New York Laws
Title A - Examinations and Eligible Lists
55-C - Employment of Veterans With Disabilities by the State.

* § 55-c. Employment of veterans with disabilities by the state.
1. The commission may determine up to five hundred positions with duties
such as can be performed by disabled veterans and veterans with
disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform satisfactorily
the duties of any such position. Upon such determination, the said
positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class, and may be
filled only by veterans of the armed forces of the United States who
served therein during time of war, as defined in paragraph (c) of
subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter, and (a) who
establish by appropriate documentary evidence that they are disabled
veterans, as defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section
eighty-five of this chapter, or (b) by those veterans, as defined in
paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter,
who shall have been certified by the employee health service of the
department as being disabled but capable of performing the duties of
said positions. Priority in certification and referral of both such
disabled veterans and certified disabled but capable veterans shall be
given to those veterans who received a wound in combat, as documented by
the awarding of the purple heart, as authorized by the United States
department of defense, and that wound is the cause of, or a
substantially contributing factor to, the degree of impairment, who
otherwise meet the requirements of this section. The number of veterans
appointed pursuant to this section shall not exceed five hundred.

2. Those employees hired under subdivision one of this section, shall
be afforded the same opportunity to take promotional examinations as
provided to employees in the competitive class.

3. When posting jobs that fall under the provisions of this section,
all state agencies shall prominently identify on such posting that such
job is "55-c Eligible".

* NB There are 2 § 55-c's

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