Title CVS, Civil Service

§ 166. Payment of benefits. Any benefits payable under the plan may be made either directly to the attending physicians, hospitals, medical groups, or others furnishing the services upon which a claim is based, or to the covered employee, upon presentation of valid bills for suc…

§ 167. Contributions. 1. (a) The full cost of premium or subscription\ncharges for the coverage of retired state employees who are enrolled in\nthe statewide and the supplementary health benefit plans established\npursuant to this article and who retired prior to January first,\…

§ 167-a. Reimbursement for medicare premium charges. Upon exclusion\nfrom the coverage of the health benefit plan of supplementary medical\ninsurance benefits for which an active or retired employee or a\ndependent covered by the health benefit plan is or would be eligible\nunde…

§ 168. Assessment of certain costs. 1. If the salary or compensation of any officers and employees of the state is paid from a special or administrative fund or funds, other than the state purposes fund or the local assistance fund of the general fund of the state or the capital…

§ 17. Jurisdiction. 1. County civil service commission or personnel officer. The civil service commission or personnel officer of a county shall administer the provisions of this chapter with respect to the offices and employments in the classified service of such county and the…

§ 17-a. Placement of certain director of school facility positions. 1. The legislature hereby finds and declares that the continued, uninterrupted, adequate and efficient operation of school facilities is necessary for the general welfare of the people; that such adequate operat…

§ 170. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision or section or part of this article shall be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its …

§ 171. Regulations governing the long term care insurance plan. 1. The president, subject to the provisions of this article, is hereby empowered to establish such regulations as may be required for the effective administration of this article. 2. Notwithstanding any inconsistent…

§ 172. Long term care insurance. 1. The president is hereby authorized and directed to establish a long term care insurance plan for state officers and employees and their dependents and officers and employees of the state colleges of agriculture, home economics, industrial labo…

§ 173. Contract for long term care insurance. 1. The president is hereby authorized and directed to purchase a contract or contracts to provide long term care benefits under the long term care insurance plan established in accordance with the provisions of this article. Such lon…

§ 174. Eligibility for participation. 1. All persons who, as of the effective date of this article, are or shall become eligible to participate in the state health benefit plan established under article eleven of this chapter, shall be eligible to participate in the long term ca…

§ 175. Termination of active employment. The president shall adopt regulations prescribing the terms and conditions under which an employee may continue coverage under the long term care insurance plan following termination of active employment; provided, however, that such regu…

§ 176. Contributions. 1. The full cost of premium or subscription charges for the long term care insurance plan established pursuant to this article shall be paid by the employee. 2. The chief fiscal officer of a participating employer shall be authorized to deduct from the wage…

§ 177. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its op…

§ 178. Medical examination of public protection officials to detect and identify the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Assailant" means a person arrested and charged with a crime, as defined in section 10.00 of the penal l…

§ 18. Administration of civil service in jointly established agency. 1. Except where otherwise expressly provided by statute, when a public agency is established and maintained jointly by two or more civil divisions, including school districts, in the same county, the provisions…

§ 180. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.

§ 181. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect immediately.

§ 185. Saving clause; construction. 1. Nothing contained in this act shall affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired prior to the time when this act shall take effect, under or by virtue of the provisions of the civil service law as in force immediatel…

§ 186. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the …

§ 19. Election by certain villages, school districts, special districts and public agencies located in two or more counties. The administration of this chapter in a village, school district or special district incorporated or established on or after the effective date of this ac…

§ 2. Definitions. When used in this chapter. 1. The term "commission" or "state commission" means the state civil service commission; 2. The term "president" means the president of the state civil service commission; 3. The term "department" or "civil service department" means t…

§ 20. Rules. 1. Scope of rules. Each municipal civil service commission shall prescribe, amend and enforce suitable rules 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 rules for …

§ 200. Statement of policy. The legislature of the state of New York declares that it is the public policy of the state and the purpose of this act to promote harmonious and cooperative relationships between government and its employees and to protect the public by assuring, at …

§ 201. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. The term "board" means the public employment relations board created by section two hundred five of this article. 2. (a) The term "membership dues deduction" means the obligation or practice of a government to deduct from the salar…

§ 202. Right of organization. Public employees shall have the right to form, join and participate in, or to refrain from forming, joining, or participating in, any employee organization of their own choosing.

