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2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 5 - Personnel Changes › Title E - Police Advisory Board › 83-C - Additional Members on Board.

§ 83-c. Additional members on board. In addition to the foregoing, the
following  additional members shall be added to the board depending upon
the type of merger involved:
(a) Consolidation of two police agencies. The chief of police of  both
agencies  involved  in the consolidation and the chief executive officer
of both municipalities involved in the consolidation.
(b) Consolidation of all or a combination of more  than  two  existing
police departments in the county. In cases where all or a combination of
existing  police  departments  in  the  county  are  being merged into a
uniform county or part-county police  department,  then  the  chiefs  of
police of the departments involved in the merger shall select from among
themselves  one  member  to represent the group. Similarly all the chief
executives of the municipalities involved in the merger shall select one
of their members to represent the group.
(c) Consolidation of all or a combination of more  than  two  existing
police  departments  in  the  county  and  the  criminal division of the
sheriff's department. In addition to the members of the board previously
indicated, there shall be added to the board, the sheriff.
(d) For the purposes of this section, the chief of police  means  that
person  who  is employed by a municipality on a full-time salaried basis
for the express purpose of administering a police department and who has
successfully passed a civil service examination for chief of police, and
has received such appointment.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 5 - Personnel Changes › Title E - Police Advisory Board › 83-D - Police Advisory Board Meetings.

§ 83-d. Police  advisory board meetings. The board will be convened by
  the president of the state civil service department, who  will  indicate
  the date, time and place of the first meeting.  Subsequent meetings will
  be held in accordance with the majority determination of the board.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 5 - Personnel Changes › Title E - Police Advisory Board › 83-E - Duties of Police Advisory Board.

§ 83-e. Duties  of  police  advisory  board. The  board will establish
  appropriate procedures and policies for the conduct of its  affairs  and
  will  make  its  recommendations  to  the  president  of the state civil
  service commission.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 5 - Personnel Changes › Title E - Police Advisory Board › 83-F - Procedures.

§ 83-f. Procedures. a. In  making  recommendations for the appropriate
  rank  to  which  present  police  officers  will  be  assigned  to   the
  consolidated  department, consideration will be given to the examination
  from which the present incumbents received their permanent civil service
  status, the length of time served in their present  position  and  other
  related factors which will be established and promulgated by the board.
b. Where  there may not be sufficient vacancies in the organization of
  the consolidated police department for all persons  to  be  assigned  to
  their  rank  as  determined  by  the board, the board will determine the
  persons to  be  selected  for  existing  vacancies  in  accordance  with
  criteria  established  by the board.   Those persons not selected to the
  rank to which their previous position has been declared equivalent  will
  be placed on a preferred list for that specific rank.  Such persons will
  have  priority  in  appointment  for the next lower rank position in the
  organization.   Such appointment will not affect  their  status  on  the
  preferred list in the higher rank when subsequent vacancies develop.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 5 - Personnel Changes › Title E - Police Advisory Board › 83-G - Compensation of Board Members.

§ 83-g. Compensation  of  board  members. No member of the board shall
  receive any additional compensation from the state of New York or any of
  its political subdivisions for any services rendered to  the  board  nor
  any expenses incurred in attendance at board meetings.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 6 - Special Rights for Veterans and Exempt Volunteer Firefighters › 86 - Transfer of Veterans or Exempt Volunteer Firefighters Upon Abolition of Positions.

§ 86. Transfer  of  veterans  or  exempt  volunteer  firefighters upon
  abolition of positions. If the position in the non-competitive or in the
  labor class held by any honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces
  of the United States or by any veteran of the armed forces of the United
  States  released  under  honorable  circumstances  from   such   service
  including (i) having a qualifying condition as defined in section one of
  the  veterans'  services  law,  and receiving a discharge other than bad
  conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (ii)  being  a  discharged
  LGBT  veteran,  as defined in section one of the veterans' services law,
  and receiving a discharge other than bad conduct  or  dishonorable  from
  such  service,  who  served therein in time of war as defined in section
  eighty-five of this chapter, or by an exempt  volunteer  firefighter  as
  defined  in  the  general  municipal law, shall become unnecessary or be
  abolished for reasons of economy or otherwise, the honorably  discharged
  veteran  or exempt volunteer firefighter holding such position shall not
  be discharged from the public service but  shall  be  transferred  to  a
  similar  position  wherein  a vacancy exists, and shall receive the same
  compensation therein. It is hereby made the duty of all persons  clothed
  with the power of appointment to make such transfer effective. The right
  to  transfer  herein  conferred  shall continue for a period of one year
  following the date of abolition of the position, and  may  be  exercised
  only where a vacancy exists in an appropriate position to which transfer
  may  be  made at the time of demand for transfer. Where the positions of
  more than one such veteran or exempt volunteer firefighter are abolished
  and a lesser number of vacancies in similar  positions  exist  to  which
  transfer  may  be  made,  the  veterans or exempt volunteer firefighters
  whose positions are abolished shall be  entitled  to  transfer  to  such
  vacancies  in  the  order  of their original appointment in the service.
  Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the  position  of
  private secretary, cashier or deputy of any official or department. This
  section  shall  have  no  application  to persons encompassed by section
  eighty-a of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 6 - Special Rights for Veterans and Exempt Volunteer Firefighters › 87 - Prohibition Against Disqualification on Account of Age or Disability.

