There shall be a Civil Service Commission, with the powers and duties conferred or imposed by law upon municipal civil service commissions. The Civil Service Commissioners of the City in office when this Charter goes into effect shall continue, with the powers and duties provided by law, and, under the rules of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Ashland, heretofore promulgated and adopted, subject however to Section 1 of the amendments thereto, and, at the expiration of the respective terms of said Commissioners, the successors to said Commissioners shall be appointed in the manner and for the terms provided by law, and, in case of a vacancy in the office of any such Commissioner the vacancy shall be filled by a like appointment for the unexpired term.
Only such offices and places of employment as are now classified in Rule One of the Code of Rules of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Ashland, or such other appointive offices and places of employment as the Civil Service Commission may hereafter classify, shall be under Civil Service in the City of Ashland, Ohio.
The Ashland Civil Service Commission is authorized to adopt and promulgate local rules and regulations that vary from state civil service procedure as contained in the Ohio Revised Code and the Ohio Administrative Code. (Amended November 6, 2007)
NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS