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N.J.A.C. 4A:4-4.9 Date of appointment

N.J.A.C. 4A:4-4.9, Date of appointment. An eligible shall not be appointed and begin work after the expiration date of the eligible list except: 1. When the eligible is on military leave, or, in t Full text with 1 recorded amendment, 2 citing decisions, cited by 1 other rule.

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

An eligible cannot be appointed and begin work after the eligible list has expired, and the three exceptions to that are narrow. Military leave is one, along with an approved leave of absence in the case of promotional appointments, and those people may begin work when they return to active service. A limited revival or a statutory extension of the list is the second, though no appointment may be made beyond the statutory extension date. The third covers a certification made just before the list expires, where both the date of appointment and the date the eligible begins work have to fall no later than the disposition due date.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:4-4.9. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

(a) An eligible shall not be appointed and begin work after the expiration date of the eligible list except: #

1. When the eligible is on military leave, or, in the case of promotional appointments, is on an approved leave of absence. Persons returning from military leave or an approved leave of absence may begin work upon their return to active service. #

2. When there is limited revival or statutory extension of an employment list, except that no appointment shall be made beyond the statutory extension date; or #

3. When the certification is made just prior to the expiration of the eligible list, in which case the date of appointment and the date the eligible begins work shall be no later than the disposition due date. #

Amendment history

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

  1. AmendedR.1996 d.98
    27 N.J.R. 4049(a); 28 N.J.R. 1201(b)

How this rule has been applied

2 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:4-4.9. 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 (2)
  • In re M.A.S., Police Officer (S9999R), City of Jersey City, CSC Docket No. 2017-22202018 N.J. CSC LEXIS 669Docket 2017-2220
  • In re M.D., Police Officer (S9999R), Town of Morristown, CSC Docket No. 2017-6382017 N.J. CSC LEXIS 438Docket 2017-638

Rules that point here

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