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N.J.A.C. 4A:4-4.10 Certification of additional eligibles

N.J.A.C. 4A:4-4.10, Certification of additional eligibles. If, after accepting employment, an eligible cannot begin work within three weeks or such other reasonable time as specified by the appointing authority, the app Full text with 1 recorded amendment, 1 citing decision.

Selection and Appointment · Certification From Eligible Lists

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

Accepting the job is not quite the last step. Where an eligible who has accepted employment cannot begin work within three weeks, or within such other reasonable time as the appointing authority specifies, the appointing authority may consider that eligible unavailable and request that Commission staff certify additional names. What this section authorises is adding names to the certification. Coming off the list altogether is a separate question handled by the removal rule, which treats inability, unavailability or refusal to accept appointment as its own cause.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:4-4.10. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

If, after accepting employment, an eligible cannot begin work within three weeks or such other reasonable time as specified by the appointing authority, the appointing authority may consider the eligible unavailable and request that appropriate Commission staff certify additional names.

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

1 decision has cited N.J.A.C. 4A:4-4.10. 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.

Civil Service Commission final determinations (1)
  • In re Farrell, Supervising Classification Officer, Dep't of Corrs., CSC Docket No. 2019-11422019 N.J. CSC LEXIS 525Docket 2019-1142

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