§ 87. Prohibition  against  disqualification  on  account  of  age  or
  disability. A veteran or disabled veteran shall not be disqualified from
  holding any position in the civil service on account of age, except  for
  positions  for  which  age  limitations  are  specifically authorized or
  prescribed by law, provided such age does not render him incompetent  to
  perform  the  duties  of  the position applied for.   A disabled veteran
  shall not be disqualified from holding any position in the civil service
  by reason of a war-incurred disability, provided  such  disability  does
  not render him incompetent to perform the duties of the position applied
  for.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 6 - Special Rights for Veterans and Exempt Volunteer Firefighters › 88 - Prohibition Against Discrimination Against Public Employees Serving in the Armed Forces.

§  88.  Prohibition  against  discrimination  against public employees
  serving  in  the  armed  forces.  No  public  employer,  as  defined  in
  subdivision  six  of section two hundred one of this chapter, shall deny
  employment, re-employment or any benefit of employment to any person  or
  employee  based  on prospective, current or past enlistment, appointment
  or commission with the armed forces of the United States. Such person or
  employee shall be afforded full enforcement rights  under  the  laws  of
  this  state  and  of  the United States, including the Federal Uniformed
  Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 7 - Enforcement; Prohibitions; Penalties › Title A - Duties of Public Officers; Waivers of Rights › 95 - Duties of Public Officers.

§ 95. Duties  of public officers. It shall be the duty of all officers
  of the state of New York or of any civil division  or  city  thereof  to
  conform  to  and  comply  with and to aid in all proper ways in carrying
  into  effect  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  the  rules   and
  regulations  prescribed  thereunder.   No officer or officers having the
  power of appointment or employment shall appoint or  select  any  person
  for  appointment,  employment,  promotion  or  reinstatement  except  in
  accordance with the  provisions  of  this  chapter  and  the  rules  and
  regulations  established  thereunder.   Any person employed or appointed
  contrary to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  or  of  the  rules  and
  regulations  established  thereunder  shall  be  paid  by the officer or
  officers so employing or appointing, or attempting to employ or  appoint
  him,  the compensation agreed upon for any services performed under such
  appointment or employment or, in case no compensation  is  agreed  upon,
  the actual value of such services and any necessary expenses incurred in
  connection  therewith,  and  shall  have  a cause of action against such
  officer or officers for such sum and for the costs of the  action.    No
  public  officer  shall  be  reimbursed  by the state or any of its civil
  divisions for any sums so paid or recovered in any such action.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 7 - Enforcement; Prohibitions; Penalties › Title A - Duties of Public Officers; Waivers of Rights › 96 - Waiver of Rights.

§ 96. Waiver  of rights. No public officer nor any employee acting for
  a public officer shall require a candidate for employment  to  sign  any
  document  whereby  such  candidate  for  employment  waives any right or
  rights accruing to him under this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 7 - Enforcement; Prohibitions; Penalties › Title A - Duties of Public Officers; Waivers of Rights › 97 - Reports of Appointing Officers; Official Roster.

