(a) The Civil Service Commission shall prescribe, amend and enforce rules not inconsistent with Ohio R.C. Chapter 124 for:
(1) Classification of positions in the civil service of the City;
(2) Examinations and resignations;
(3) Appointments, promotions, removals, transfers, layoffs, suspensions, reductions and reinstatements; and
(4) Standardization of positions and maintenance of efficiency.
(b) The Commission shall exercise all other powers, perform all other duties, and have all authority granted with respect to the civil service of the City as are prescribed by the Revised Code and conferred by law upon the Director of State Personnel and the State Personnel Board of Review regarding the civil service of the State.
(c) The procedure applicable to reductions, suspensions and removals, as provided in Ohio R.C. 124.33 and 124.34, shall govern the civil service system.
(d) Council, pursuant to Section 12.01 of the City Charter, grants and delegates to the Civil Service Commission the right, power and duty to organize and carry out the provisions of the civil service laws enumerated in Ohio R.C. Chapter 124 for those positions determined to be within the classified service of the City. Council specifically grants to the Civil Service Commission the right, power and duty to:
(1) Adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for its efficient administration and operation which may differ from Ohio R.C. Chapter 124, provided that Council confirms these departures from state law by ordinance or resolution;
(2) Receive position or class specifications from the City administration and thereafter establish by directive who shall be eligible to apply for a position within the classified service and what the minimum qualifications for each job category shall be;
(3) Establish its own method for the conduct of its meetings, which method shall include the right to set the dates thereof and to which method Robert's Rules of Order shall apply unless the Commission directs otherwise;
(4) Act as a hearing board in the appeal of disciplinary actions as provided by Ohio R.C. Chapter 124 or by the rules of the Commission, to modify, affirm or dismiss the orders of the appointing authority and to establish rules for the conduct of these hearings;
(5) Clearly define who is within and without the classified, noncompetitive service of the City, to adopt rules for the conduct of its examinations and the grading thereof prior to the date of the testings, to establish minimal physical qualifications, to establish application procedures, to establish and perpetuate rules pertaining to eligible lists, to establish rules and procedures for the certification of personnel and to provide for temporary appointments, transfers, reinstatements, layoffs, reductions, suspensions and removals, and for any other such proceedings in the administration of its duties as it deems necessary;
(6) Provide a penalty for violation of its rules;
(7) Have secretarial service and budgetary allocations made to it in the conduct of its business; and
(8) Comply and enforce all provisions of Ohio R.C. Chapter 124, when it has no rules which depart therefrom.
(1979 Code 32.12)