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N.J.A.C. 4A:4-1.3 Unclassified appointments

N.J.A.C. 4A:4-1.3, Unclassified appointments. An unclassified appointment may be made to any title or position allocated to the unclassified service by statute or the Civil Service Commission. (b) The p Full text with 1 recorded amendment, 3 citing decisions, cited by 1 other rule.

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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

Forty four words, and the second sentence is the one that matters: the permanent appointment rights of Title 11A do not apply to unclassified appointments. An unclassified appointment may be made to any title or position that statute or the Commission has allocated to the unclassified service. Holding one means the tenure protections that run through the rest of this title are simply not available, which is why the classified and unclassified distinction decides so much elsewhere on this site. Whether a given title is unclassified is a classification question answered in Chapter 3, not something an appointing authority decides case by case.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:4-1.3. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

(a) An unclassified appointment may be made to any title or position allocated to the unclassified service by statute or the Civil Service Commission. #

(b) The permanent appointment rights of Title 11A, New Jersey Statutes, are not applicable to unclassified appointments. See N.J.A.C. 4A:3. #

Amendment history

Rule numbers, effective dates and New Jersey Register citations as published. 1 recorded change.

  1. AmendedR.2017 d.142
    49 N.J.R. 492(a); 49 N.J.R. 2239(a)

How this rule has been applied

3 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:4-1.3. 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.

New Jersey Supreme Court (1)
  • 62 N.J. 302; 301 A.2d 1411973
Appellate Division (1)
  • 149 N.J.Super. 364; 373 A.2d 1019
Civil Service Commission final determinations (1)
  • In re Sacchinelli, Bergen Cnty., CSC Dkt. No. 2015-2146

Commission decisions citing 4A:4-1.3

3 decisions of the Civil Service Commission since January 16, 2019 cite this section (granted 2, denied 1, as the minutes record the outcome). The newest:

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