Civil Service Law § 59-d · Title A. Examinations and Eligible Lists
Public posting of employment opportunities
Text — Law content up to date as of September 11, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
*§ 59-d. Public posting of employment opportunities. The department shall make publicly available on its website all employment opportunities in the civil service of the state and information on obtaining employment with the state, including, but not limited to, vacancies in the competitive, non-competitive and labor jurisdictional classes, announcements for upcoming open-competitive and promotional examinations, test application instructions, and designations of which employment opportunities are eligible to be filled by individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities, including whether such positions may be filled on a full-time or part-time basis, pursuant to section fifty-five-b and section fifty-five-c, as amended by a chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-three, of this title. The president shall work in conjunction with the New York state department of labor and the governor's office of employee relations in order to effectuate the provisions of this section.
* NB Effective until December 31, 2027 OR thirty days after the commissioner of civil service certifies that the department's website is able to accommodate the amendments to section 59-d of the civil service law made by chapter 664 of 2025, whichever occurs earlier
* § 59-d. Public posting of employment opportunities. 1. For the purposes of this section, the term "municipality" shall mean a village, town, city, or county.
2. The department shall make publicly available on its website all employment opportunities in the civil service of the state and information on obtaining employment with the state, including, but not limited to, vacancies in the competitive, non-competitive and labor jurisdictional classes, announcements for upcoming open-competitive and promotional examinations, test application instructions, and designations of which employment opportunities are eligible to be filled by individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities, including whether such positions may be filled on a full-time or part-time basis, pursuant to section fifty-five-b and section fifty-five-c, as amended by a chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-three, of this title.
3. The department shall provide municipalities in the state with the ability to post municipal employment opportunities on the same website of the department under which state civil service positions are posted pursuant to subdivision two of this section, including all other relevant information as described under subdivision two of this section. Such municipal employment opportunities shall be posted in a format where job seekers may search by municipality and municipal employment position type.
4. The president shall work in conjunction with the New York state department of labor, the governor's office of employee relations, and municipalities seeking to post municipal employment positions pursuant to subdivision three of this section, in order to effectuate the provisions of this section.
* NB Effective December 31, 2027 OR thirty days after the commissioner of civil service certifies that the department's website is able to accommodate the amendments to section 59-d of the civil service law made by chapter 664 of 2025, whichever occurs earlier
Source of truth
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- Law content up to date as of September 11, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
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- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/CVS59-D
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- The Senate's note "Effective December 31, 2027 OR thirty days after the commissioner of civil service certifies that the department's website is able to accommodate the amendments to section 59-d of the civil service law made by chapter 664 of 2025, whichever occurs earlier": the later text is printed beside the text in force ("Effective until").
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