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N.Y. Civil Service Law § 59-d: Public posting of employment opportunities

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  1. Civil Service Law
  2. Article 4. Recruitment of Personnel
  3. Title A. Examinations and Eligible Lists

*§ 59-d. Public posting of employment opportunities. The department

shall make publicly available on its website all employment

opportunities in the civil service of the state and information on

obtaining employment with the state, including, but not limited to,

vacancies in the competitive, non-competitive and labor jurisdictional

classes, announcements for upcoming open-competitive and promotional

examinations, test application instructions, and designations of which

employment opportunities are eligible to be filled by individuals with

disabilities and veterans with disabilities, including whether such

positions may be filled on a full-time or part-time basis, pursuant to

section fifty-five-b and section fifty-five-c, as amended by a chapter

of the laws of two thousand twenty-three, of this title. The president

shall work in conjunction with the New York state department of labor

and the governor's office of employee relations in order to effectuate

the provisions of this section.

* NB Effective until December 31, 2027 OR thirty days after the

commissioner of civil service certifies that the department's website is

able to accommodate the amendments to section 59-d of the civil service

law made by chapter 664 of 2025, whichever occurs earlier

* § 59-d. Public posting of employment opportunities. 1. For the

purposes of this section, the term "municipality" shall mean a village,

town, city, or county.

2. The department shall make publicly available on its website all

employment opportunities in the civil service of the state and

information on obtaining employment with the state, including, but not

limited to, vacancies in the competitive, non-competitive and labor

jurisdictional classes, announcements for upcoming open-competitive and

promotional examinations, test application instructions, and

designations of which employment opportunities are eligible to be filled

by individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities,

including whether such positions may be filled on a full-time or

part-time basis, pursuant to section fifty-five-b and section

fifty-five-c, as amended by a chapter of the laws of two thousand

twenty-three, of this title.

3. The department shall provide municipalities in the state with the

ability to post municipal employment opportunities on the same website

of the department under which state civil service positions are posted

pursuant to subdivision two of this section, including all other

relevant information as described under subdivision two of this section.

Such municipal employment opportunities shall be posted in a format

where job seekers may search by municipality and municipal employment

position type.

4. The president shall work in conjunction with the New York state

department of labor, the governor's office of employee relations, and

municipalities seeking to post municipal employment positions pursuant

to subdivision three of this section, in order to effectuate the

provisions of this section.

* NB Effective December 31, 2027 OR thirty days after the commissioner

of civil service certifies that the department's website is able to

accommodate the amendments to section 59-d of the civil service law made

by chapter 664 of 2025, whichever occurs earlier

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