of persons entitled to enter the promotion examination, subject to the approval of the Municipal Commission. On receiving the notification of an appointing officer that a vacancy exists which is to be filled by promotion, the Municipal Commission, after consultation with such officer, shall set the earliest date practicable for the examination required under this rule and shall publish the same, by notice, posted conspicuously in the department, office or institution in which such vacancy exists and communicated to those eligible for such examination. No person shall be promoted from any position in Schedule G to any position classified as subject to competitive examination, unless such person shall have served the City creditably for a period of three years in the department in which he is employed, and then only when the promotion is in accordance with these rules, and is in the direct line of duty and according to grade, and the person named shall pass an examination of the same character as required for original appointment to said position. It shall be the duty of the officer or officers constituting the appointing power in the department in which a vacancy exists to make and forward to the Municipal Commission a certified copy of the record of the Department, showing the efficiency, character and conduct of every person in such inferior grade who desires to become an applicant for such promotion. The Municipal Commission shall not be bound to accept such certified copies as final, but may in their discretion call for the original records instead. The Municipal Commission or Examining Board shall have the right to call upon the appointing officer for further information upon any of the matters before them. Whenever there are less than three persons eligible for promotion to fill a vacancy and willing to compete therefor, or whenever an appointing officer wishes to promote uniformly all persons in a particular grade entitled to compete, the person or persons nominated by him may be promoted to the next higher grade, upon a certificate of the facts and on passing a non-competitive examination, approved by the Commission. Rule 39. Examiners of persons named for promotion shall personally question them concerning their office work and its purposes, in order to ascertain if they have a general and intelligent knowledge of the business in the department in which they are employed, and may require the persons examined to give a written description of the work done by them and its relation to the duties of others. Rule 40. A person who has received a permanent appointment to any position in the competitive class may be transferred without examination to a position in the same class, in any other office, provided that for original entrance to the position proposed to be filled by transfer there is not required by these rules, in the opinion of the Municipal Commission, an examination involving essential tests or qualifications different from or higher than those involved in the examination for original entrance to the position held by the person proposed to be transferred, or provided he shall have served the City with fidelity for at least three years in a similar position; but this restriction shall not apply in case the name of such person |