Section 12-201
§ 12-201 City surveyors; examination, appointment of. a. The
commissioner of citywide administrative services shall have power and it
shall be his or her duty to appoint an examining board which shall serve
without compensation, consisting of a chairperson, two consulting or
topographical engineers in the employ of the city, and two city
surveyors engaged in private practice. Such board shall formulate and
conduct examinations of applicants who apply to the commissioner for
appointment as city surveyors of the city of New York. Every person
applying for examination shall pay an examining fee to be fixed by the
commissioner. The fee so collected shall be paid into the general fund.
The commissioner, as soon as practicable thereafter, shall certify to
the mayor all those applicants who have qualified by successfully
passing such examination. To be eligible for appointment, the applicant
must be licensed by the state of New York as a land surveyor and must
have a minimum of six years surveying experience within the limits of
the city.
b. There shall be appointed by the mayor as many city surveyors as are
qualified by successfully passing such examination. Each city surveyor,
before entering on his or her duties shall take an oath well and truly
to perform such duties.
Section 12-202
§ 12-202 Commissioner of citywide administrative services to conduct
examinations for licenses for master plumbers. The commissioner of
citywide administrative services, in addition to his or her other powers
and duties, shall formulate and conduct examinations to determine the
merit and fitness of applicants who apply, pursuant to section 26-143 of
the code, to the commissioner of health for licenses to engage in the
trade, business or calling of a duly registered and licensed master
plumber. The department of citywide administrative services shall keep
in its office an offical roster of candidates who have succeeded in
passing such examinations and shall certify to the commissioner of
health the names of such candidates who are successful.
Section 12-203
§ 12-203 Assistance of committee of plumbing industry. The
commissioner of citywide administrative services shall call upon the
plumbing industry for assistance in the preparation, conduct and rating
of the practical and written examination of all persons seeking a
plumber's license, pursuant to section 26-143 of the code. Such
assistance shall consist of the obtaining of the services of two
registered and licensed master plumbers of not less than ten years'
experience as such, and one journeyman plumber of not less than ten
years' experience as such, for each examination. The commissioner may
also call upon duly accredited sanitary engineers or physicians to
assist in the preparation and conduct of such examination. The names of
such master and journeyman plumbers selected to assist the commissioner
shall be publicly drawn for each examination from a panel of not less
than thirty names furnished to the commissioner by a special committee
to consist of one experienced master plumber representing each of the
established and recognized master plumbers' associations, or branches
thereof, in the five boroughs of the city, and one experienced
journeyman plumber representing the established and recognized
organization having jurisdiction over journeyman plumbers in the city.
Such committee members shall be named once each year by the incumbent
presidents or boards of directors or governors of their respective
associations or organizations. No such master or journeyman plumber
shall serve as such assistant oftener than once in five years. The
compensation of each such person selected by the commissioner to assist
in the preparation, conduct and rating of the written and practical
examinations shall be fixed by the commissioner.
Section 12-205
§ 12-205 Inspectors; certificate. The commissioner of citywide
administrative services shall have sole power to examine applicants for
positions as inspectors of plumbing and no person shall be appointed an
inspector for plumbing who shall not have obtained a certificate from
such commissioner.
Section 12-206.
§ 12-206. Eligible List Reporting. a. Definitions. For the purposes of
this section only:
1. "Eligible list" shall mean any list established by the department
of citywide administrative services after the administration of either
an open-competitive or a promotional examination containing the names of
persons eligible to be considered for appointment or promotion by an
appointing authority in the city of New York pursuant to article four of
the New York state civil service law.
2. "Promotion list" shall mean the agency-specific list established by
the department of citywide administrative services after the
administration of a promotional examination containing the names of
persons eligible to be considered for promotion by an appointing
authority in the city of New York pursuant to article four of the New
York state civil service law.
b. The commissioner of the department of citywide administrative
services shall submit a report on an annual basis beginning in two
thousand five to the mayor, comptroller, public advocate and speaker of
the council of the city of New York, by the first day of June, for the
previous calendar year, regarding eligible lists. Such report shall
include, but not be limited to, the following:
1. each eligible list established during the reporting year by the
department of citywide administrative services;
2. the dates such eligible lists were established;
3. the number of persons appointed or promoted from each eligible list
and the agencies to which such appointments or promotions were made;
4. the number of persons appointed or promoted on a provisional basis
during the reporting year and the agencies to which such appointments or
promotions were made;
5. the number of persons who, during the reporting year, were
considered and not selected three times from promotion lists;
6. the number of persons removed from eligible lists and the number of
persons removed from promotion lists and the reason reported to the
department of citywide administrative services by the agency for such
removal; and
7. the number of persons restored to eligible lists and the number of
persons restored to promotion lists after having been removed.
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