Section 55-C. Employment of veterans with disabilities by the state

1. The commission may determine up to five hundred positions with duties
  such as  can  be  performed  by  disabled  veterans  and  veterans  with
  disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform satisfactorily
  the  duties  of  any  such  position.  Upon such determination, the said
  positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class,  and  may  be
  filled  only  by  veterans  of the armed forces of the United States who
  served therein during time of  war,  as  defined  in  paragraph  (c)  of
  subdivision  one  of  section  eighty-five  of this chapter, and (a) who
  establish by appropriate documentary evidence  that  they  are  disabled
  veterans,  as  defined  in  paragraph  (b) of subdivision one of section
  eighty-five of this chapter, or (b) by those  veterans,  as  defined  in
  paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter,
  who  shall  have  been  certified  by the employee health service of the
  department as being disabled but capable of  performing  the  duties  of
  said  positions.    Priority  in certification and referral of both such
  disabled veterans and certified disabled but capable veterans  shall  be
  given to those veterans who received a wound in combat, as documented by
  the  awarding  of  the  purple heart, as authorized by the United States
  department  of  defense,  and  that  wound  is  the  cause  of,   or   a
  substantially  contributing  factor  to,  the  degree of impairment, who
  otherwise meet the requirements of this section. The number of  veterans
  appointed pursuant to this section shall not exceed five hundred.
    2.  Those employees hired under subdivision one of this section, shall
  be afforded the same opportunity to  take  promotional  examinations  as
  provided to employees in the competitive class.
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