N.Y. Civil Service Law Section 57
Continuous recruitment for certain positions

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or any other law, the civil service department or a municipal commission may establish a continuing eligible list for any class of positions for which it finds such lists appropriate. The civil service department may only establish continuing eligible lists for any class of positions filled through open competitive examination. Names of eligibles shall be inserted in such list from time to time as applicants are tested and found qualified in examinations held at such intervals as may be prescribed by the civil service department or municipal commission having jurisdiction. Such successive examinations shall, so far as practicable, be constructed and rated so as to be equivalent tests of the merit and fitness of candidates. The name of any candidate who passes any such examination and who is otherwise qualified shall be placed on the continuing eligible list in the rank corresponding to his or her final rating on such examination. The period of eligibility of successful candidates for certification and appointment from such continuing eligible list, as a result of any such examination, shall be fixed by the civil service department or municipal commission but, except as a list may reach an announced terminal date, such period shall not be less than one year; nor shall such period of eligibility exceed four years. Subject to such conditions and limitations as the civil service department or municipal commission may prescribe, a candidate may take more than one such examination; provided, however, that no such candidate shall be certified simultaneously with more than one rank on the continuing eligible list. With respect to any candidate who applies for and is granted additional credit in any such examination as a disabled or non-disabled veteran, and for the limited purpose of granting such additional credit, the eligible list shall be deemed to be established on the date on which his or her name is added thereto.

Source: Section 57 — Continuous recruitment for certain positions, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/CVS/57 (updated May 12, 2023; accessed Oct. 25, 2025).

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Examinations generally 50–A
Test validation boards 50–C
Discrimination based upon history of cancerous condition prohibited 51
Filling vacancies by open competitive examination 52
Promotion examinations 53
Noncitizen status 54
Age and educational requirements 55
Examination of blind or physically handicapped applicants 55–A
Employment of persons with disabilities by municipalities 55–B
Employment of persons with disabilities by the state 55–C
Employment of veterans with disabilities by the state 55–C*2
Acceptability of certain high school diplomas 56
Establishment and duration of eligible lists 57
Continuous recruitment for certain positions 58
Requirements for appointment of certain police officers 58–A
Requirements for provisional or permanent appointment of certain fire fighters 59
Placement of county sheriffs’ personnel in classified service 59–A
Placement of detectives and investigators in classified service 59–B
Promotions of supervisory personnel of the emergency medical service 59–C
State employment of persons and veterans with disabilities study 59–D
Public posting of employment opportunities

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N.Y. Civil Service Law Section 57 Continuous recruitment for certain positions

N.Y. Civil Service Law Section 57
Continuous recruitment for certain positions