[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of North Arlington 6-7-1938 by Ord. No. 525 (Ch.
8 of the 1984 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes officers, position holders and employees as such.
The schedules heretofore referred to herein[1] 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.
[1]
Editor's Note: A preamble to Ord. No. 525
recited that at the general election held in November 1937, there
was submitted to the voters of the Borough of North Arlington the
question of whether or not the Borough of North Arlington should adopt
the provisions of the Civil Service Act of the State of New Jersey,
and said adoption was duly approved and authorized by a majority of
the voters of the Borough of North Arlington at said election; that
immediately thereafter the Civil Service Commission of the State of
New Jersey made a survey of all borough officers and employees covering
the duties, salaries and respective departments of said employees;
and that following such survey the Civil Service Commission submitted
to the Common Council of the Borough of North Arlington two separate
and distinct schedules, as follows:
Schedule 1. A complete list of the employees
of the Borough of North Arlington giving suggested titles for each
employee, the salary of the same and the department to which such
employee is assigned.
Schedule 2. A duties classification of the
employees, setting forth the suggested titles to be used for the employees
of the Borough of North Arlington, their respective duties, typical
tasks, minimum qualifications for the purpose of examination and suggested
salary schedules.
The schedules in Ord. No. 525 have been amended
from time to time: 6-20-39 by Ord. No. 535, 4-2-63 by Ord. No. 837,
4-20-64 by Ord. No. 849, 5-19-64 by Ord. No. 851, 3-30-65 by Ord.
No. 866, 9-21-65 by Ord. No. 876, 5-16-72 by Ord. No. 982, 5-16-72
by Ord. No. 983, 5-16-72 by Ord. No. 986, 5-16-72 by Ord. No. 995,
2-20-73 by Ord. No. 1004, 4-3-73 by Ord. No. 1006, 7-17-73 by Ord.
No. 1011, 8-14-73 by Ord. No. 1014, 6-25-74 by Ord. No. 1029, 8-6-74
by Ord. No. 1035, 8-6-74 by Ord. No. 1036, 5-20-75 by Ord. No. 1056
and 11-25-1975 by Ord. No. 1066.
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.
A.
The standard titles, as set forth in Schedule 1, shall
be applied to all existing offices, positions and employments in the
classified civil service of the Borough of North Arlington. Changes
in titles shall not alter or affect the salaries of the present incumbents
of offices or positions so rearranged.
B.
The standard titles shall be used to designate positions
in all reports to the Civil Service Commission, departmental records
and all payrolls or accounts of salaries and wages of all departments,
institutions and commissions submitted to the Civil Service Commission
for check and certification.
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.
A.
Advancement to the next higher rate within the range
of compensation provided for a particular position shall be conditional
upon service at each rate for at least the period specified in the
schedules, or later determined upon by the Mayor and Council, and
upon satisfactory efficiency in the performance of the specified duties.
B.
Advance in compensation from rate to rate within the
range for each position shall be made at such periods as may be determined
upon by the Mayor and Council for all officers and employees who are
eligible for advancement, after the completion of the designated period
of satisfactory service.
C.
Nothing in these regulations, the rules or the Civil
Service Commission or the action of the Mayor and Council in adopting
the classification and salary standardization plan shall be construed
to mean that it shall be mandatory upon the head of the department,
institution or commission to advance an officer or employee to the
next higher salary rate within the range of compensation provided
for that position, merely because such officer or employee has served
at the lower salary rate for a certain period of time.
D.
An increase above the maximum salary rate of an existing position shall not be made except in case of increased duties or responsibilities which actually involve a change of position or until changes in the prevailing compensation schedule for the position or positions in question are made as provided in § 9-7.
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.
A.
All employees of the Borough of North Arlington on
November 2, 1937, the date on which civil service was adopted in the
Borough of North Arlington, who are presently employees of the Borough
of North Arlington, shall continue to receive the salaries which they
are now receiving until the same are changed as provided in these
regulations.
B.
All employees appointed since the adoption of civil
service in the Borough of North Arlington, namely since November 2,
1937, whether such appointment was temporary or permanent, shall,
upon the adoption hereof, continue to receive the same salary they
or each of them are now receiving. Any person holding a temporary
appointment at the time of the adoption of this chapter and who may
hereafter be permanently appointed shall continue to receive the same
salary as that being paid to him or her as a temporary employee, anything
herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
C.
All new employees appointed after the adoption of this classification and compensation plan shall be appointed at the minimum rate established for such position, except as provided in § 9-12B hereof.
D.
All employees now receiving the maximum of the salary
established for such employees or more than the maximum so established
in this classification and compensation plan shall not receive further
advancements in compensation so long as they continue to serve in
such classification or 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.
