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Statutes > Alabama > Title45 > Chapter8A > 45-8A-71_10Section 45-8A-71.10
Civil service board - Register of persons eligible; examinations; vacancies.
The board shall make and keep a register of all persons eligible and available for appointment to each class of position in the service of the city, ranked according to ability. No examination shall be given and no register kept for positions to be filled by persons designated by the board as common laborers. Layoffs available for re-employment shall be placed at the head of the proper present and subsequent eligible registers in the inverse order of their terminations. Employees who voluntarily terminate their services may be granted re-employment status upon proper eligible registers under the circumstances and in the manner as may be provided for in the board's rules and regulations, subject to stipulations of this section concerning layoffs. Persons desiring appointment may file applications with the board, and the board shall, from time to time, conduct examinations to test the ability of the applicants. All qualified applicants shall be examined, and the examinations shall be public, competitive, and subject to the limitations specified by the board as to age, residence, health, height, weight, habits, moral character, and other factors pertinent to the ability to discharge the duties of the position. The civil service board shall fill vacancies in the classified service, insofar as practicable, by promotions from among regular employees holding positions in the classified service. If the board decides to fill a vacancy within the classified service, it shall determine the regular employees holding the classified positions in the department or departments eligible to take the examination. Examinations shall be practical in character and shall relate to those matters which test the ability of the person examined to discharge intelligently the duties of the position for which he or she applies. In no case shall an appointment be made from an eligible register which is more than one year old, and no eligible register shall be the result of more than one examination.
(Act 93-558, p. 917, §11.)