§ 97. Reports  of  appointing  officers; official roster. 1. No person
  shall be appointed to or be employed in any position in  the  classified
  service  of  the state or of any civil division thereof, for which rules
  have been established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter,  until
  he  has  passed  an  examination or is exempted from such examination in
  conformity with the provisions of this chapter or the rules  established
  thereunder. It shall be the duty of each appointing officer of the state
  or  of  any  civil division thereof to report to the state civil service
  department or municipal commission having jurisdiction,  forthwith  upon
  such  appointment or employment, the name of such appointee or employee,
  the title and character of his office or employment,  the  date  of  the
  commencement of service by virtue thereof and the salary or compensation
  thereof,  and  to report from time to time and upon the date of official
  action in or knowledge of each case, any separation of a person from the
  service, or other change therein, and such  other  information  as  such
  civil service department or municipal commission may require in order to
  keep the roster hereinafter mentioned.
2. The  civil  service  department and each municipal commission shall
  maintain  an  official  roster  of  the  classified  service  under  its
  jurisdiction. Such roster shall contain in detail the employment history
  of each employee, showing each change of status or compensation from the
  time  he  enters service until he separates from service, except that it
  shall not be necessary to enter  in  such  roster  the  compensation  or
  changes  in  compensation  of  an employee holding a position classified
  pursuant to article eight of this chapter or classified by  a  municipal
  commission  and  listed  in  a  salary  grade plan containing titles and
  specific ranges of salary for each title duly adopted by a  municipality
  or agency under the jurisdiction of such municipal commission.
3. The department shall maintain records documenting the employment of
  persons  pursuant  to  contracts for consulting services issued by state
  agencies as defined in subdivision seventeen of  section  eight  of  the
  state  finance  law. No later than one hundred eighty days after the end
  of each fiscal year, the department shall submit to  the  governor,  the
  senate  finance committee, the assembly ways and means committee and the
  department of audit and  control  a  report  summarizing  the  following
  information for each state agency:
a.  the  number  of  contract  employees  performing  such  consulting
  services; and
b. the types of services provided by such contract employees.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 7 - Enforcement; Prohibitions; Penalties › Title B - Certification of Payrolls; Court Actions › 101 - Misdemeanor to Pay Salary or Compensation for Which Certification Has Been Refused.

§ 101. Misdemeanor   to   pay   salary   or   compensation  for  which
  certification has been refused. Any officer who shall  wilfully  pay  or
  authorize  the  payment  of  salary or compensation to any person in the
  classified  service  with  knowledge  that  the  state   civil   service
  department or appropriate municipal civil service commission has refused
  to certify the payroll, estimate or account of such person, or after due
  notice  from  such  department  or  commission that such person has been
  appointed,  employed,  transferred,  assigned  to  perform   duties   or
  reinstated  in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or the
  rules established thereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 7 - Enforcement; Prohibitions; Penalties › Title C - Prohibition Against Certain Activities by Officers and Employees; Penalties › 106 - Misdemeanor to Obstruct Civil Service Rights; False Representation; Impersonation.

§ 106. Misdemeanor   to   obstruct   civil   service   rights;   false
  representation; impersonation. Any commissioner,  or  examiner,  or  any
  other  person  who  shall  wilfully,  alone or in cooperation with other
  persons, defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in respect of his or her
  right  of   examination,   registration,   certification,   appointment,
  promotion  or  reinstatement, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter
  or the rules or regulations established thereunder or who shall wilfully
  and falsely mark, grade, estimate or  report  upon  the  examination  or
  proper standing of any person examined, registered or certified pursuant
  to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter, or aid in so doing, or who shall
  wilfully  make  any  false  representations  concerning  the  same,   or
  concerning  the  person  examined,  or who shall wilfully furnish to any
  person any special or secret  information  for  the  purpose  of  either
  improving  or  injuring  the  prospects  or  chances  of  any  person so
  examined, registered or certified, or  to  be  examined,  registered  or
  certified,  or  who shall impersonate any other person, or permit or aid
  in any manner any other person to impersonate him,  in  connection  with
  any  registration  or application or request to be registered, shall for
  each offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 8 - Classification and Compensation of State Employees › Title A - Classification and Allocation of Positions › 116 - Classification Defined.

§ 116. Classification     defined. The     terms     "classification",
  "reclassification", "classify", and  "reclassify"  where  used  in  this
  article  refer  to  position classification as defined in section two of
  this chapter, unless otherwise expressly stated or  unless  the  context
  requires a different meaning.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 8 - Classification and Compensation of State Employees › Title A - Classification and Allocation of Positions › 117 - Classification and Compensation Division.

§ 117. Classification  and  compensation  division. There  shall  be a
  classification and compensation division  in  the  department  of  civil
  service.  The  head of such division shall be a director who shall be in
  the competitive class of the classified civil service. The director  and
  employees  of  such  division shall be appointed by the president of the
  civil service commission.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 8 - Classification and Compensation of State Employees › Title A - Classification and Allocation of Positions › 120 - Applications and Appeals.

