Code of Vermont Rules › Agency 10 - AGENCY OF ADMINISTRATION › Sub-Agency 040 - PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT › Chapter 003 - REGISTERS › Section 10 040 003 - REGISTERS

Current through June, 2024
Section 8.01 Establishment of a Register
The Commissioner will prepare a list of persons qualified and
				  eligible for appointment to positions in one or more classes. This list will
				  include candidates for re-employment, competitive appointment, transfer,
				  demotion, and restoration. Candidates for competitive appointment must have
				  passed the appropriate examination and shall be listed in order of qualifying
				  score, highest score first. Candidates for competitive appointment may include
				  agency promotional, State promotional and/or open-competitive
				  candidates.
8.011 Scores on a register
				will normally remain active for two years from the date of examination, except
				that this period may be reduced or extended by the Commissioner.
8.012 The name of a candidate may remain on a
				register so long as he has an active score or, if he has no score, so long as
				he remains eligible for re-employment, transfer, demotion or restoration,
				unless removed at the candidate's request or by the Commissioner for reasons
				authorized by sub sections 7.06 and 8.02.
8.013 Veterans' preference will be granted as
				authorized by law in the manner described in sub sections 8.0131 through 8.0136
				below.
8.0131 Those veterans,
				ex-servicemen or ex-servicewomen who at the time of application are
				totally-disabled as a result of a service-connected disability shall have ten
				points added to their qualifying score, subject to sub sections 8.0135 and
				8.0136.
8.0132 Spouses of
				totally-disabled veterans, ex-servicemen or ex-servicewomen whose disability is
				service-connected and who themselves have been unable to qualify on a State
				civil service examination by reason of their disability, and unmarried widows
				or widowers of deceased veterans, ex-servicemen or ex-servicewomen whose
				military service occurred during a period of war, in a campaign or expedition
				for which a campaign badge has been authorized, or subsequent to June 30, 1955,
				shall have ten points added to their qualifying score, subject to subsection
				8.0135.
8.0133 Those veterans,
				ex-servicemen or ex-servicewomen who at the time of application are
				partially-disabled as a result of a service-connected disability shall have
				five points added to their qualifying score, subject to sub sections 8.0135 and
				8.0136.
8.0134 Those veterans,
				ex-servicemen or ex-servicewomen whose military service occurred during a
				period of war, in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been
				authorized, or subsequent to June 30, 1955; and who do not qualify for
				veterans' preference under subsection 8.0131 or 8.0133 shall have five points
				added to their qualifying score, subject to sub sections 8.0135 and 8.0136.
8.0135 Veterans' preference points
				shall not be added to the score of an individual otherwise eligible for
				veterans' preference unless all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The individual meets the minimum
				qualifications for application for the class;
(2) The individual achieves a qualifying
				score on the examination;
(3) An
				appointing authority requests an open-competitive certificate which is drawn
				from the register upon which the individual's name appears;
(4) Military service was active duty of at
				least ninety days duration (not counting service under an initial period of
				active duty for training as part of the "six-month" Reserve or National Guard
				program) rendered in any branch of the armed forces of the United States and
				terminated under honorable conditions.
8.0136 No veterans' preference will be given
				when the monthly service retirement allowance of any individual at the time of
				application is more than the median of all different armed forces monthly net
				allowances existing at the time of application.