(a) The appointing authority of a department in which a position in the classified service is to be filled, shall notify the Civil Service Commission of the fact, and the Commission shall, except as otherwise provided in this section and Ohio R.C. 124.30 and 124.31, certify to the appointing authority the names and addresses of the ten candidates standing the highest on the eligible list for the class or grade in which the position belongs; provided that the Commission may certify less than ten names if ten names are not available. When less than ten names are certified to an appointing authority, appointment from that list shall not be mandatory.
(b) The appointing authority shall notify the director of such position to be filled, and he/she shall fill such position by appointment of one of the ten persons certified to him/her. If more than one position is to be filled, the number of persons certified from the eligibility list will increase by one for each additional position, and the appointing authority shall appoint in the following manner: each time a selection is made it must be from the top ten, plus one per each additional position, who are willing to accept consideration for the position. If an eligible list becomes exhausted, and until a new list can be created, or when no eligible list for such position exists, names may be certified from eligible lists most appropriate for the group or class in which the position to be filled is classified. A person certified from an eligible list more than two times to the same appointing authority for the same or similar positions, may be omitted from future certification to such appointing authority, provided that certification for a temporary appointment shall not be counted as one of such certifications. Every soldier, sailor, marine, coast guardsman, member of the auxiliary corps as established by Congress, member of the army nurse corps, navy nurse corps, or red cross nurse who has served in the army, navy or hospital service of the United States, and such other military service as is designated by Congress, World War I, World War II, or during the period beginning May 1, 1949, and lasting so long as the armed forces of the United States are engaged in armed conflict or occupation duty, or the selective service or similar conscriptive acts are in effect in the United States, whichever is the later date, who has been honorably discharged or separated under honorable conditions therefrom, after having served a minimum of twelve months, and is a resident of Ohio, and whose name is on the eligible list for a position, shall be entitled to preference as defined in Section 157.02 above in original appointments to any such competitive position in the civil service of the City, over all persons eligible for such appointments and standing on the list therefor, with a rating equal to that of each such person. Appointments to all positions in the classified service, that are not filled by promotion, transfer or reduction, as provided in Ohio R.C. 124.01 to 124.64 and the rules of the Civil Service Commission prescribed under such sections, shall be made only from those persons whose names are certified to the appointing authority, and no employment, except as provided in such sections, shall be otherwise given to the classified service of this City.
(c) All original and promotional appointments, including provisional appointments made pursuant to Ohio R.C. 124.30, shall be for a probationary period, not less than sixty days nor more than one year, to be fixed by the rules of the Civil Service Commission, except as provided in Ohio R.C. 124.231, or except original appointments to a police division as a policeman or policewoman, or to a fire division as a fire fighter which shall be for a probationary period of one year, and no appointment or promotion is final until the appointee has satisfactorily served his/her probationary period. Service as a provisional employee in the same or similar class shall be included in the probationary period. If the service of the probationary employee is unsatisfactory, he/she may be removed or reduced at any time during his/her probationary period after completion of sixty days or one-half of his/her probationary period, whichever is greater. If the appointing authority's decision is to remove the appointee, his/her communication to the Civil Service Commission shall indicate the reason for such decision. dismissal or reduction may be made under provisions of Ohio R.C. 124.34 during the first sixty days or first half of the probationary period, whichever is greater.
(ORC 124.27; Ord. 101-82. Passed 11-22-82; Ord. 76-97. Passed 6-9-97; Ord. 28-2000. Passed 3-13-00; Ord. 20-19. Passed 2-11-19.)