2006 New York Code - Civil service appointments and promotions; veterans\' preferences and credits.

 
    § 6. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state and
  all of the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall
  be  made  according  to  merit  and fitness to be ascertained, as far as
  practicable, by examination which,  as  far  as  practicable,  shall  be
  competitive;  provided,  however, that any member of the armed forces of
  the United States who served therein in time of war,  and  who,  at  the
  time of such member's appointment or promotion, is a citizen or an alien
  lawfully  admitted  for  permanent  residence in the United States and a
  resident of this state and is honorably  discharged  or  released  under
  honorable  circumstances from such service, shall be entitled to receive
  five points additional credit in a competitive examination for  original
  appointment  and  two  and  one-half  points  additional  credit  in  an
  examination for promotion or, if such member was disabled in the  actual
  performance  of  duty  in  any  war,  is  receiving  disability payments
  therefor from the United States veterans administration, and his or  her
  disability is certified by such administration to be in existence at the
  time  of  application  for  appointment or promotion, he or she shall be
  entitled to receive  ten  points  additional  credit  in  a  competitive
  examination  for  original appointment and five points additional credit
  in an examination for promotion. Such additional credit shall  be  added
  to  the final earned rating of such member after he or she has qualified
  in an examination and shall be granted only at the time of establishment
  of an eligible list. No such member shall receive the additional  credit
  granted  by  this  section after he or she has received one appointment,
  either original entrance or promotion, from an eligible list on which he
  or she was allowed the additional credit granted by this section.