Section 81-B. Placement rosters in the state service; certification and appointment therefrom

1. Establishment  of  placement  rosters  in  the  state  service;  general provisions.  The head of any department, office
  or institution from which an employee in the  state  service  is  to  be
  suspended or demoted in accordance with the provisions of section eighty
  or  eighty-a  of this article, shall, no later than the date on which he
  or she furnishes the state civil service department  with  the  employee
  information  required  pursuant  to section eighty-one-a of this article
  for purposes of establishing reemployment  rosters,  furnish  the  state
  civil  service department with a statement showing such employee's name,
  title or position, date of appointment, and the anticipated date of  and
  reason  for  suspension or demotion. Upon receiving such information, it
  shall be the duty of the department forthwith to place the name of  such
  employee upon a placement roster for filling vacancies in the same title
  or  in  any  comparable position as determined by the department, except
  that  employees   suspended   or   demoted   from   positions   in   the
  non-competitive and labor classes may not be certified to fill vacancies
  in  the competitive class.  Such placement roster shall be certified for
  filling a vacancy in any such position before certification is made from
  any other list, including a promotion eligible list, but not prior to  a
  preferred  list or a reemployment roster. Eligibility for appointment of
  an employee whose name  appears  on  any  such  placement  roster  shall
  terminate  at  such  time  as  the  employee  is suspended or demoted in
  accordance with the provisions of section eighty  or  eighty-a  of  this
  article.    Upon  such employee's suspension or demotion, the department
  shall place the name of such employee  upon  a  preferred  list,  and  a
  reemployment roster as appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of
  sections eighty-one and eighty-one-a of this article.
    2.  Order of certification of names from a placement roster. The names
  of employees on a placement roster shall  be  certified  therefrom  with
  equal ranking for appointment.
    3.  Probationary  term. All appointments from a placement roster shall
  require completion of a  probationary  term  in  accordance  with  rules
  promulgated  by  the  commission  pursuant to subdivision two of section
  sixty-three of this chapter.
    4. Effect of appointment or failure or refusal to accept  appointment.
  The  commission  shall  adopt  rules providing for the relinquishment of
  eligibility for appointment upon appointment or upon failure or  refusal
  to accept appointment from a placement roster.
    5.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of this chapter, any employee
  may voluntarily remove his or  her  name  from  a  placement  roster  by
  application to the department.