[Adopted 5-16-1977 by Ord. No. 21-77]
[Amended 9-19-1994 by Ord. No. 30-94]
A. 
All applicants for appointment to positions of employment with the City of Hackensack, specifically including but not limited to positions as members of the Police Department or Fire Department, shall be residents of the City of Hackensack and shall maintain continuous residency within the City of Hackensack as of the announced closing date of the New Jersey Department of Personnel Examination, through and including the date of appointment.
B. 
Before any person shall be appointed as an employee of the City of Hackensack, classification shall be established for all duly qualified applicants as follows:
(1) 
Class I: residents of the City of Hackensack.
(2) 
Class II: other residents of the County of Bergen.
(3) 
Class III: residents of counties contiguous to Bergen County.
(4) 
Class IV: other residents of the State of New Jersey.
The City Manager shall first appoint all those in Class I and then those in each succeeding class in the order above listed and shall appoint a person or persons in any such class only to a vacancy or vacancies remaining after all qualified applicants in the preceding class or classes have been appointed or have declined an offer of appointment.
The classes of qualified applicants defined in § 17-4 of this Article shall be considered as separate and successive lists of eligibles, and the Civil Service Commission shall, when requested to certify eligibles for positions specified in this Article, make such certifications from said classes separately and successively and shall certify no persons from any such class until all persons in the preceding class or classes have been appointed or have declined offers of appointment.
The Article shall apply only to initial appointments and not to promotional appointments of persons already employees of the City of Hackensack.
In making temporary appointments, the City Manager shall utilize the classifications set forth in § 17-4 and shall classify accordingly all duly qualified applicants for the position or positions to be temporarily filled.