All persons in the regular employ of any enterprise
heretofore or hereafter acquired by the City and operated as a public
enterprise after such acquisition shall be deemed probationary employees
of the City for a period of six months after such enterprise comes
under public ownership by the City. If such enterprise is operated
as a separate department, the head of said department and the chief
assistant or secretary of such department head, or in the case of
a hospital, the Supervisor of Nurses, shall be eligible for appointment
as such without competitive examination or other test and shall be
exempt from the operation of this chapter so far as appointment, to
promotion in and dismissal from service are concerned. All other persons
employed in such enterprises who, upon completion of their probationary
period of six months, shall be retained in said employment shall,
upon recommendation of the head of the department which operates said
enterprise and upon approval of the Civil Service Board thereupon,
be deemed eligible for the respective positions held by them, without
further test or examination, and thereafter all the provisions of
this chapter shall be applicable to such employees as fully as to
other employees of the City.
The spouse of any person who has been in the
City service for not less than 10 years and who has become disabled
while still a member of the City service shall be eligible for appointment
to a vacancy in the City service without a competitive examination
if such spouse is able to prove to the satisfaction of the Civil Service
Board and the appointing authority that he or she is qualified to
fill the position for which applied; in such case, if satisfactory
to the appointing authority, he or she may be appointed to fill the
position for which applied, but such appointment shall be on a probationary
basis for six months; at the expiration of the probationary period,
if the applicant has satisfactorily shown to the appointing authority
that he or she possesses the necessary qualifications to fill the
position, he or she may be appointed without competitive examination
and in preference to persons on the eligible list, if there is such
an eligible list, for the position to which appointed; provided, however,
such appointment may be made only for the period of the disability
of the spouse and may be terminated in case the spouse is ever able
to return to former employment.
