What Determines the Life of an Eligible List?
LIFE OF ELIGIBLE LISTS
Civil Service Rules & Regulations, Article IV, Sec. 26.
Eligible lists derived from
open-competitive examinations shall generally expire
one year
from their established effective dates.
Promotional eligible lists shall expire after
two years
. After conducting a poll of candidates on an eligible list for continued interest in City employment and determining the list's utility, an eligible list derived from an open-competitive examination may, subject to Commission review, be either reduced or extended by the Executive Director; however, the total life of such list shall not exceed three years.
Eligible lists for those classifications for which the
continuous testing process is used may expire
six months
from their effective dates.
Rev August 21, 2001
