As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
EMPLOYEE
Includes officers, position holders and employees as such.
The schedules heretofore referred to herein and recommended to this body for adoption by the Civil
Service Commission of the State of New Jersey, consisting of the following,
are hereby made a part of this chapter in their entirety, the same
as though specifically set forth herein, said schedules being filed
with the Borough Clerk coincident with the passing of this chapter,
and the same are hereby adopted by this body as the official civil
service classification of positions and employees in and for the Borough
of North Arlington:
A. Schedule 1 consists of a schedule of cataloged lists
of the present employees of the Borough of North Arlington, together
with the title of each such employee, the salary as of November 2,
1937, and the date of election or appointment.
B. Schedule 2 is a schedule of all positions in the Borough
of North Arlington and contains under such positions the duties, typical
tasks, minimum qualifications, probable line of promotion and salary
range for each such position.
For the purpose of effecting and maintaining
the classification and salary standardization plan recommended by
the Civil Service Commission of the State of New Jersey, the following
regulations are hereby adopted and shall be in full force and effect
with respect to all positions and employees in the Borough of North
Arlington. Said regulations shall apply to the contents of Schedules
1 and 2, hereinabove referred to and hereby adopted, as well as to
the terms of this chapter.
The specifications herein provided shall apply
to all existing authorized offices, positions and employments or such
as have been established or created in the classified civil service
in the Borough of North Arlington, shall supersede all groupings of
employments not consistent thereto and shall be applied subject to
the conditions in these regulations.
The specifications herein provided shall not
in themselves be construed to define or prescribe the organization
or procedure under which employees shall work, nor to limit or restrict
the responsible administrative officials in exercising supervision
or assigning such other duties as may be in the interest of good administration
or necessary in case of emergency; provided, however, that this chapter
shall not be interpreted as authorization to assign, detail or transfer
an employee to a position involving duties of an essentially different
character.
All departmental requests for additions to or
changes in the specifications, involving either the classification
or compensation schedules together with full reporting of maintenance
request, shall be first presented to the Mayor and Council, which
shall, as it deems proper, forward the requests, together with its
recommendations, to the Civil Service Commission for investigation
and consideration. No reclassifications, change in compensation schedules
or maintenance allowances shall be effective until they have received
the approval of both the Mayor and Council and the Civil Service Commission.
When new positions are to be created, there
shall be submitted by the department head, through the Mayor and Council,
to the Civil Service Commission a statement of the duties, qualification
requirements and other matters affecting the proper classification
title, grade and compensation, and the necessity for the creation
of such position. No office or employment shall be considered new
unless the duties thereof are found to be substantially different
from those of every other existing position in the classified service
of the borough. When the Civil Service Commission shall find that
an office or employment is in fact new or that the requested changes
affecting any existing position should be made, the Commission shall
so classify such position under the appropriate service, grade and
title, and it shall become a part of the classification of the Borough
of North Arlington, upon approval by the Mayor and Council and the
Civil Service Commission.
Appointments to newly-created or vacant offices
or employments shall be made at the lowest rate within the standard
range of compensation for such office or employment. In cases of promotion
where an employee to be promoted is receiving compensation equal to
or greater than the minimum rate established for the position to which
promotion is to be made, appointment shall be made at the nearest
next salary rate higher than the compensation received by such employee.
Promotions from one class to the next higher
class of positions in the classified civil service shall involve a
change of duties and shall be made only when a vacancy has been created
by resignation, transfer, death or dismissal, or when the needs of
the service require additional employees in the higher position.
[Added 5-9-2002 by Ord. No. 1849]
A. The Borough of North Arlington hereby recognizes and
shall grant a preference for the recruitment and hiring of police
officers to residents of Bergen County followed by residents of Essex
County.
B. The Borough of North Arlington hereby recognizes and
shall grant a preference for the recruitment and hiring of all employees,
other than police officers, to residents of Bergen County followed
by residents of all counties contiguous to the County of Bergen.
C. The Borough Administrator shall forward a fully certified
copy of this section to the Department of Personnel immediately upon
enactment by the Mayor and Council.