(1) The procedures for selection for appointment to the City service shall be impartial, of a practical nature, and shall relate to those matters which fairly test the relative merit, fitness and ability of the persons examined to discharge the duties and responsibilities of the class to which they seek appointment. In any examination in which the director deems it desirable to do so, the director may include a preliminary qualifying standard. No question in any examination shall be contrary to law.

(2) As part of the selection procedure for full-time regular positions, each newly hired employee shall complete a one (1) year probation period to determine fitness for the position. Such employee may be terminated from the City service at any time during this period, and is not eligible to invoke the hearing procedure set forth in Section 4.02.040, Provo City Code. Upon successful completion of the probationary period, the employee shall be granted full-time regular status.