Section 2. Definitions

When used in this chapter.
    1. The  term  "commission" or "state commission" means the state civil
  service commission;
    2. The term "president" means the president of the state civil service
  commission;
    3. The term "department" or "civil service department" means the state
  department of civil service, unless otherwise expressly stated or unless
  the context requires a different meaning;
    4.  The  term  "municipal  commission"  or  "municipal  civil  service
  commission"  means  the civil service commission of a city, of a county,
  or of a suburban town governed pursuant to article three-A of  the  town
  law  and  having a population of at least fifty thousand as shown in the
  most recent decennial federal census or special population census  taken
  pursuant  to  section  twenty  of  the  general  municipal  law,  or the
  personnel officer of a city, of a county, or of such a suburban town, or
  a regional civil service commission or a regional personnel officer,  as
  the case may be, unless otherwise expressly stated or unless the context
  requires a different meaning;
    5.  The  "civil  service" of the state of New York or any of its civil
  divisions includes all offices and positions in the service of the state
  or of such civil divisions, except such offices  and  positions  in  the
  militia  and the military departments as are or may be created under the
  provisions of article twelve of the constitution;
    6. The "state service" shall include all offices and positions in  the
  civil service of the state;
    7.  The  "city service" shall include all offices and positions in the
  civil service of any city;
    8. The "service of a civil division" shall  include  all  offices  and
  positions  in the civil service of any subdivision of the state; and the
  term "civil division" shall include within its meaning a city;
    9. The term "appointing authority" or "appointing officer"  means  the
  officer,   commission  or  body  having  the  power  of  appointment  to
  subordinate positions;
    10. The term "jurisdictional classification" means the  assignment  of
  positions in the classified service to the competitive, non-competitive,
  exempt or labor classes;
    11.  The  term  "position  classification"  means a grouping together,
  under common and descriptive titles, of positions that are substantially
  similar in the  essential  character  and  scope  of  their  duties  and
  responsibilities and in the qualification requirements therefor;
    12.  The  term "board of supervisors" shall include within its meaning
  the  elective  governing  body  of  a  county  which  has  no  board  of
  supervisors.