[Adopted 12-3-2002 by Ord. No. 28-2002]
All applicants for initial appointment to classified positions
within the Borough of Washington Police Department shall be given
residency preference in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40A:14-123.1a and
New Jersey Department of Personnel regulations. This article shall
have no effect on promotional appointments.
A.
The New Jersey Department of Personnel shall provide separate and
successive lists of eligibles for consideration by the appointing
authority in the following manner:
B.
Within each such classification, duly qualified applicants who are
veterans shall be accorded all such veterans' preferences as
are provided by law. Persons discharged from the service within six
months prior to making application to such municipality who fulfill
the requirement of N.J.S.A. 40A:14-123.1, and who, thereby, are entitled
to appointment notwithstanding their failure to meet the New Jersey
residency requirement at the time of their initial application, shall
be placed in Class 3.
A.
The appointing authority shall first appoint all those in Class 1
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.
Residency requirements shall be met by the announced closing
date for the examination.