[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the City of Ventnor City 12-21-1981 by Ord. No. 8144. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
A.
Appointments. All applicants for appointment to the
Ventnor City Police Department, Ventnor City Fire Department and Ventnor
City nonuniformed departments shall be qualified for appointment as
required by law, ordinance and civil service rules and regulations.
All applicants for appointment shall be Ventnor City residents and
must maintain continuous residency within Ventnor City from the announced
closing date of the Civil Service Commission’s examination up
to and including the date of the appointment.
[Added 8-25-1994 by Ord. No. 9413; amended 6-20-2013 by Ord. No.
2013-15]
B.
The City of Ventnor City hereinafter creates a policy,
which policy shall be effective immediately upon the passage of this
chapter, to provide a preference to each and every job classification
within the City of Ventnor City to its residents in order to promote
a continuing opportunity for its residents to remain in the employ
of the City of Ventnor City and to remain within its boundaries.
[Added 6-20-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-15[1]]
A.
Whenever
the City of Ventnor Board of Commissioners or the appointing authority
determines that there cannot be recruited a sufficient number of qualified
residents for available specific positions or employments, the City
of Ventnor shall advertise for other qualified applicants. The City
of Ventnor, or the hiring authority thereof, shall thereupon classify
all qualified applicants for such positions or employments so determined
in the following manner:
B.
The hiring
authority shall first appoint all those in Class 1 and those in each
succeeding class in the order above listed and shall appoint a person
or persons in any such class only to a position or positions, or employment
or employments, remaining after all qualified applicants in the preceding
class or classes have been appointed or have declined an offer of
appointment. The preference established by this section shall in no
way diminish, reduce or affect the preference granted pursuant to
any other provisions of law.
C.
The City
of Ventnor may require that any individual recruited and hired pursuant
to this subsection be required to become a bona fide resident of the
City of Ventnor.
D.
The Civil
Service Commission shall, upon any subsequent notice of the determination
of the City of Ventnor Board of Commissioners or the hiring authority
of the City of Ventnor wherein Title 11 (Civil Service) of the Revised
Statutes is operative that such preference schedule shall be applicable
for any specific position or employment, classify all applications
for such position or employment accordingly.
It shall be noted, by forwarding a copy of this
chapter to both the County of Atlantic and the State of New Jersey,
that this preference is in full force and effect and shall be binding,
not only upon the City, but also the county and the state as aforementioned.
