The Commission, in classifying positions under this subchapter, shall prescribe standards of fitness and efficiency for each office, employment or position and shall adapt each examination to the respective position. All examinations shall be impartial, fair and practical and designed to test the relative qualifications and fitness of applicants to discharge the duties of the respective employments which they seek to fill. Notice of the time, place, and scope of all examinations shall be given 10 days in advance by publication and by posting in the same manner as rules for the respective departments. Notice shall also be mailed to all applicants on the proper register at least 10 days in advance. Applicants for position of trust shall be especially examined as to moral character, sobriety and integrity; and no question in any examinations shall relate to religious convictions or affiliations. The head of the Police Department shall assist the Commission in making up its classification and in conducting examination in the Department on request.
(Prior Code, § 2.01, Subd. 10)