[Adopted 3-22-1994 by Ord. No. 94-22 (Ch. 96, Art. IV, of the 1990 Code)]
A.
Classification.
(1)
Before any person shall be appointed as a member of
the Police Department and force, the appointing authority may classify
all the duly qualified applicants for the position or positions to
be filled in the following classes:
(2)
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 the City of Vineland who
fulfill the requirements 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 III.
B.
The City of Vineland shall first appoint from those
in Class I and then from 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.
C.
The classes of qualified applicants defined in Subsection A of this section 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.
D.
This section shall apply only to initial appointments
and not to promotional appointments of persons already members of
the Police Department.
E.
In making temporary appointments, the appointing authority may utilize the classifications set forth in Subsection A of this section and shall classify accordingly all duly qualified applicants for the positions to be temporarily filled.
F.
For purposes of this section, a person shall be considered
a Class I applicant if such person is a bona fide resident of the
City of Vineland as of the closing date for the civil service examination
and up to and including the date of appointment.
Promotions to positions on the Police Department
and force shall be based upon merit as determined by suitable promotion
tests for such positions; provided, however, that a resident shall
be appointed rather than a nonresident thereof in any instance in
which the resident and nonresident achieved the same final average
score in such test. The preference granted by this section shall in
no way diminish, reduce or affect the preferences granted to veterans
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 11A:5-1 et seq., or any other provision of law.
