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Borough of Washington, NJ
Warren County
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[Adopted 12-3-2002 by Ord. No. 28-2002]
All applicants for initial appointment to classified positions within the Borough of Washington Police Department shall be given residency preference in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40A:14-123.1a and New Jersey Department of Personnel regulations. This article shall have no effect on promotional appointments.
A. 
The New Jersey Department of Personnel shall provide separate and successive lists of eligibles for consideration by the appointing authority in the following manner:
(1) 
Residents of the Borough of Washington.
(2) 
Other residents of Warren County.
(3) 
Other residents of the State of New Jersey.
(4) 
All other qualified applicants.
B. 
Within each such classification, duly qualified applicants who are veterans shall be accorded all such veterans' preferences as are provided by law. Persons discharged from the service within six months prior to making application to such municipality who fulfill the requirement of N.J.S.A. 40A:14-123.1, and who, thereby, are entitled to appointment notwithstanding their failure to meet the New Jersey residency requirement at the time of their initial application, shall be placed in Class 3.
A. 
The appointing authority shall first appoint all those in Class 1 and then those in each succeeding class in the order above listed, and shall appoint a person or persons in any such class only to a vacancy or vacancies remaining after all qualified applicants in the preceding class or classes have been appointed or have declined an offer of appointment.
B. 
In making temporary appointments, the appointing authority may utilize the classifications set forth in § 13-16 of this article, and shall classify accordingly all duly qualified applicants for the positions to be temporarily filled.
Residency requirements shall be met by the announced closing date for the examination.