As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
DOMICILIARY
In the context of what follows, a person having a permanent residence
within the County of Ulster, New York, and its geographic borders and who
has the intention that same be his or her permanent domicile.
EMPLOYMENT
Deemed to embrace all forms of employment, including, but not limited
to, civil service exempt, competitive and noncompetitive civil service, and
provisional employment, where the compensation for such employment is provided
for out of general revenues of the City of Kingston, or out of revenues of
any agency thereof where the budgets involved are subject to approval of the
Common Council or Mayor.
GEOGRAPHIC LIMITS
The boundary lines of the City of Kingston, New York, as set forth
on the Official Map of the City of Kingston, New York, controlled by the Office
of the City Engineer.
Except as otherwise provided in laws, statutes, rules and regulations
which are superior to and binding upon the City of Kingston, New York, and
which provide that employment in certain categories shall be open to applicants
from a wider geographic base, all employment by the City of Kingston, New
York, shall be restricted to domiciliaries of the County of Ulster, New York,
who are domiciled within not to exceed a ten-mile radius externally from the
geographical limits of the City of Kingston.
All persons originally employed on the basis of their domicile within
such geographic limits who shall, during the term of such employment, remove
therefrom and establish domiciliaries elsewhere, shall thereupon forfeit their
right of continued employment forthwith, and the position so occupied by such
persons shall thereupon be deemed vacated.
Nothing herein contained shall require the City of Kingston, New York,
or any of its departments to limit employment as hereinabove provided with
respect to any position of employment for which, by reason of special skills,
aptitudes and expertise, an appropriate appointment cannot be made to fill
such position with a domiciliary, but before any such exceptions shall become
effective, it shall be necessary for the Common Council of the City of Kingston,
New York, or if the position to be filled in the City of Kingston Laboratory,
the Board of Managers of said laboratory, upon certification of the necessary
facts and by appropriate resolution, to exempt such position or positions
from the restrictions herein contained, including the restriction on continued
domicile, and the Common Council, or the Board of Managers of the City of
Kingston Laboratory, should the positions to be filled exist in said laboratory,
may thereupon relax such restriction by appropriate resolution, either eliminating
geographic limitations or extending the same.
Nothing herein contained shall affect the continued employment of persons
now employed by any department or agency of the City of Kingston, New York,
where such employment and the right of employee has become vested in a person
or persons who would otherwise be disqualified from serving as such employee
by reason hereof.