§ 120. Applications  and  appeals. 1. Applications  to  director.  Any
  employee occupying a position, the title or salary  grade  of  which  is
  subject  to  the  jurisdiction of the director of the classification and
  compensation division, and any appointing officer, with respect  to  any
  such position or positions in his department or agency, may apply to the
  director,  on  a  form prescribed and furnished by him, for a review and
  change of the classification  or  allocation  of  such  positions.  Such
  employee  or  appointing  officer  or  their  representatives  shall  be
  afforded a reasonable opportunity to present facts in support of  or  in
  relation  to  such  application  at  a time and in such manner as may be
  specified by the director. The director shall  examine  and  review  any
  such  application  and  may  make  such  changes  in  classification  or
  allocation as may be just and equitable. The  director  shall  have  the
  power  to  designate an officer or employee of the division to conduct a
  hearing with relation to any application for  such  reclassification  or
  reallocation and to report to the director thereon.
2.  Appeals  to  the  state  civil service commission. Any employee or
  appointing officer aggrieved by a  determination  of  the  director  may
  appeal  from  such  determination to the state civil service commission.
  Such appeal must be made within sixty  days  after  receipt  of  written
  notice  of  such  determination.  Such employee or appointing officer or
  their representatives shall be afforded an opportunity to present  facts
  and  arguments in support of or in relation to such appeal at a time and
  place and in such manner as may be prescribed  by  the  commission.  The
  commission shall examine and review such appeal and make such changes in
  classification   or   allocation   as   may   be   just  and  equitable.
  Determinations of the commission shall be transmitted to the director of
  the  budget,  the  director  of  the  classification  and   compensation
  division, and the employees and department heads affected thereby.
3.   Reporting   on  appeals.  In  addition  to  the  requirements  of
  subdivision two of this section, the  commission  shall,  on  or  before
  January  thirty-first  of each year, submit a report to the governor and
  the legislature which shall include, but not be limited to,  information
  detailing  the total number of appeals received from determinations made
  based upon written and oral examinations, performance tests and  ratings
  of  training  and  experience,  during  the preceding twelve months, and
  shall report the final disposition or dispositions of each appeal.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 8 - Classification and Compensation of State Employees › Title A - Classification and Allocation of Positions › 122 - Eligibility of Incumbents of Positions Not Heretofore Classified.

§ 122. Eligibility   of   incumbents   of   positions  not  heretofore
  classified.  A position to which the  provisions  of  this  article  are
  hereafter  extended  shall be classified under an appropriate title. For
  the purpose of continuing the essential activities of the state  without
  interruption,  and  notwithstanding  any inconsistent provisions of this
  chapter,  the  president  of  the  state  civil  service  commission  is
  empowered,  without  requiring  an examination, to approve the continued
  employment of  the  permanent  incumbent  of  such  position  under  its
  classified   title  upon  the  certification  of  the  director  of  the
  classification and compensation division that such  incumbent  has  been
  satisfactorily performing the duties of such position for a period of at
  least   one  year  immediately  prior  to  such  extension.  After  such
  classification becomes effective, such incumbent shall  be  entitled  to
  the  same  salary,  status, rights, privileges and benefits as if he had
  been originally appointed under this chapter to the position  designated
  by  the  classified title. No such incumbent, by reason of any change in
  title, shall be deprived of any rights he might previously have acquired
  under  this  chapter  for  appointment,   transfer,   reinstatement   or
  promotion.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 8 - Classification and Compensation of State Employees › Title A - Classification and Allocation of Positions › 123 - Prohibition Against Transfer of Employees to Competitive Class.

§ 123. Prohibition   against  transfer  of  employees  to  competitive
  class. Nothing in title A of this article shall be construed to effect a
  transfer to the competitive class of the civil service of  any  employee
  not heretofore included in such service.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 8 - Classification and Compensation of State Employees › Title C - Performance Ratings › 140 - Maintenance and Reporting of Performance Ratings.

§ 140. Maintenance  and  reporting  of  performance  ratings.  1.  All
  departmental  agencies  of  the  state  government,  whether  known   as
  departments, institutions, boards, commissions, or otherwise, shall keep
  and  report,  if  requested by the civil service department, performance
  ratings of employees, based on standards of performance  established  by
  such  respective  agencies and approved by the civil service department,
  for the purpose of recording in terms of quality,  quantity,  and  other
  factors,  the  relative  efficiency  of employees engaged in the same or
  similar lines of work, under the rules prescribed  by  the  state  civil
  service commission.
2.  The  state  civil  service  department  shall use such performance
  ratings as a basis for determining the rendition of satisfactory service
  necessary for advancement from one rate of compensation to another. Such
  department, in its discretion, may use such  performance  ratings  as  a
  factor in promotion examinations.
3.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this
  section, during periods of time when there is  in  effect  an  agreement
  between  the  state and an employee organization reached pursuant to the
  provisions of article fourteen of the civil service law or a performance
  evaluation  plan  administered  pursuant  to   rules   and   regulations
  promulgated  by  the  director  of  the  budget,  the provisions of such
  agreement and/or the provisions of such rules and regulations  shall  be
  applicable.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 9 - Merit Awards for State Employees › 145 - State Commission to Make Merit Awards; Regulations.

