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• • <br /> Appendix C • <br /> Page 7 <br /> EXAMINATIONS <br /> 1400 Competition <br /> • <br /> Except as provided in rule 1404 and rule 1408, all examinations shall be competitive • • <br /> and shall be designed to determine the qualifications, fitness, and ability of competitors. to <br /> perform the duties of the class for which the examination is being given. Examinations may . <br /> be v,Titten, oral, performance, physical, or a combination thereof. They may take into account • <br /> • such factors as experience, education, aptitude, capacity, knowledge, skill character, physical <br /> fitness, or any other factor, quality, or attribute, including moral character and reputation, <br /> that may determine the relative fitness of a competitor. <br /> 1404 Suspension of Competition <br /> In the case of a vacancy requiring peculiar and exceptional qualifications of a scientific, <br /> professional, or expert character, upon satisfactory evidence adduced at a public hearing that <br /> competition is impracticable and that the position can best be filled by the selection of a person <br /> of recognized attainments, the Commission may order the competitive examination suspended, <br /> but no such suspension shall be general in its application to such position, and all such cases <br /> of suspension of competition shall be reported by the Commission, together with the reasons <br /> therefor. to the Board of Supervisors. <br /> 140S Qualifying Examinations <br /> At the discretion of the Commission, noncompetitive qualifying examinations may be <br /> given to an incumbent with tenure in a position which is upgraded as a result of <br /> reclassification or reallocation. An incumbent who qualifies in such examination shall be <br /> certified by the Commission as eligible to fill the upgraded position subject to serving the <br /> probationary period required for the class to which the position has been reallocated. <br /> 1412 Preuaration of Examinations <br /> • <br /> All examinations shall be scheduled, prepared. and administered under the direction . <br /> of the director. He may secure the assistance of persons of recognized attainments in a given <br /> field to assist in the preparation or conduct of examinations, in the review of examination <br /> questions and keys, or in the correction of essay questions, or he may contract 1,vith public or <br /> private professional agencies for such service. <br /> 1.116 Subiect Matter Portion <br /> The subject matter portion of an examination may consist of written, oral, performance, <br /> or physical tests, or any combination thereof, and may include any test of knowledge, skill, <br /> capacity, intelligence, aptitude, or of any other factor which in the opinion of the director will <br /> be an aid in evaluating the relative fitness and ability of candidates as well as their capacity <br /> to develop. Where possession of a license, issued following appropriate examination by a <br /> legally constituted body of the State of California, is a requirement for the class, the <br /> Commission may order that possession of such license shall qualify applicants in the subject <br /> matter portion of the examination for such class and shall so specify on the examination <br /> announcement. • <br /> • 202 FIRE -36 <br />