State ex rel. Marshall v. Civil Service Commission

Columbus is a charter city, and the charter creates a Civil Service Commission. Section 149 of the charter empowers and directs the commission, among *229other things, to “prescribe, amend and enforce rules for the classified service,” including provisions for “the classification and standardization of all positions in the classified service,” “open competitive examinations in the competitive class,” “public notice * * * of the time and place of all competitive examinations” and “promotion based on competitive examinations.”

Pursuant to and in compliance with this charter provision, the commission…