§ 203. Right of representation. Public employees shall have the right to be represented by employee organizations, to negotiate collectively with their public employers in the determination of their terms and conditions of employment, and the administration of grievances arising…

§ 204. Recognition and certification of employee organizations. 1. Public employers are hereby empowered to recognize employee organizations for the purpose of negotiating collectively in the determination of, and administration of grievances arising under, the terms and conditi…

§ 204-a. Agreements between public employers and employee organizations. 1. Any written agreement between a public employer and an employee organization determining the terms and conditions of employment of public employees shall contain the following notice in type not smaller …

§ 205. Public employment relations board. 1. There is hereby created in the department a board, to be known as the public employment relations board, which shall consist of three members appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate from persons rep…

§ 206. Procedures for determination of representation status of local employees. 1. Every government (other than the state or a state public authority), acting through its legislative body, is hereby empowered to establish procedures, not inconsistent with the provisions of sect…

§ 207. Determination of representation status. For purposes of resolving disputes concerning representation status, pursuant to section two hundred five or two hundred six of this article, the board or government, as the case may be, shall 1. define the appropriate employer-empl…

§ 208. Rights accompanying certification or recognition. 1. A public employer shall extend to an employee organization certified or recognized pursuant to this article the following rights: (a) to represent the employees in negotiations notwithstanding the existence of an agreem…

§ 209. Resolution of disputes in the course of collective negotiations. 1. For purposes of this section, an impasse may be deemed to exist if the parties fail to achieve agreement at least one hundred twenty days prior to the end of the fiscal year of the public employer. * 2. P…

§ 209-a. Improper employer practices; improper employee organization practices; application. 1. Improper employer practices. It shall be an improper practice for a public employer or its agents deliberately (a) to interfere with, restrain or coerce public employees in the exerci…

§ 21. Investigations. A municipal commission, a municipal personnel officer, a regional commission or a regional personnel officer, for the purpose of investigating the enforcement and effect of the provisions of this chapter and the rules established thereunder in the service u…

§ 210. Prohibition of strikes. 1. No public employee or employee organization shall engage in a strike, and no public employee or employee organization shall cause, instigate, encourage, or condone a strike. 2. Violations and penalties; presumption; prohibition against consent t…

§ 211. Application for injunctive relief. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eight hundred seven of the labor law, where it appears that public employees or an employee organization threaten or are about to do, or are doing, an act in violation of section two hundred ten …

§ 212. Local government procedures. 1. This article, except sections two hundred one, two hundred two, two hundred three, two hundred four, paragraph b of subdivision four and paragraph d of subdivision five of section two hundred five, paragraph b of subdivision three of sectio…

§ 213. Judicial review and enforcement. (a) Final orders of the board made pursuant to this article shall be conclusive against all parties to its proceedings and persons who have had an opportunity to be parties to its proceedings unless reversed or modified in proceedings for …

§ 214. Management and confidential employees; membership and office in employee organizations. No managerial or confidential employee, as determined pursuant to subdivision seven of section two hundred one of this article, shall hold office in or be a member of any employee orga…

§ 215. Dues or agency shop fee deductions. 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any public employer, any employee organization, the comptroller and the board, or any of their employees or agents, shall not be liable for, and shall have a complete defense to, any cla…

§ 216. Falsely impersonating an employee organization or employee organization representative. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Falsely impersonate an employee organization or employee organization representativ…

§ 22. Certification for positions. Before any new position in the service of a civil division shall be created or any existing position in such service shall be reclassified, the proposal therefor, including a statement of the duties of the position, shall be referred to the mun…

§ 23. Services by state department of civil service; certification of state and municipal eligible lists. 1. Classification services. The state civil service department shall, without charge, upon the request of any municipal commission, render service or technical advice and as…

§ 24. Removal of municipal civil service commissioners and personnel officers. 1. Removal by appointing officer or body. The officer or body having the power of appointment of the members of a municipal civil service commission or a personnel officer may at any time remove any s…

§ 25. Powers of state civil service commission with respect to local rules; appointments and eligible lists. 1. The state civil service commission may, by unanimous vote of the three members (a) amend or rescind any rule, regulation or jurisdictional classification prescribed by…

§ 26. Reports; inspections. 1. Reports. Each municipal civil service commission shall submit a report to the state civil service commission annually on or before the first day of March of the manner in which this chapter and the rules established thereunder have been and are adm…

§ 27. Prohibition against certain public employment and political activities. 1. A member of a municipal civil service commission or personnel officer, appointed on or after the effective date of this act, shall not hold any other public office or employment under the political …

§ 35. Unclassified service. The civil service of the state and each of\nits civil divisions shall be divided into the classified and\nunclassified service. The unclassified service shall comprise the\nfollowing:\n (a) all elective offices;\n (b) all offices filled by election or…