NY Civ Serv L § 55-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVS - Civil Service Article 4 - Recruitment of Personnel Title A - Examinations and Eligible Lists 55-A - Employment of Persons With Disabilities by Municipalities.

§ 55-a. Employment  of persons with disabilities by municipalities. 1.   Municipal civil service commissions in the state may, by rule, determine   a prescribed number of positions, not to exceed seven hundred positions,   with duties which can be performed by physically  or  mentally  disabled   persons  who are found qualified, in the manner hereafter prescribed, to   perform satisfactorily such duties.2. Upon such a determination, such positions shall  be  classified  in   the non-competitive class, and shall be filled by persons who shall have   been  certified  by  either  the  commission  for the blind in the state   office of  children  and  family  services  as  physically  disabled  by   blindness  or  by the state education department as otherwise physically   or  mentally  disabled  and,  in  any  event,   qualified   to   perform   satisfactorily  the  duties of any such position. At least three hundred   of such positions shall be filled by persons who have been certified  as   physically  disabled.  If  no qualified physically disabled persons have   applied for such positions, the municipal civil service  commission  may   fill those unfilled positions with qualified mentally disabled persons.3.  Prior  to  making certification of physically or mentally disabled   persons for any such position, the commission for the blind in the  case   of  persons  physically  disabled  by  blindness  or the state education   department in the case  of  persons  otherwise  physically  or  mentally   disabled  shall  obtain  from  the  appropriate  municipal civil service   commission a detailed description of all duties  of  the  position,  and   shall  investigate  the  extent  of the disability by examination of any   such person or otherwise, and shall determine and report its findings to   the appropriate civil service commission,  as  to  the  ability  of  the   disabled  person  to  perform the duties of such position. Such findings   shall  be  given  due  consideration  by  the  municipal  civil  service   commission.4.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a municipal commission   may, for titles designated by it, extend to employees in the service  of   a  civil  division  who  are  holding or who have held a position in the   non-competitive class of such services pursuant  to  the  provisions  of   this section, the same opportunity as employees in the competitive class   to take promotion examinations.5.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a municipal commission   shall treat employees appointed  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this   section,   who   are  holding  or  who  have  held  a  position  in  the   non-competitive class, as if they  were  employees  in  the  competitive   class   where,  because  of  economy,  consolidation,  or  abolition  of   functions, curtailment of activities or  otherwise,  a  number  of  such   positions  in  either  the  non-competitive  or  competitive classes are   abolished or reduced in rank or salary grade, suspension or demotion, as   further provided in title  C  of  article  five  of  this  chapter.  For   purposes  of  seniority,  the  date an employee is appointed pursuant to   this section, shall be deemed  equivalent  to  the  date  a  competitive   employee is appointed from an eligible list.