N.J.A.C. 4A:3-3.4 Title appropriate to duties performed
N.J.A.C. 4A:3-3.4, Title appropriate to duties performed. person shall be appointed or employed under a title not appropriate to the duties to be performed nor assigned to perform duties other than those properly pe Full text with 14 citing decisions.
Current through New Jersey Register, Vol. 58 No. 14, July 20, 2026. Reviewed as of July 26, 2026.
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In plain language
One sentence, running in both directions. Nobody may be appointed or employed under a title that does not fit the duties to be performed, and nobody holding a title may be assigned duties that do not properly pertain to it, unless law or these rules provide otherwise. That second half is the out-of-title work prohibition, and it is the substantive rule that a position review request enforces. The section states the prohibition and nothing else. It attaches no remedy, no back pay and no deadline, so anyone acting on a violation is working from the position review request and appeal procedure rather than from this text.
Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-3.4. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.
No person shall be appointed or employed under a title not appropriate to the duties to be performed nor assigned to perform duties other than those properly pertaining to the assigned title which the employee holds, unless otherwise provided by law or these rules.
How this rule has been applied
14 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:3-3.4. The list below is citations to those decisions, not the decisions. We have not written summaries for this section. A citation with no summary is deliberate: we do not paraphrase a decision we have not read. Nothing here is legal advice.
Federal courts (1)
- Ferraro v. City of Long Branch, C.A.3 (N.J.)199423 F.3d 803
Civil Service Commission final determinations (13)
- In re Collins, Office of Information Tech., CSC Docket No. 2022-5382021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 490Docket 2022-538
- In re Martorano, et. al., Bergen Cnty. Sheriff, CSC Docket Nos. 2022-428, et. al. (Consolidated)2021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 439Docket 2022-428
- In re Wartenberg, Supervisor Information Techn. Help Desk (PS2706K), Dep't of Human Servs., CSC Docket No. 2021-16812021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 330Docket 2021-1681
- In re Gifford, Mgmt. Specialist (M0561B), Newark, CSC Docket No. 2021-8252021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 118Docket 2021-825
- In re Alvarado, Mgmt. Specialist (M0561B) Newark Sch. Dist., CSC Docket No. 2021-8182021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 111Docket 2021-818
- In re Policemen's Benevolent Ass'n, Sheriff's Officers of Union Cnty., Local Number 108, Inc., Union Cnty. Sheriff, CSC Docket No. 2021-22020 N.J. CSC LEXIS 431Docket 2021-2
- In re Esochaghi, Assistant Planner, Atlantic Cnty., CSC Docket No. 2019-36202019 N.J. CSC LEXIS 1147Docket 2019-3620
- In re Newark Sch. Dist., CSC Docket No. 2018-2792017 N.J. CSC LEXIS 586Docket 2018-279
- In re Taylor, Florence Twp., CSC Docket No. 2016-22092017 N.J. CSC LEXIS 444Docket 2016-2209
- In re Dioses, et al., Supervisor 1 MVC (PS3710T), Motor Vehicle Comm'n, CSC Docket No. 2013-27912013 N.J. CSC LEXIS 952Docket 2013-2791
- In re Substance Abuse Evaluator, Judiciary, CSC Dkt. No. 2013-34262013 N.J. CSC LEXIS 630
- In re Dwayne Patrick, City of East Orange, CSC Dkt. No. 2013-30452013 N.J. CSC LEXIS 457
- Valluzzi v. Bergen County10 N.J.A.R. 89
Elsewhere in Classification
- 4A:3-3.1 Classification of positions
- 4A:3-3.2 Establishment of classification plans
- 4A:3-3.2A (Reserved)
- 4A:3-3.3 Administration of classification plans
- 4A:3-3.5 Reclassification of positions
- 4A:3-3.6 New titles
- 4A:3-3.7 Trainee, apprentice, recruit, and intern titles
- 4A:3-3.7A Police Assistant title: local service
- 4A:3-3.7B Correctional Police Officer Apprentice title: State service
- 4A:3-3.8 Intermittent titles
- 4A:3-3.9 Position review request and appeal procedure