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

* § 55-c. Employment of veterans with disabilities by the state.

1. The commission may determine up to five hundred positions with duties

such as can be performed by disabled veterans and veterans with

disabilities 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 veterans of the

armed forces of the United States (a) who establish by appropriate

documentary evidence that they are disabled veterans, as defined in

paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter,

or (b) by those veterans, as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one

of section eighty-five of this chapter, who shall have been certified by

the employee health service of the department as being disabled but

capable of performing the duties of said positions. Priority in

certification and referral of both such disabled veterans and certified

disabled but capable veterans shall be given to those veterans who

received a wound in combat, as documented by the awarding of the purple

heart, as authorized by the United States department of defense, and

that wound is the cause of, or a substantially contributing factor to,

the degree of impairment, who otherwise meet the requirements of this

section. The number of veterans appointed pursuant to this section shall

not exceed five 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.

3. When posting jobs that fall under the provisions of this section,

all state agencies shall prominently identify on such posting that such

job is "55-c Eligible".

* NB There are 2 § 55-c's