When a qualified person is available on the personnel authority's displaced employee program list, a Career Service position shall not be filled except as provided in Chapter 8 of these regulations concerning priority placement categories and order of priority, and shall not be filled by the following:
Subsection 2430.1 of this section shall not apply when all qualified persons on the displaced employee program list decline or fail to respond to offers of reemployment.
In selecting from a displaced employee program list, preference shall be given to tenure group I employees over tenure group II employees.
A personnel authority may appoint a person not on the displaced employee program list or a person on the list with lower standing than others on the list only when it is necessary to obtain an employee for duties that cannot be taken over without undue interruption to the agency by a person on the list or a person on the list with higher standing than the person appointed.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 6, r. 6-B2430