2-152-360 Appointments in the service.
   Whenever any grade or rank in the classified service of the city shall have been divided into salary groups, for the purpose of varying compensation according to efficiency and seniority, and the city council shall have appropriated according to such salary groups for the positions in the said grades of service, appointment by the head of the department or by the appointing officer shall be to the group having the lowest fixed salary rate.
(Prior code § 25-32)