Title CVS, Civil Service

Section 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Civil\nService Law. "\n

§ 100. Certification of payrolls. 1. Payroll certification required. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no disbursing or auditing officer of the state or of any civil division thereof shall approve or pay or take any part in approving or paying any salary or compe…

§ 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 appr…

§ 102. Court proceedings. 1. Action to restrain illegal payment of salary or compensation. Any taxpayer as defined in subdivision two hereof shall have the right to bring an action in the supreme court to declare illegal or restrain payment of salary or compensation to any perso…

§ 105. Subversive activities; disqualification. 1. Ineligibility of persons advocating overthrow of government by force or unlawful means. No person shall be appointed to any office or position in the service of the state or of any civil division thereof, nor shall any person em…

§ 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 e…

§ 107. Prohibition against certain political activities; improper influence. 1. Recommendations based on political affiliations. No recommendation or question under the authority of this chapter shall relate to the political opinions or affiliations of any person whatever; and n…

§ 11. Assessment of certain expenses of administration of the\ndepartment of civil service. 1. For purposes of this section,\n (a) The term "expenses of administration" means the total cost of\nadministration of the department, excluding costs of providing services\nto municipal…

§ 115. Policy of the state. 1. In order to attract unusual merit and\nability to the service of the state of New York and all its political\nsubdivisions, to stimulate higher efficiency among the personnel, to\nprovide skilled leadership in administrative departments, to reward\…

§ 116. Classification defined. The terms "classification",\n"reclassification", "classify", and "reclassify" where used in this\narticle refer to position classification as defined in section two of\nthis chapter, unless otherwise expressly stated or unless the context\nrequires…

§ 117. Classification and compensation division. There shall be a\nclassification and compensation division in the department of civil\nservice. The head of such division shall be a director who shall be in\nthe competitive class of the classified civil service. The director and…

§ 118. Powers and duties of the director of classification and\ncompensation. 1. General powers and duties. (a) The director of the\nclassification and compensation division shall be charged generally with\nthe duty and shall have the power\n (1) to classify and reclassify all p…

§ 12. Recruitment of women to state civil service initiative 1. The department, through existing programs, shall provide information to both women and men about high paying jobs and careers, including jobs traditionally dominated by men. Such information shall be distributed as …

§ 120. Applications and appeals. 1. Applications to director. Any\nemployee occupying a position, the title or salary grade of which is\nsubject to the jurisdiction of the director of the classification and\ncompensation division, and any appointing officer, with respect to any\…

§ 121. General provisions relating to classification and\nallocation. 1. Effective date of classification and allocation. Any\nclassification or reclassification of a position and any allocation or\nreallocation of a position to a salary grade made by the director of the\nclassi…

§ 122. Eligibility of incumbents of positions not heretofore\nclassified. A position to which the provisions of this article are\nhereafter extended shall be classified under an appropriate title. For\nthe purpose of continuing the essential activities of the state without\ninte…

§ 123. Prohibition against transfer of employees to competitive\nclass. Nothing in title A of this article shall be construed to effect a\ntransfer to the competitive class of the civil service of any employee\nnot heretofore included in such service.\n

§ 130. Salary grades; minimum and maximum salaries. 1. a. Effective on\nthe dates indicated, salary grades for positions in the competitive,\nnon-competitive and labor classes of the classified service of the state\nof New York in the collective negotiating units designated as t…

§ 131. Determination of salaries. 1. Rates of compensation. An\nemployee holding a position allocated to one of the salary grades\nincluded in section one hundred thirty of this chapter shall receive the\nhiring rate of the salary grade to which his position is allocated and\nma…

§ 132. Reallocations; adjustment of salaries. 1. When any position\nallocated to a salary grade in paragraph b of subdivision one of section\none hundred thirty of this article is reallocated on or after April\nfirst, nineteen hundred seventy-nine to a higher salary grade the ba…

§ 134. Work week of state officers and employees for basic annual\nsalaries; overtime compensation. 1. For all state officers and\nemployees, other than officers and employees of the legislature and the\njudiciary and other than those who shall be excluded pursuant to the\nrules…

§ 135. Extra salary or compensation prohibited. 1. No person holding a\nposition or employment in any department, bureau, commission or office\nto which this article applies and for which a definite salary or\ncompensation has been appropriated or designated, shall receive any\n…

§ 136. Compensation of teachers in state institutions. 1. The term\n"teacher", for purposes of this section, means any employee of a state\nfacility or institution in the office of children and family services in\nthe executive department and in the departments of corrections an…

§ 140. Maintenance and reporting of performance ratings. 1. All\ndepartmental agencies of the state government, whether known as\ndepartments, institutions, boards, commissions, or otherwise, shall keep\nand report, if requested by the civil service department, performance\nrati…

§ 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 st…

§ 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.…

§ 15. Optional forms of local civil service administration. 1. Optional forms of administration. There shall be the following forms of local civil service administration for the purpose of administering the provisions of this chapter in counties, including civil divisions therei…

§ 150. Suspension of pension and annuity during public employment.\nExcept as otherwise provided by sections one hundred one, two hundred\neleven, and two hundred twelve of the retirement and social security\nlaw, section five hundred three of the education law, and except as no…

§ 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…

§ 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 di…

§ 154-b. Agreements between state and employee organization. 1.\nNotwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, where\nan agreement between the state and an employee organization entered into\npursuant to article fourteen of this chapter so provides on behalf…

§ 154-c. Managerial or confidential survivor's benefit; special education fund. 1. The term "managerial or confidential employee" as used in this section shall mean a full-time employee or officer in the executive branch of the state whose position is designated managerial or co…

§ 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 counti…

§ 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 d…

§ 158. Group term life insurance plan and group accident and health\nbenefit plan. 1. The president, subject to the provisions of this\nsection, is hereby empowered to establish regulations relating to, and\nto enter into and administer contracts providing for, a group term life…

§ 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…

§ 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 …

§ 159-b. Excused leave to undertake a screening for cancer. 1. Every\npublic officer, employee of this state, employee of any county, employee\nof any community college, employee of any public authority, employee of\nany public benefit corporation, employee of any board of coope…

§ 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 …

§ 159-d. Excused leave to donate blood. 1. Every public officer or\nemployee of this state shall be entitled to absent himself or herself\nand shall be deemed to have a leave of absence from his or her duties or\nservice as such public officer or employee of this state, for a\ns…

§ 16. Change of form of administration. 1. Election to change form of administration. (a) Counties. The board of supervisors of any county, other than a county wholly included within a city, may at any time and from time to time, authorize the withdrawal of the county from its t…

§ 160. Regulations governing the health benefit plan; advisory committee. 1. The president, subject to the provisions of this article, is hereby empowered to establish regulations relating to: (1) the eligibility of (a) active and (b) retired employees to participate in the heal…

§ 161. Health insurance. 1. The president is hereby authorized and directed to establish a health benefit plan for state officers and employees and their dependents and officers and employees of the state colleges of agriculture, home economics, industrial labor relations and ve…

§ 161-a. Implementation of negotiated agreements. 1. Where, and to the extent that, an agreement between the state and an employee organization entered into pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter provides for health benefits, the president, after receipt of written directi…

§ 162. Contract for health benefits. 1. The president is hereby authorized and directed to purchase a contract or contracts to provide the benefits under the plan of health benefits determined upon in accordance with the provisions of this article. Such contract or contracts sha…

§ 163. Eligibility for benefits. 1. All persons in the service of the state, whether elected, appointed or employed, who elect to participate in such health benefit plan shall be eligible to participate therein, provided, however, that the president may adopt such regulations as…

§ 163-a. Supplementary plan. 1. For the purposes of this section, the term "supplementary plan" shall mean a health benefit plan which provides an adjustment to the deductible or co-insurance liability or to the benefits provided by the statewide health benefit plan purchased pu…

§ 164. Coverage for dependents. 1. Each employee shall be entitled to have his spouse and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of the president, included in the coverage upon agreeing to pay his contribution, if any, to the cost of such coverage for such dependents.…

§ 165. Termination of active employment. 1. The health benefit\ncoverage of any employee and his or her dependents, if any, shall cease\nupon the discontinuance of his or her term of office or employment,\nsubject to regulations which may be prescribed by the president for\nexte…

§ 165-a. Continuation of state health benefit plans for survivors of\nemployees of the state and/or of a political subdivision or of a public\nauthority. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,\nthe president shall permit the unremarried spouse and the depend…