§ 145. State  commission  to make merit awards; regulations. The state
civil service commission shall have power and it shall be its duty:
(a) To formulate, establish and maintain a plan or plans to  encourage
and  reward  unusual  and meritorious suggestions and accomplishments by
state employees and suggestions of  retired  state  employees  promoting
efficiency  and  economy  in  the  performance  of any function of state
government;
(b) To appoint departmental or divisional boards or  committees,  from
among  persons nominated therefor by the respective department or agency
heads, which shall analyze and review suggestions and accomplishments of
state employees and suggestions of retired state employees submitted for
consideration under such plan or plans and make recommendations  thereon
to the commission;
(c)  To  make  and  render merit awards to or for the benefit of state
employees and retired state  employees  nominated  to  receive  them  in
accordance with such plan or plans;
(d)  To  adopt  and  promulgate  rules  and  regulations governing the
operation of any plan or  plans  established  under  this  article,  the
eligibility  and  qualifications  of  state  employees and retired state
employees  participating  therein,  the   character   and   quality   of
suggestions  and accomplishments submitted for consideration, the method
of their submission and the procedure for their review, nominations  for
merit awards, and the kind, character and value of such awards, and such
other  rules  and  regulations as may be deemed necessary or appropriate
for the proper administration of this article or for the  accomplishment
of the purposes thereof;
(e)  Upon the request of a public authority or other agency not in the
state  service  but  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the   civil   service
department,  to  receive,  pass  upon  and  make  awards for suggestions
submitted by employees  and  retired  employees  of  such  authority  or
agency,  provided  such  authority  or  agency  agrees  to  abide by the
decisions of the commission and to pay the costs of all  awards  granted
by the commission to its employees.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 9 - Merit Awards for State Employees › 146 - Awards.

§ 146. Awards. The  commission  may determine the nature and extent of
  the merit awards to be made under this article  which  may  include  but
  shall  not  be  limited  to  certificates,  medals  or other appropriate
  insignia, or cash awards  in  such  amounts  as  may  be  fixed  by  the
  commission.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 150 - Suspension of Pension and Annuity During Public Employment.

§ 150. Suspension  of  pension  and  annuity during public employment.
  Except as otherwise provided by sections one hundred  one,  two  hundred
  eleven,  and  two  hundred  twelve of the retirement and social security
  law, section five hundred three of the education law, and except as  now
  provided by any local law or charter, if any person subsequent to his or
  her  retirement  from the civil service of the state or of any municipal
  corporation or political subdivision of  the  state,  shall  accept  any
  office,  position  or employment in the civil service of the state or of
  any municipal corporation or political subdivision of the state to which
  any salary or emolument is attached, except jury duty or the  office  of
  inspector  of  election,  poll  clerk or ballot clerk under the election
  law, or the office of notary public or  commissioner  of  deeds,  or  an
  elective  public  office,  any pension or annuity awarded or allotted to
  him or her upon retirement, and payable by the state, by such  municipal
  corporation  or political subdivision, or out of any fund established by
  or pursuant to law, shall be suspended during such service or employment
  and while such person is receiving  any  salary  or  emolument  therefor
  except   reimbursement   for  traveling  expenses.  Notwithstanding  the
  foregoing, if any person, subsequent to his or her  retirement  from  an
  elective  public  office,  accepts appointment, is re-elected or takes a
  new oath of office to the same elective public office from which  he  or
  she  retired,  his  or her retirement allowance shall be suspended until
  the date he or she vacates  such  elective  public  office,  unless  the
  amount earned for any calendar year for that elective public office does
  not  exceed  the  earning  limitation  provided  for  retired persons in
  section two hundred twelve of the retirement and  social  security  law.
  However, for purposes of this section the age seventy unlimited earnings
  provision  of  section  two  hundred twelve of the retirement and social
  security law will not pertain to any person, subsequent to  his  or  her
  retirement  from  an  elective  public  office,  if  such person accepts
  appointment, is re-elected or takes a new oath of  office  to  the  same
  elective public office from which he or she retired.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 151 - Leaves of Absence for Participation in Certain Athletic Competitions.

