2023 New York Laws › CVS - Civil Service › Article 2 - Civil Service Administration › Title A - Organization and Functions of State Civil Service Department › 6 - Powers and Duties of the State Civil Service Commission.

§ 6. Powers  and  duties  of  the  state civil service commission. The
  state civil service commission shall
1. Prescribe and amend suitable rules  and  regulations  for  carrying
  into effect the provisions of this chapter and of section six of article
  five  of  the constitution of the state of New York, including (a) rules
  for the jurisdictional classification of offices and  positions  in  the
  classified   service   of   the   state;  (b)  rules  for  examinations,
  appointments, promotions, transfers, leaves of absence, resignations and
  reinstatements, and the keeping, reporting and reviewing of  performance
  ratings  of  employees  in the classified service of the state and civil
  divisions for which the provisions of this chapter are  administered  by
  the   state  civil  service  department;  (c)  rules  for  sick  leaves,
  vacations, time allowances and other conditions  of  employment  in  the
  classified service of the state and, notwithstanding any other provision
  of  this  chapter  or  any  other  law,  such rules may provide for cash
  payment of the monetary value of accumulated and unused vacation or time
  allowances granted in lieu of  overtime  compensation  standing  to  the
  credit  of an employee at the time of his or her separation from service
  or his or her entrance into the armed forces of the  United  States  for
  active  duty  (other  than  for training) as defined by title ten of the
  United  States  code,  whether  or  not  such  entrance  constitutes   a
  separation  from  service,  and for the payment of the monetary value of
  his or her accumulated and unused time allowances  granted  in  lieu  of
  overtime  compensation standing to the credit of an employee at the time
  of his or her appointment, promotion or transfer from the department  or
  agency  in  which such time allowances were earned to another department
  or  agency  and  provided  further  however  that  any  such  rules   or
  regulations  shall  provide  that  individuals certified by an examining
  physician as benefiting from the use of a service animal  in  performing
  major  life  activities,  individuals registered with the New York state
  commission for the blind as legally blind or certified by  an  examining
  physician  or  licensed  optometrist  as legally blind, as manifested by
  visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with  best  correction
  or  visual  field of 20 degrees or less, and individuals who are deaf or
  hard of hearing manifested by a speech  discrimination  score  of  forty
  percent  or  less  in  the  better  ear  with  appropriate correction as
  certified by  an  examining  physician  or  a  licensed  audiologist  or
  otorhinolaryngologist as defined in section seven hundred eighty-nine of
  the  general  business  law, or a physician who has examined such person
  pursuant to the provisions of section seven hundred ninety-two  of  such
  law,  may charge against accumulated sick leave credits and upon written
  agreement between the individual and the employer,  may  borrow  against
  sick  leave  credits  not  yet accumulated, for the purpose of obtaining
  service animals or guide dogs and necessary training, up to a maximum of
  twenty-six days in any one calendar year; and (d) rules for the position
  classification  and  jurisdictional  classification   of   offices   and
  employees  in  civil  divisions for which the provisions of this chapter
  are administered by the state civil service department.
Such rules  and  any  modification  thereof  shall  take  effect  when
  approved  by  the  governor and filed in the office of the department of
  state, and shall have the force and effect of law;
2. Keep minutes of its  own  proceedings  and  records  of  its  other
  official actions;
3.  Make  investigations  concerning  all  matters  touching  upon the
  enforcement and effect of the provisions of this chapter and  the  rules
  and  regulations established thereunder and concerning the action of any
  person in respect to the administration of this chapter. In  the  course
  of   such  investigations  each  member  and  any  officer  or  employee

  previously  designated  in  writing  by  the   commission   to   conduct
  investigations  or hearings in its behalf shall have power to administer
  oaths. A record of such written designation shall be kept on file in the
  office of such commission;
4.  Have power to subpoena and require the attendance in this state of
  witnesses and the production  of  books  and  papers  pertinent  to  the
  investigation  and  inquiries  hereby authorized and to examine them and
  such public records as it shall require relating to any such matter. For
  the purposes of such  examination,  the  commission  possesses  all  the
  powers  conferred  by  the  legislative  law  upon  a  committee  of the
  legislature or by the civil practice law and  rules,  upon  a  board  or
  committee.  A  subpoena  issued under this section shall be regulated by
  the civil practice law and rules. Said commission  and  any  officer  or
  employee previously designated in writing by it to act in its behalf may
  invoke the power of any court of record in the state to compel witnesses
  to attend, testify and produce books and papers;
5.  Hear  and  determine  appeals  instituted  by any person believing
  himself aggrieved by any action or determination of the president of the
  commission acting  as  the  head  of  the  department,  made  under  the
  authority   conferred  upon  such  president  or  department  under  the
  provisions of this  chapter  except  article  eleven  hereof;  provided,
  however,  that  no  such  appeal  shall  be allowed (a) if the action or
  determination involved relates solely to matters of internal  management
  of  the  department,  or (b) if the action or determination involved was
  considered and approved  in  advance  by  the  commission.  The  appeals
  authorized  by  this  subdivision shall be instituted by applications in
  writing  to  the  commission  within  thirty  days  of  the  action   or
  determination  to be reviewed. The commission, for good cause shown, may
  waive  such  thirty-day  limitation.  The  commission  may   make   such
  investigation  or  inquiry  into  the  facts  relative  to the action or
  determination appealed from as may be deemed advisable and  may  affirm,
  reverse or modify such action or determination;
6.  Make determinations of all appeals filed with the state commission
  pursuant to the  provisions  of  section  one  hundred  twenty  of  this
  chapter;
6-a.  Submit  a report on or before January thirty-first of each year,
  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 the final disposition  or  dispositions  of
  each appeal.
7.  Meet  in  Albany  at least once in each calendar month, except the
  month of August, and hold such other meetings at such places within  the
  state  as the needs of the public service may require. A majority of the
  members of the commission shall constitute a quorum.