[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Copake 3-10-2022 by L.L. No. 2-2022. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
This chapter shall be referred to as "A Local Law to Establish
the Position of Confidential Administrative Assistant to the Town
Supervisor, with the Policy Influencing/Confidential Designation,
to be a Position in the Exempt Class of the Classified Service and
Authorizing the Supervisor of the Town of Copake to Appoint an Individual
Who Has Not Taken the Civil Service Examination to Such Position to
Serve at the Pleasure of the Supervisor."
This chapter is enacted pursuant to the Municipal Home Rule
Law, the New York Town Law, and New York Civil Service Law § 41.
A.
Pursuant to Civil Service Law § 41, Subdivision 1(c), one
secretary of each municipal board or commission authorized by law
to appoint a secretary shall be in the exempt class.
B.
The Town of Copake hereby deems the position of Confidential Administrative
Assistant to the Supervisor, with the policy-influencing/confidential
designation, to be in the exempt class pursuant to Civil Service Law
§ 41, Subdivision 1(c).
C.
Positions placed in the exempt class constitute an exception to the
constitutional mandate that all positions as far as practicable must
be filled only after competitive examinations. Pursuant to the Rules
for the Classified Service of the Department of Civil Service,[1] positions in the exempt class, other than unskilled labor
positions, are those for which competitive or noncompetitive examinations
or other qualification requirements are not practicable.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 4 NYCRR 1.1 et seq.
D.
The Supervisor of the Town of Copake is hereby authorized to appoint
an individual who has not taken the civil service examination to the
position of Confidential Administrative Assistant to the Supervisor,
which person shall serve at the pleasure of the Supervisor.
If any word, phrase, sentence, part, section, subsection, or
other portion of this chapter or any application thereof to any person
or circumstance is declared void, unconstitutional, or invalid for
any reason, then such word, phrase, sentence, part, section, subsection,
or other portion, or the proscribed application thereof, shall be
severable, and the remaining provisions of this chapter, and all applications
thereof, not having been declared void, unconstitutional, or invalid,
shall remain in full force and effect.
This chapter shall become effective upon filing with the New
York Secretary of State.