§ 151. Leaves   of  absence  for  participation  in  certain  athletic
competitions. 1. For purposes of this section:
(a) The term "public employee" means any person holding a position  by
appointment or employment in the service of a public employer.
(b) The term "public employer" means (i) the state of New York, (ii) a
county,  city, town, village or any other political subdivision or civil
division of the state, (iii)  a  school  district  or  any  governmental
entity  operating  a public school, college or university, (iv) a public
improvement or special district, (v) a public authority, commission,  or
public benefit corporation, or (vi) any other public corporation, agency
or  instrumentality  or  unit of government which exercises governmental
powers under the laws of the state.
(c) The term "team" means any group leader, coach, official or athlete
who comprises the official delegation of the United States to world, Pan
American or Olympic competition.
2. A public employee who qualifies as a member of a United States team
for athletic competition on the world, Pan American or Olympic level, in
a sport contested in either Pan American or Olympic competitions,  shall
at  the  discretion of the public employer be granted a leave of absence
from  employment  without  loss  of  pay  or  diminution  of  any  other
privilege,  benefit  or  right  arising  out  of  such employment and in
accordance with the provisions of this section.
3. Such leave shall be available only for the purpose of preparing for
and engaging in either or both such competitions and in no  event  shall
the  total  of  all  such  leave granted to a public employee exceed the
period of the official training camp and competition combined or  ninety
calendar days a year, whichever is less.
4.  The  electing  public employer shall pay at the employee's regular
rate of pay for each week of leave granted in the  amount  the  employee
would  receive  for  a  standard  work  week.  The employee shall not be
entitled  to  receive  compensation  for  any  day  spent  in  camp   or
competition for which compensation would not ordinarily be paid.
5.  The  president  of  the  civil service commission shall promulgate
appropriate  rules  necessary  to  effectuate  the  provisions  of  this
section.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 152 - Repair or Replacement of Assistive Devices or Adaptive Equipment Provided for Employees With Disabilities.

§ 152. Repair   or   replacement  of  assistive  devices  or  adaptive
  equipment provided for employees with disabilities. Notwithstanding  any
  law,  regulation  or  rule  to  the  contrary,  any  assistive device or
  adaptive equipment which has been provided by the state to  an  employee
  with  a  disability as a reasonable accommodation and which is necessary
  to the performance of the duties of the  employee's  position  shall  be
  repaired  or replaced by such state employee's appointing authority in a
  timely fashion and at no cost to such employee  whenever  the  assistive
  device or adaptive equipment requires repair or replacement.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 156 - Unauthorized Soliciting in Behalf of Civil Service Employees.

§ 156. Unauthorized  soliciting  in behalf of civil service employees.
  Any person, not at  the  time  a  salaried  officer  or  employee  of  a
  department,  bureau or office of the state, or of any of the counties or
  cities thereof, or of any of the courts of the  state,  or  any  of  the
  counties  or  cities thereof, who shall distribute, circulate or display
  any  ticket,  credentials,  letter,  letterhead,  contract,   agreement,
  application  or  other  written or printed matter which bears, either in
  full or in part, the name, seal or insignia of any state, county or city
  department, bureau, office or court, or any person not an active  member
  of the uniformed force, who shall wear or display the uniform or part of
  the uniform thereof, or any badge, shield, medal, button, decoration, or
  other  insignia relating to or identified with any state, county or city
  department, bureau, office or court,  for  the  purpose  of  selling  or
  attempting  to  sell  any ticket, book or privilege in connection with a
  dinner, reception, dance, entertainment, concert,  athletic  exhibition,
  contest  or  lecture, proposed to be conducted by and under the auspices
  of any group or association  of  active  or  retired  employees  of  any
  department,  bureau, office or court of the state or any of the counties
  or cities thereof, or for the purpose of soliciting paid  advertisements
  or  greetings  for  any book, pamphlet or program to be published by any
  such groups or associations, shall be deemed guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,
  and  upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for six months or
  by a fine of five hundred dollars or both.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 157 - Deductions From Retirement Allowances.

§ 157. Deductions from retirement allowances. A person who (1) retired
  from  employment with the state, (2) is receiving a retirement allowance
  from a state retirement system, and (3) at the time  of  his  retirement
  had  group  life  insurance  premiums  and  employee  organization  dues
  deducted from his salary, may elect to have deductions for such purposes
  made from his retirement allowance by providing notification in  writing
  to  the  head  of the retirement system from which he retired. Such life
  insurance deduction shall be transmitted to the insurance carrier.  Such
  dues  deduction  shall  be transmitted to the employee organization. Any
  such written authorization may be withdrawn by such retired employee  at
  any  time  upon  written  notice  of  such withdrawal to the head of the
  retirement system from which he retired.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 158 - Group Term Life Insurance Plan and Group Accident and Health Benefit Plan.

