N.Y. Civil Service Law § 55-b: Employment of persons with disabilities by the state

§ 55-b. Employment of persons with disabilities by the state. 1. The

commission may determine up to seventeen hundred positions with duties

such as can be performed by persons with a physical or mental disability

who are found otherwise qualified to perform satisfactorily the duties

of any such position. Positions designated to be filled pursuant to this

section may be filled on a full-time or part-time basis. Upon such

determination the said positions shall be classified in the

noncompetitive class, and may be filled only by persons who shall have

been certified by the employee health service of the department as being

a person with either a physical or mental disability. The number of

persons appointed pursuant to this section shall not exceed seventeen

hundred.

2. Those employees hired under subdivision one of this section, shall

be afforded the same opportunity to take promotional examinations as

provided to employees in the competitive class.