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N.J.A.C. 4A:4-7.9 Resignation/new appointment

N.J.A.C. 4A:4-7.9, Resignation/new appointment. A permanent employee who is appointed from an open competitive list to a title in a different organizational unit within the same governmental jurisdiction Full text with 2 recorded amendments, 1 citing decision, cited by 3 other rules.

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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

Taking a job elsewhere in your own jurisdiction off an open competitive list is treated as a resignation from the title you held permanently. That is the whole of this section and it is the part people do not expect: the move is not a transfer, so permanent status in the old title ends. What survives is accumulated service, for promotional eligibility and scoring, for sick and vacation leave entitlements, for seniority in a layoff, and in State service for administrative leave entitlements. You may ask to be placed on the regular reemployment list for the previous title. And the new appointing authority has to tell you that your permanent status is being resigned before the new appointment, not after it.

Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:4-7.9. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.

(a) A permanent employee who is appointed from an open competitive list to a title in a different organizational unit within the same governmental jurisdiction shall be considered to have resigned from the previous permanent title. #

1. Accumulated service for purposes of promotional eligibility and scoring, determining sick and vacation leave entitlements and seniority in layoffs, and in State service only, administrative leave entitlements, shall be retained. #

2. See N.J.A.C. 4A:3-4.4(b) for salary placement in State service. #

(b) The employee may request placement on the regular reemployment list for the previous title. #

(c) The new appointing authority shall inform the employee of his or her effective resignation of permanent status prior to the employee's new appointment. #

Amendment history

Rule numbers, effective dates and New Jersey Register citations as published. 2 recorded changes.

  1. AmendedR.2009 d.95
    40 N.J.R. 5891(a); 41 N.J.R. 1206(a)
  2. AmendedR.1993 d.270
    25 N.J.R. 1085(b); 25 N.J.R. 2509(a)

How this rule has been applied

1 decision has cited N.J.A.C. 4A:4-7.9. 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 (1)
  • In re Plescia, Dep't of Human Servs., CSC Docket No. 2017-1912017 N.J. CSC LEXIS 463Docket 2017-191

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