§ 158. Group  term  life  insurance plan and group accident and health
  benefit plan. 1. The  president,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this
  section,  is  hereby empowered to establish regulations relating to, and
  to enter into and administer contracts providing for, a group term  life
  insurance  plan,  and a group accident and health benefit plan on behalf
  of legislators, employees of the legislature hired on an  annual  basis,
  judges and justices of the unified court system, and state employees and
  retired  employees  who,  for  the  purposes of article fourteen of this
  chapter, have been for a period of time prescribed  by  the  regulations
  and, except for such retirees, continue to be in positions designated as
  managerial  or  confidential  positions. The president may authorize the
  inclusion in the plan of such employees and retired employees  of  other
  governments or public employers as defined in subdivision six of section
  two  hundred one of this chapter. The president may adopt whatever other
  regulations which may be necessary to fulfill  the  intentions  of  this
  section.  No  regulation  shall  be adopted, repealed or amended, and no
  other action taken with respect to such employees affecting  the  amount
  of,  or  eligibility  for,  benefits or rates of contribution under this
  section without the approval of the director of employee relations.
The full costs  of  any  insurance  program  or  programs  established
  pursuant  to  this subdivision, excluding administrative costs, shall be
  borne by insureds and retirees. Any interest earned by the moneys in the
  life insurance fund shall be added to such fund, become a part  of  such
  fund,  be  used  for  the purpose of such fund, and be available without
  fiscal year limitation.
2. The regulations of the president authorized by this  section  shall
  provide  that  the  entire  cost of premiums or subscription charges for
  coverage  under  the  insurance  plans  established  pursuant  to   such
  regulations shall be borne by the employees electing such coverage. Such
  regulations  may  provide  for  the  allocation  of  any  administrative
  expenses, other than those of the insurer, among employers or  employees
  or retired employees participating in such coverage.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 159 - Group Insurance or Mass Merchandising Policies or Programs.

§ 159. Group    insurance    or   mass   merchandising   policies   or
  programs. 1. The president, subject to the approval of the  director  of
  employee  relations  and the director of the budget, is hereby empowered
  to establish regulations relating to, and to enter into  and  administer
  contracts   or   agreements   providing  for  group  insurance  or  mass
  merchandising policies or programs for state employees in the  executive
  branch  precluded  from  collective  bargaining  by  subdivision five or
  subdivision seven of section two hundred one of this chapter.
2. Any such policy or  program  shall  be  subject  to  the  following
  provisions:
a.  The  benefits  provided  thereby  shall  be available to all state
  officers and employees in  the  executive  branch  whose  positions  are
  designated  managerial  or  confidential pursuant to article fourteen of
  this  chapter  and  all  state  officers  and  employees  excluded  from
  representation   rights   under  this  chapter  pursuant  to  rules  and
  regulations  of  the  public  employment  relations  board,  subject  to
  reasonable underwriting restrictions of the selected insurers;
b.  The  benefits  provided  thereby  may  be  made available to state
  officers and employees in the division of military and naval affairs  in
  the executive department; and
c.  Unless any group insurance or mass merchandising policy or program
  offered pursuant to this section is  funded  by  payroll  deductions  in
  accordance  with  subdivision  three  of  section two hundred one of the
  state finance law, such policy or program shall be  funded  by  specific
  appropriation  of  monies  of the state, provided, however, both payroll
  deductions and state appropriations may be utilized  to  fund  any  such
  policy or program.
3.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of any general or special law, no
  state  monies  shall  be  available  for   group   insurance   or   mass
  merchandising  policies or programs established by the president until a
  certificate of allocation and a schedule  of  amounts  to  be  available
  therefor  shall  have  been  issued by the director of the budget, and a
  copy of such certificate filed with the comptroller, the chairman of the
  assembly ways and means committee and the chairman of the senate finance
  committee.
4. Monies appropriated  and  allocated  for  the  purposes  set  forth
  herein, shall be paid out on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on
  vouchers certified or approved by the president.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 159-A - Disability Program.

