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 Cincinnati
 Code of Ordinances
 CHARTER of the CITY OF CINCINNATI
 Article V. CIVIL SERVICE

  Section 3.  

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  • Except as provided in this charter, the council shall have no power to modify the provisions of the laws of the state of Ohio now or hereafter in effect relating to the civil service and civil service commissions. This shall include the provision of veteran preferences as defined and provided pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 124 or its successor. The civil service commission shall award to any soldier, sailor, marine, coast guardsman, member of the auxiliary corps as established by congress, member of the army nurse corps or navy nurse corps, or red cross nurse who has served in the army, navy, or hospital service of the United States and such military service as is designated by congress, who can provide satisfactory documentation at the time established by the city manager or the city manager's designee, which shall be no earlier than the day before an eligibility list is approved by the civil service commission, that such veteran has been honorably discharged therefrom, or transferred to the reserve with evidence of satisfactory service, an examination credit of five (5) points added to their passing score on entry level examinations for the classified service of the city of Cincinnati. An examination credit of ten (10) points shall be added to the passing score of "disabled veterans," as defined in the Ohio Revised Code. No fee or other assessment, however, shall be charged applicants for examinations for positions under the civil service.

    The civil service commission shall award an examination credit of five (5) points in entry level examinations for the classified service in the city of Cincinnati fire or police departments to any individual who has successfully graduated from a fire or police program conducted at a public safety academy to be established by Cincinnati Public Schools in collaboration with the City of Cincinnati that has a public safety curriculum approved by the city of Cincinnati administration and its fire and/or police administration. A person shall receive a maximum of ten (10) points on any entry level examination for positions under the civil service through a combination of military service examination credit and public safety academy graduate credit. No fee or other assessment shall be charged applicants for examinations for positions under the civil service.

    The city civil service shall be divided into the classified service and the unclassified service. In addition to the positions that comprise the unclassified service under state civil service law, the unclassified service of the city shall include department and division heads, deputies or assistants to department heads, and professional housing and economic development positions. All other positions shall be in the classified service. A person who on the date of enactment of this section holds a position in the classified civil service which becomes unclassified under this section shall be deemed to hold a position in the classified civil service until he or she vacates the position, after which time the position shall be filled as an unclassified position.

(Amended by Ord. No. 238-2001, eff. Nov. 6, 2001; election of Nov. 6, 2001; amended by Emer. Ord. No. 288-2015, eff. Nov. 3, 2015; election of Nov. 3, 2015; Emer. Ord. No. 230-2018, eff. Aug. 1, 2018; election of Nov. 6, 2018; Emer. Ord. No. 252-2018, eff. Aug. 1, 2018; election of Nov. 6, 2018)