The term of office of the Personnel Officer shall be for six
years.
All officers and employees of the Town of Babylon and of all
departments, offices, institutions and agencies thereof shall be members
of the classified service, except the following:
B. Heads of departments, including the members of all boards and commissions,
and including department heads as defined in the Suburban Town Law.
C. Employees of the Town Board.
The offices and positions in the classified service of the Town
of Babylon shall be arranged in classes and filled in the same manner
as now or hereafter provided by the Civil Service Law of this state
in the case of offices and positions in the classified service of
suburban towns, provided that the classification of offices and positions
in force on the date on which this chapter becomes effective in the
Town of Babylon shall continue in force until modified by rules and
regulations adopted in due course by the Town of Babylon Department
Civil Service subject to the control and supervision of the State
Civil Service Commission.
In addition to such provisions as may limit removal or disciplinary
action with regard to employees, as set forth in the Civil Service
Law of the State of New York, and the rules for the classified service
of the Town of Babylon as promulgated by the Town of Babylon Department
of Civil Service, no employee of the Town of Babylon in the noncompetitive
class or labor class of the Civil Service who has been in the service
of the Town of Babylon continuously for a period of six months from
the date of his/her appointment shall be removed or otherwise subjected
to any disciplinary penalty except for incompetency or misconduct
shown after a hearing upon stated charges in the manner provided in
§ 75 of the Civil Service Law of the State of New York,
or in a manner as otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit removal of an employee
at the end of or during the term of probation, except as provided
by rule of the Town of Babylon Department of Civil Service.
The status of persons in the classified service of the Town
of Babylon on the date on which this chapter becomes effective in
the Town of Babylon, including pension rights, shall not be affected
by this chapter.
It shall be the duty of the Town of Babylon Department of Civil
Service to make investigations concerning the enforcement and effect
of this chapter, and to do everything in its power to secure observance
of the spirit and letter of the Civil Service Law.
This chapter is adopted as a local law pursuant to Article IX
of the New York State Constitution, § 10 of the Municipal
Home Rule Law, § 16, Subdivision 1(b), and § 15,
Subdivision l(b), of the Civil Service Law of the State of New York.
Upon the establishment of the Town of Babylon Department of Civil
Service, it shall be the duty of the personnel officer, upon appointment,
to adopt and procure the approval of the rules, and, upon failure
to do so within 60 days after appointment, the state civil service
commission shall forthwith make such rules.
This chapter shall take effect not less than one year from the
time of such election.