§ 159-a. Disability  program.  Notwithstanding  any other law, rule or
  regulation to the contrary, where an agreement between the state and  an
  employee  organization entered into pursuant to article fourteen of this
  chapter so provides on behalf of employees in positions serving  in  the
  collective negotiating unit created by chapter four hundred three of the
  laws   of  nineteen  hundred  eighty-three,  the  director  of  employee
  relations is authorized to establish and implement a disability  program
  that will provide long term income protection for such employees and the
  president   is   empowered  to  establish  regulations  to  effect  such
  implementation. No regulation shall be adopted, repealed or amended, and
  no  other  action  taken  with  respect  to  such  employees   or   such
  implementation   without  the  approval  of  the  director  of  employee
  relations. Notwithstanding any other law,  rule  or  regulation  to  the
  contrary, any employee who participates in or is covered by a disability
  program  authorized  by  this  section  shall receive retirement service
  credit not to exceed six months during the period  that  he  or  she  is
  receiving  the  short  term disability benefit under such program on the
  same basis and at the same rate as  such  employee  would  receive  such
  credit  were  he or she on sick leave at half pay for the period of time
  for which such employee would have been entitled to such sick  leave  at
  half  pay  had  the  sick  leave  policy  supplemented by the short term
  disability program remained in effect.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 159-B - Excused Leave to Undertake a Screening for Cancer.

§  159-b.  Excused leave to undertake a screening for cancer. 1. Every
  public officer, employee of this state, employee of any county, employee
  of any community college, employee of any public authority, employee  of
  any  public  benefit  corporation,  employee of any board of cooperative
  educational services (BOCES), employee of any vocational  education  and
  extension  board,  or  a  school  district  enumerated in section one of
  chapter  five  hundred  sixty-six  of  the  laws  of  nineteen   hundred
  sixty-seven,  employee  of  any  municipality,  employee  of  any school
  district or any employee of a participating employer  in  the  New  York
  state  and  local  employees'  retirement  system  or  any employee of a
  participating employer in the New York state teachers' retirement system
  shall be entitled to absent himself or herself and shall  be  deemed  to
  have  a  paid leave of absence from his or her duties or service as such
  public officer or employee  of  this  state,  employee  of  any  county,
  employee  of  any  community  college, employee of any public authority,
  employee of any public benefit corporation, employee  of  any  board  of
  cooperative  educational  services  (BOCES),  employee of any vocational
  education and extension  board,  or  a  school  district  enumerated  in
  section  one  of  chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen
  hundred sixty-seven, employee  of  any  municipality,  employee  of  any
  school  district, or any employee of a participating employer in the New
  York state and local employees' retirement system or any employee  of  a
  participating employer in the New York state teachers' retirement system
  for  a  sufficient period of time, not to exceed four hours on an annual
  basis, to undertake a screening for cancer.
2. The entire period of the leave of absence granted pursuant to  this
  section  shall  be  excused  leave  and shall not be charged against any
  other leave such public officer, employee of this state, employee of any
  county, employee of  any  community  college,  employee  of  any  public
  authority,  employee  of any public benefit corporation, employee of any
  board of cooperative  educational  services  (BOCES),  employee  of  any
  vocational   education   and  extension  board,  or  a  school  district
  enumerated in section one of chapter five hundred sixty-six of the  laws
  of  nineteen hundred sixty-seven, employee of any municipality, employee
  of any school district or any employee of a  participating  employer  in
  the  New  York  state  and  local  employees'  retirement  system or any
  employee of a participating employer in the  New  York  state  teachers'
  retirement system is otherwise entitled to.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 159-C - Prohibition of Retaliation for Use of Sick Leave Due to Covid-19; Public Employers.

§  159-c.  Prohibition  of  retaliation  for  use of sick leave due to
  COVID-19; public employers. A public employer shall not dismiss or  take
  other  disciplinary  or  other adverse personnel action against a public
  employee regarding the employee's employment, including designating  the
  employee  as chronically absent, because the employee uses sick leave or
  compensatory time to quarantine, convalesce, seek medical treatment,  or
  engage in other activities related to a COVID-19 diagnosis or contact.
2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 10 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 159-D - Excused Leave to Donate Blood.

§  159-d.  Excused  leave  to donate blood. 1. Every public officer or
  employee of this state shall be entitled to absent  himself  or  herself
  and shall be deemed to have a leave of absence from his or her duties or
  service  as  such  public  officer  or  employee  of  this  state, for a
  sufficient period of time, not to exceed four hours on an annual  basis,
  to donate blood.
2. A supervisor of any such public officer or employee may require the
  public  officer  or  employee  to  provide written substantiation from a
  donation center or entity coordinating donations that the public officer
  or employee actually donated blood during the excused absence.
3. The entire period of the leave of absence granted pursuant to  this
  section  shall  be  excused  leave  and shall not be charged against any
  other leave such public officer or employee of this state  is  otherwise
  entitled to.