123:1-15-01 Eligible lists.

(A) The period of eligibility for an applicant on an eligible list shall be one year from the date the name was placed on the list, but the director of administrative services may, in his discretion, prior to the date of expiration of eligibility, extend the period of eligibility for the list, provided the total period of eligibility shall not exceed two years.

(B) The director may consolidate two or more eligible lists of the same classification by rearranging of eligibles named therein, according to their grades.

(C) When a promotional and an open-competitive list are combined, the promotional list shall be placed ahead of the open-competitive list.

(D) When for any reason the director shall hold an examination to create an eligible list for any classification while there are eligibles on any existing list for such classification and any person on such existing list takes such examination, he or she shall be given the standing on such combined list to which the higher grade received in either examination shall entitle him or her during the continuance of the first list, and thereafter he or she shall take rank in accordance with the grade received in the subsequent examination.

(E) At the discretion of the director, persons qualifying on an examination for a given classification may be placed on eligible lists for one or more lower classifications in the same class series. The adoption of such additional placement shall be extended to all eligibles on the list. Appointment from any list shall remove the eligibles’ names from all lists on which they were placed under this rule.

(F) Whenever in the judgment of the director action is deemed advisable on account of errors or fraud in connection with any examination, a re-examination of applicants shall be ordered and the eligible list shall be amended in accordance with results of such re-examination. After an eligible list is prepared and posted it shall not be revoked except upon written notice to all the eligibles. An appointment made from an eligible list shall be considered valid even if fraud or error is discovered after the appointment has been made, provided the person appointed was not involved in such fraud or error.

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 10/20/2005 and 10/20/2010

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 124.09(A)

Rule Amplifies: 124.26

Prior Effective Dates: 1/9/76, 11/19/81, 11/10/96, 11/14/00